Salt in Roman Dacia

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Researches on salt production and salt industry in the Roman Empire

2. Researches on salt archaeology and salt history in Roman Dacia

I. Salt exploitation in Roman Dacia: archaeological evidence

1. Salt exploitation in pre-Roman period

2. Salt exploitation in Roman period

3. Conclusions

II. Salt administration in Roman Dacia

1. Introduction

2. Conductores

3. Lower-ranked personnel of the saltwork administration

4. Conclusions

Annex 1: Supplementum epigraphicum

Annex 2: Salt resources in the proximity of inscription locations

III. The Roman army and salt exploitation in Dacia

1. Introduction

2. Military camps and fortifications near salt resources

3. Conclusions

IV. Religious aspects of salt mining in Roman Dacia

1. The cult of Terra Mater

2. The cult of other divinities related to mining activities

3. Neptune and Salacia in Roman Dacia

4. Conclusions

V. Conclusions

Supplementum Epigraphicum

Bibliography

About the Author

Lucrețiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba is Professor of Ancient History at „Alexandrui Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. He studied at Iași (Romania), Poitiers and Paris (France) and completed his PhD in Cluj-Napoca and Paris. His work deals especially with Roman social and economic history, with migration, colonisation and Romanisation. He was DAAD-Fellow at Köln, Marburg, Konstanz and Trier, and Visiting Professor at Innsbruck and Valenciennes.