From Portus to Rome: A few Remarks on Corn Supply of the Eternal City and Administrators of Portus and the Banks of the Tiber in Late Antiquity
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https://doi.org/10.12775/BPMH.2019.007Keywords
taxes in kind, river transportation, the ports of Rome, guilds of the Tiber sailors, administration of the riverAbstract
The Tiber river was one of the most important routes of transportation to Rome. Ships with grain came from Africa to Ostia and, especially in the late antiquity, to Portus Uterque. At least some of the grain was transported from Portus to the Roman emporium which was the task of various gilds of the Tiber sailors. The administration of the river existed since the beginnings of the High Empire. Translated by Jacek Wełniak
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