À propos du pressoir à huile : de l'archéologie industrielle à l'histoire

Amouretti, Marie-Claire; Comet, Georges; Ney, Claude; Paillet, Jean-Louis

doi:10.3406/mefr.1984.1411

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“…3) have unchanged features from the Hellenistic to the modern age (Stradan, XVI century; Amouretti et al, 1984). These were utilized until a few decades ago in Sicily (Bianca, XIX century) and in Portugal until the XX century.…”

Section: Olive Oil Millstone Distribution and Sizementioning

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Millstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator

Presti

Antonioli

Auriemma

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tThe coasts of Italy still preserve several remnants of coastal quarries built in antiquity, that now provide insights into the intervening sea-level changes occurred during the last millennia. In this paper, we show and discuss a new class of sea level indicator consisting of millstones carved along the rocky coast of southern Italy since 2500 BP, that are currently submerged. They were extracted from beachrocks, sandstones or similar sedimentary rocks, easier for carving by ancient carving tools. Our study focuses on 10 coastal sites located at Capo d'Orlando, Avola, and Letojanni, in Sicily; Soverato, Tropea, and Capo dell'Armi, in Calabria; Castellabate, Palinuro, and Scario, in Campania; and Polignano San Vito, in Apulia.Unfortunately, only limited archaeological information is available for these anthropic structures. Scario, one of these millstone quarries discussed here, has been dated through independent archaeological remains, allowing us to restrict the exploitation age to the end of XVII century. Present day elevations of these coastal sites were obtained through geo-archaeological surveys calibrated using the nearest tidal stations, together with geomorphological and tectonic interpretations. Data were compared against the latest sea level predictions based on glacio-hydro-isostatic models. Our results allow proposal of the age-range of these millstone quarries and to estimate the intervening relative sea level changes since the time when they were carved.

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Section: Olive Oil Millstone Distribution and Sizementioning

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Millstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator

Presti

Antonioli

Auriemma

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Quaternary International

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“…Une gravure sur cuivre réalisée par Johannès Stradan (XVI e s.) montre une presse à vis utilisant des scourtins et une fosse de décantation (cf. Amouretti et alii 1984, fig. 1, p. 383).…”

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Les parfumeries en Campanie antique

Monteix

Brun²

2009

Artisanats Antiques D’Italie Et De Gaule

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Pendant ces dix dernières années, Maria Francesca a été une collaboratrice très proche et, bien plus que cela, une amie sur qui compter en toutes circonstances [JPB]. ** École française de Rome. Depuis bientôt dix ans que je viens travailler à Herculanum et Pompéi, il m'apparaît évident qu'aucune de mes recherches n'aurait été possible sans la gentillesse et la disponibilité de Maria Francesca. Puissent mes quelques remarques sur Herculanum atténuer une dette qui n'a cessé de croître d'année en année [NM].

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“…The higher figure almost certainly may be taken as the produce of a plant with more than one press. However, production of up to 10,000 kg per press per season is not unreasonable for the larger presses (Cowper 1899, 298-299;Amouretti et al 1984;Mattingly 1988) and the average will probably have been well above the level of the small scale pre-desert press. The total oil capacity for the area of the Gebel shown in Figure 3, with its 262 surviving presses, could have been in the order of 1,310,000-2,620,000 litres (assuming a capacity of c. 5,000-10,000 litres/press).…”

Section: (F) the Oil Yield For A Gebel Pressmentioning

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The Olive Boom. Oil Surpluses, Wealth and Power in Roman Tripolitania

Mattingly¹

1988

Libyan stud.

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This paper is a sequel to an earlier study of the archaeological evidence for olive oil production in Roman Tripolitania, and combines archaeological information on olive presses with the evidence for trade in Tripolitanian oil, as manifested by the identification of Tripolitanian containers (amphorae). Attention is drawn, in particular, to the apparent correspondence between conclusions made in respect of the settlement data and of the socio-economic significance of stamps on Tripolitanian amphorae. Both sets of data support the view that the urban elite of the region, and in particular that of Lepcis Magna, had control of a very considerable quantity of surplus oil production and that this constituted a major source of individual prosperity, in part manifested by the extravagant donations of public buildings. The notable wealth of the Lepcitanian aristocracy enabled increasing numbers from amongst it to participate at a high level in the central government of the Roman Empire as senators or equestrians. The culmination of this process was the elevation of Septimius Severus as the first African Emperor in AD 193. His reign brought clear short term advantages to his home town, but after his death and the assassination of both his sons by AD 217, the fortunes of the town changed for the worst. Under Severus the town had offered the Roman State a voluntary ‘tax’ in olive oil and this together with the absorption of much land into Imperial estates must have taken a significant amount of agricultural surplus out of local control. In an Appendix, some comments are made on the problems of attempting to quantify the scale of oil production, and some broad estimates are suggested.

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À propos du pressoir à huile : de l'archéologie industrielle à l'histoire

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Millstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator

Millstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator

Les parfumeries en Campanie antique

The Olive Boom. Oil Surpluses, Wealth and Power in Roman Tripolitania

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