Congratulations to HCMH’s post-doc and research fellow, Dr. Federico Ugolini, on his article titled “The Network of Roman Ports in North Adriatic Italy from the First to the Fifth Century AD: Development, Operation and Relevance” published in the journal Archaeologia Maritima Mediterranea.

This paper analyses the network of Roman ports in North Adriatic Italy and explores selected major (Aquileia, Ravenna), regional and satellite ports (Grado, Iulia Concordia, Altino, Venetian lagoon and Po Delta, and Rimini), through an examination of literary, archaeological, epigraphic and topographic sources. This paper investigates the port network of the NW Adriatic by exploring its development, operation and relevance from the first to the fifth century AD.

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