Some Thoughts on the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wine, Olive Oil, and Fish Products in the Pontic and Lower Danube Areas (1st–6th C. AD)
Some Thoughts on the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wine, Olive Oil, and Fish Products in the Pontic and Lower Danube Areas (1st–6th C. AD)

Summary/Abstract: The author, based on the analysis of the amphorae that carried wine, olive oil, and fish products, makes a brief review of the main trade currents in the Pont area. Based on this analysis, the author observes a certain differentiation between the western and northern, eastern and southern Pontic areas, especially in terms of olive oil supply. If it was fairly evenly distributed throughout the Pontic space in the early Roman era, from the 4th century it continues to be distributed mainly in the military provinces from the Lower Danube through the service of the annona, while the rest of the Pontic space received small amounts of olive oil through free trade. Apart from the military, a big consumer of olive oil was probably the new capital, Constantinople. Vintage wine and fish products have always been distributed through free trade. The author identifies a south-north commercial axis that reached Viminacium, which operated from the 1st century to the beginning of the 7th century.

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