Historical, archaeological, and science based investigations on the lead production in the Roman Empire

该研究项目旨在更深入地了解金属生产和分销领域的古代经济史。调查对象是以钢锭形式存在的软金属铅，作为直接采矿产品。在罗马时期，铅是一种广泛交易的商品。它在不同省份的矿区大规模生产，作为实心的钢锭供应给罗马帝国的所有省份。尽管铅很重要，但在古典研究和考古冶金学中，铅一直被忽视。该项目旨在填补这一空白，并对罗马采矿作业、金属开采结构、铅的分布和金属贸易的组织产生新的见解。为此，将金石学、考古学和冶金学研究结合起来，对所有罗马铅锭进行全面的编纂是至关重要的。

The research project is aimed at gaining deeper insight into the ancient economic history in the field of metal production and distribution. Object of investigation is the soft metal lead in the form of ingots as direct mining products. In the Roman period lead was a widely traded commodity. Produced on a large scale in mining areas of different provinces it was supplied as solid ingots to all provinces of the Roman Empire. Despite its importance, in classical studies and archaeometallurgy lead has been hitherto rather neglected. The project is intended to fill this gap and develop new insights into Roman mining operations, structures of metal extraction, the distribution of lead, the organization of the metal trade. For this the comprehensive compilation of all Roman lead ingots is of fundamental importance combining epigraphic, archaeological and metallurgical studies.