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"Can we study the social and legal practices related to families in an ancient society even in the absence of relevant literary and legal sources? In Lycia, thanks to our rich corpus of inscriptions, and the regional funerary epigraphic habit, we can. This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions. The book makes an innovative contribution not only to the history of Lycia but also to the wider study of ancient families"--

Introduction : Maritime archaeology and the ancient economy / Andrew Wilson and Damian Robinson -- The shipwrecks of Heracleion-Thonis : a preliminary study / David Fabre -- Developments in Mediterranean shipping and maritime trade from the Hellenistic period to AD 1000 / Andrew Wilson -- Ancient sailing-routes and trade patterns : the impact of human factors / Pascal Arnaud -- Ceramic assemblages and ports / Candace Rice -- Constructing port hierarchies : harbours of the central Tyrrhenian coast / Katia Schörle -- Technology, innovation, and trade : research into the engineering characteristics of Roman maritime concrete / John Oleson, Christopher Brandon and Robert Hohlfelder -- Heracleion-Thonis and Alexandria, two ancient Egyptian emporia / Franck Goddio -- Lapis transmarinus : stone-carrying ships and the maritime distribution of stone in the Roman Empire / Ben Russell -- Dolia shipwrecks and the wine trade in the Roman Mediterranean / Karen Heslin -- Location, location, location : characterizing coastal and inland production and distribution of Roman African cooking wares / Victoria Leitch -- A reconstruction of the maritime trade patterns originating from western Asia Minor during late antiquity, on the basis of ceramic evidence / Theodore Papaioannou -- Maritime connectivity in late antique Lycia : a tale of two cities, Aperlae and Andriake / Robert Hohlfelder