Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterraneanacts of the International Colloquium at the Danish Institute at Athensredigeret af John Lund & Jonas Eiring

Transport amphorae were chosen as the theme of this colloquium because of their great petential for eucidating ancient economic history. As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us "not with an index of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the movement of certain foodstuffs which were of considerable economic importance.....