Ancient Olive Presses and Oil Production, In Cyrenaica (North-East Libya)

Author

Ahmed Buzalan

Year

2022

Publisher

British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-91580-800-4

Link

Last Update

20-Aug-2025

Keywords

History ; Classical Studies ; African Studies ; Agriculture

Description

Previous works on ancient olive oil and wine production in the ancient Mediterranean (Frankel 1999; Brun 2003b, 2004) and North Africa (Mattingly 1985; 1988ad; 1993; 1994; 1995; 2009; Mattingly and Hitchner 1993) have broadened our knowledge on specifications, techniques and scale of production of Roman presses. These works discuss how this significantly contributed to the success of the Roman economy and long-distance trade. They also provided important information for larger debates about the overall Roman economy and the most dynamic exporting areas in the ancient Mediterranean. The scale of production and the export of olive oil in the Mediterranean was...