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Maritime trade in the Pre-Roman Period in the Eastern Adriatic: a preliminary report on a ceramic and numismatic evidence in Liburnia

The period from the 4th to the 1st c. BC on the eastern Adriatic is marked by the rise of commercial traffic and intensified relations with Hellenised parts of the Mediterranean. This trade exchange is mainly conducted by sea on local, regional and wider Mediterranean scope. There is no ample evidence in ancient literary sources about maritime affairs, so our main source of information is archaeology, study of shipwrecks, ports, maritime sanctuaries, inscriptions and movable finds like amphorae, pottery and coins. The aim of this contribution is to give an overview of the present state of research on ceramic and numismatic evidence in the territory of Liburnia in order to better understand the problems of maritime trade in the Adriatic region during the Hellenistic period 1. In this period it is possible to trace the processes of growing acculturation as a result of continuous strengthening of relations with the Hellenistic world. The first official relations with the Romans were established in the last third of the 2nd century BC, but numismatic finds suggest earlier contacts at least from the 3rd c. BC, probably at the same time when the Romans conquered the Adriatic coast of Italy. These are only preliminary results but even they can give us a fresh perspective on the subject.

Maritime trade ; Pre-Roman Period ; ceramic ; numismatic ; Liburnia

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