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A major study of imperial estates in Italy - MARCO MAIURO, RES CAESARIS. RICERCHE SULLA PROPRIETÀ IMPERIALE NEL PRINCIPATO (Pragmateiai 23; Edipuglia, Bari 2012). Pp. 482, Tables. ISBN 978-88-7228-655-5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Alastair M. Small
Alastair M. Small*
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University of Edinburgh, aandcsmall@tiscali.co.uk
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 645 - 652
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References

1 Pupillo, D. (ed.), Le proprietà imperiali nell’Italia romana: economia, produzione, amministrazione (Florence 2007)Google Scholar, contains 20 articles on a variety of topics, thematic and regional. Small, A. M. (ed.), Beyond Vagnari: new themes in the study of Roman South Italy (Bari 2014)Google Scholar, includes several studies of imperial properties, and of the ideology of imperial estates and their rôle in the overall pattern of landholding in Italy.

2 See preliminary reports in FOLD&R 2006-10; also E. Fentress and M. Maiuro, “Villa Magna near Anagni: the emperor, his winery and the wine of Signia,“ JRA 24 (2011) 333-69.Google Scholar

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5 Vagnari is in Apulia, not Lucania (295), and the tile-stamps found there read Grati / Caesaris, not Gratti / Ti(beri) Caesaris (326). The reference should be to Small, Volterra and Hancock 2003, not'Small – Small 2003”.

6 Cascio, E. Lo (Il Princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana [Bari 2000] 111–220)Google Scholar, for example, argues that there was a progressive blending of the remains of ager publicus and the imperial patrimonium.

7 Argued more fully by Millar, F., The emperor in the Roman world (London 1977) 621–23Google Scholar.

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11 For the view that they were frequently sold, see Crawford, D. J., “Imperial estates,” in Finley, M. I. (ed.), Studies in Roman property (Cambridge 1976) 40–44 Google Scholar; Millar (supra n.7) 175.

12 Notably by Hirschfeld (supra n.8) 311-13.

13 Cf. Flaccus, Siculus, De condicionibus agrorum, 120.23–4Google Scholar, in Campbell, B., Writings of the Roman land surveyors (London 2000)Google Scholar: formae varias appelationes accipiunt. quidam <in> arbore<i>s tabulis, alii in aeneis, alii in membr<an>is scripserunt.

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19 Kehoe (supra n.15) 50.

20 Digest 50.1.38.1: (Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus) rescripserunt colonos praediorum fisci muneribus fungi sine damno fisci oportere, idque excutere praesidem adhibito procuratore debere; 50.6.5.11: Coloni quoque Caesaris a muneribus liberantur, ut idoniores praediis fiscalibus habeantur. But imperial policy in this matter was not consistent: Millar (supra n.7) 180; Kehoe (supra n.15) 85-86.

21 Pelham's, H. F. observations (“The imperial domains and the colonate,” in Essays by Henry Francis Pelham [Oxford 1911] 275–99)Google Scholar on vici on imperial estates are still useful.

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29 Prowse, T. L., “The human skeletal remains,” in Small, A. M. and Small, C. M. (edd.), “Excavation in the Roman cemetery at Vagnari in the territory of Gravina in Puglia 2002,” PBSR 75 (2007) 150–62Google Scholar; T. Prowse, J. L. Barta, von Hunnius, T. E. and Small, A. M., “Stable isotope and mitochondrial DNA evidence for geographic origins on a Roman estate at Vagnari (Italy),” in Eckardt, H. (ed.), Roman diasporas: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman empire (JRA Suppl. 78, 2010) 175–98Google Scholar; T. L. Prowse, C. Nause and M. Ledger, “Growing up and growing old on an imperial estate: preliminary palaeopathological analysis of skeletal remains from Vagnari,” in Small, Beyond Vagnari (supra n.1) 111-22.

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