Jordi Perez Gonzalez

• Researcher
• Researcher at University of Girona

El comercio de perlas en la ciudad de Roma se atestigua por primera vez a inicios?del periodo imperial. Fue necesaria una amplia red comercial que posibilitase la extracci?n?de perlas desde lugares tan remotos como la India, el Mar Rojo, etc., para?poder distribuirlas en la capital. Comercio de lujo encargado en ?ltima instancia?de su venta al por...

The database on-line CEIPAC. A tool for the study of the ancient economy: the case of Hadrian's Wall (Abstract). The research group CEIPAC (Centro para el Estudio de la Interdependencia Provincial en la Antigüedad Clásica), University of Barcelona, was created in 1989 under the direction of Dr. José Remesal Rodríguez, in order to study the economi...

The article presents a methodology to analyze the Greek amphora epigraphy produced during the Roman Empire in its eastern part. The detailed information that appears as an abbreviated form in thousands of inscriptions distributed throughout the Roman territory is an essential element to understand the imperial socioeconomic dynamics. Here we presen...

Within the complex system that once formed part of the epigraphic ensemble that accompanied these amphorae, we highlight the particular study of the painted marks known as tituli picti in the delta position of the olive oil amphorae from Baetica, Dressel 20. Here we address a singular fact, only detectable through the visualization of large data se...

Mirar al interior. Dinámicas de circulación y consumo del vino layetano en Hispania Resumen: El desarrollo de la viticultura en el noreste de la provincia Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis a lo largo del siglo I a. C. se asocia a unas dinámicas de distribución muy importantes. La evidencia documental parecía indicar que la distribución de los vinos t...

One of the main goals proposed in the beginning of the EPNet Project- Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economics and Political Dynamics, was to implement different analytical tools for deepen in the knowledge of production and trade systems developed by ancient societies and their both links with the structure of propert...

Archaeology and Techne’ publishes papers resulting from the European project EPNet (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics). Various interdisciplinary research techniques and results are presented. The main goal of the EPNET project was to use formal tools to investigate existing hypotheses abou...

Uno de los trabajos más repetidos en cualquier investigación relacionada con el estudio de la cultura material y de su epigrafía suele ser el de la elaboración de gráficas y mapas de los datos analizados. Con ello se ofrece una visión general o detallada del conjunto de materiales recogidos, con la intención de observar similitudes o diferencias en...

The book was born with the aim of offering a space for reflection and debate on the forms of intellectual analysis and reaction developed by Roman society in relation to catastrophic phenomena, both those of natural origination and those derived from concrete human decision-making. The main interest was focused on understanding those moments in whi...

The book was born with the aim of offering a space for reflection and debate on the forms of intellectual analysis and reaction developed by Roman society in relation to catastrophic phenomena, both those of natural origination and those derived from concrete human decision-making. The main interest was focused on understanding those moments in whi...

The work presented here is the result of a five-year study of the sumptuary trade within a specific time and space. It starts at the end of the first century BC, when Augustus took the reins of Rome’s government, and spans until the first third of the third century AD, at the time of the Severan dynasty, when the presence of epigraphic samples (whi...

En el marco de la asignatura del grado de Arqueología de la Universidad de Barcelona se plantean una serie de actividades prácticas para dotar al alumnado de una serie de técnicas y conocimientos que puedan aplicar en futuros trabajos e investigaciones. Fue Antonio Aguilera, uno de los desarrolladores originales de la base de datos de epigrafía anf...

En los últimos años el interés sobre el comercio hacia Oriente ha incrementado el número de estudios relacionados con el tema. Estos trabajos ponen especial interés en conocer el funcionamiento de las relaciones intercontinentales en la Antigüedad. Cada vez son más los trabajos dedicados a conocer las diferentes vías de abastecimiento marítimas de...

The objective of this study is to identify, by means of the analysis of the graffiti ante cocturam on the Roman amphoras, the different processes of production which are registered in the amphorae workshops. The olive oil produced in the Baetica served massively to nourish the western provinces of Roman Empire for more than 300 years. The standardi...

The monograph book Rome and Iberia. Inspirations and Connections throughout History tries to fill a gap in the market of scientific publications, showing the connections between ancient Rome and the Iberian Peninsula. These relations still interest researchers representing various scientific disciplines, both in Poland and abroad. The book opens wi...

Relying on a corpus of epigraphic materials, this paper focuses on the formulae that were used by urban artisans and merchants specialized in the making and selling of jewels and other goods made of precious metals to name themselves

Tradicionalmente, las ánforas de aceite de oliva Dressel 20 se han fechado explícitamente a través de diversos medios, siendo los más comunes, el estudio de la epigrafía asociada: sellos, titulus pictus o grafito, el análisis tipológico del objeto o el contexto arqueológico. En el presente trabajo, proponemos nuevas dataciones para algunas de los s...

Greco-Roman culture classified a great variety of gems. Authors such as Theophrastus, Plutarch and Pliny the Elder dealt with the subject. To know which gems were most highly valued in ancient Rome, it is essential to consult book 37 of Pliny the Elder. Book 37 of Pliny’s Natural History is one of the few accounts on precious stones, gems and amber...

This paper focuses on Dressel 20 stamps found on the Tyne-Solway isthmus and Hadrian’s Wall from the fi rst to the fourth century AD. The aim is to describe olive oil imports to the limes of Britannia by focusing on the distribution of stamps along the wall, their location and the most common stamp dies. This research also provides an accurate anal...

Next 2019 will be ten years since the publication of the book "La economía de la Mauretania Tingitana (s. I-III d.C.). Aceite, vino y salazones" (Pons 2009). There we discuss the economy of the province, emphasizing the peculiarities of its food supply (imports and exports). Since then, both the scientific production of the province, with the inclu...

La excavación del monte Testaccio es particular, por cuanto no se encuentra tierra ni estratos bien definidos, sino solamente ánforas y más ánforas donde sólo se puede excavar creando un sistema artificial, que nosotros hemos establecido dividiendo los sondeos en paquetes de 1m. cuadrado del que extraemos los materiales de 20 en 20 cms. Dado que en...

The creation of the Roman Empire promoted the connectivity of a vast area around the Mediterranean sea. Mobility and trade flourished over the Roman provinces as massive amounts of goods were shipped over thousands of kilometres through sea, rivers and road networks. Several works have explored these dynamics of interaction in specific case studies...

The present work offers an overview of the world of perfumes and unguents in Early Empire period. In order to do this, we first analyzed the methods and techniques used for the production of unguents and, second, the role played by the artisans dedicated to the perfume trade in Rome, the unguentarii. We emphasize these characters first, as individu...

The present work aims, firstly, to analyze the changes in the commercial topography of the city of Rome in classical times and second to discuss surroundings of the emergence of new avenues of luxury character. The Roman expansion by the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the republican period allowed to reaffirm Rome over the rest of the cities...

The Italic Peninsula never stood out in antiquity as a rich gold territory. The subsequent Rome's expansion outside Italy with the conquests of the gold zones of Hispania and Dacia made it possible to directly control the gold resources of these territories. The conquest of the Spanish northeast by Augustus (26-19 BC) gave rise to an authentic unpr...

El presente estudio además de analizar cuáles fueron las principales vías de aprovisionamiento de los productos de carácter suntuario más relevantes en los mercados romanos, pretende ofrecer al lector un nuevo escenario para el debate mediante la incorporación de las teorías de redes a un tema ya de por sí bastante prolífico: el comercio de product...

The trade networks of the Roman Empire are among the most intensively researched large-scale market systems in antiquity, yet there is no consensus on the economic structure behind this vast network. The difficulty arises from data fragmentation and the lack of formal analytical methods. Here, the authors present a Bayesian analysis quantifying the...

The work analyses the production and marketing of purple in Roman times. The analysis of merchants related to the sale of purple, purpurarii, and merchants of the best fabrics and dresses, vestiarii, allow access to visitors were the characters involved with the making and marketing of clothing and fabrics in the Metropolis. The fame of certain col...

El presente trabajo está dedicado a profundizar entorno a las relaciones económicas y sociales establecidas entre las diversas provincias del Imperio Romano. Con el fin de conocer el rol que jugó la provincia Baetica dentro de la administración romana, y de las políticas económicas aquí desempeñadas, es necesario un mayor conocimiento de la producc...

El presente estudio tiene como objeto analizar el canal que un día unió el Nilo con el Mar Rojo. El dominio del Nilo a través de un canal artificial posibilitó a los egipcios usar el agua como un motor de movilidad para un mayor tráfico de productos y personas entre el delta del río y el Golfo de Suez. Al margen de su uso para irrigar el territorio...

Visual analysis of the epigraphy of a sumptuous character in the Roman Empire. https://public.tableau.com/profile/jordi2068#!/vizhome/luxusall05allg/Dashboard1

Una mirada al pasado reciente / A glance at our recent past L'instrumentum inscriptum da curiosità antiquaria a fonte per la storia economica e sociale del mondo romano. (Alfredo Buonopane) Gli scavi a Testaccio: porto fluviale, Porticus Aemila, horrea, Monte Testaccio (Renato Sebastiani) La contribución del CEIPAC a la historia económica del Imper...

El grupo de investigación CEIPAC (Centro para el Estudio de la Interdependencia Provincial en la Antigüedad Clásica) de la Universidad de Barcelona, fue creado en el año 1990 con la finalidad de estudiar las relaciones económicas y sociales establecidas entre las diversas provincias del Imperio Romano. En los últimos años, coordina un amplio progra...

The exchange of luxury goods may be regarded as Europe’s first complex trade network, which bestows an interprovincial and transmaritime character to these connections. The main purpose of this study is to look at the existence of intermediary hubs between very distant territories such as Rome, India and China. In 1967, Stanley Milgram conducted a...