The Adriatic communication area: functional structure of Roman imperial port cities and their facilities along the Italic and Dalmatian coasts.

公元9年奥古斯都建立达尔马提亚省后，海盗活动减少，许多意大利家庭扩展到亚得里亚海东部的港口城市和腹地。与当地精英一起，他们的经济活动为该地区的繁荣做出了重大贡献。在建立亚得里亚海通信区方面，有利的环境条件、成熟的技术诀窍以及与陆上贸易路线和腹地建立后勤联系的可能性，与区域和区域间的政治发展以及跨亚得里亚海的家庭联系一样重要。本项目在罗马帝国时期关于第勒尼安沿海港口的早期工作成果的基础上，试图分析和确定这些不同因素的相对重要性，以期解决亚得里亚海东部和西部沿海港口在区域和区域间贸易中发挥的作用。评估这些港口的经济效率的起点是研究它们的建筑、它们与城镇其余部分的基础设施整合以及周围地区资源的使用或获取。

After the establishment of the province of Dalmatia by Augustus in AD 9 and the decrease of piracy, many Italic families expanded into the port cities and the hinterland of the eastern Adriatic. In conjunction with local elites, their economic activities contributed significantly to the prosperity of the region. Favourable environmental conditions, established technological know-how and the possibility of logistical connections to terrestrial trade routes and the hinterland were just as important as regional and inter-regional political developments and trans-Adriatic family contacts in establishing an Adriatic communication area. Building on the results of our earlier work on Tyrrhenian coastal ports in the Roman Imperial period, the present project seeks to analyse and establish the relative importance of these different factors with a view to addressing the role that coastal ports in the east and west Adriatic played in regional and interregional trade. The starting point for assessing the economic efficiency of these ports is to study their architecture, their infrastructural integration into the remainder of the town and the use of or access to resources in the surrounding areas.