Los puertos del Golfo de Nápoles; Puteoli y la técnica del opus pilarum

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Arqueologia Clàssica

Title in different languages: The ports of the Gulf of Naples; Puteoli and the opus pilarum technique

Abstract: Among the excellent harbours of the Neapolitan gulf, one in particular, the one in Puteoli, would stand out over all the others because of its fundamental role as port of entry for the wheat destined to feed the plebs of Rome. Part of its success is due to its optimum location, complemented by the advantages of its main pier, built with the opus pilarum technique, making it one of the most efficient structures of antiquity, which revealed the great virtues offered by pozzolanic ash, one of the components of opus caementicium able of solidify under water. This highly efficient building system would soon seem to be imitated by other ports in the Mediterranean, but such fact would not reach the magnitudes that modern historiography would expect.

Subject: Edificis. Instal·lacions

Academic year: 2016-2017

Language: Castellà

Work's public defense date: 2017-09-13

Subject areas: Història

Student: García Llana, Jorge

Department: Història i Història de lArt

Creation date in repository: 2019-06-05

TFM credits: 12

Keywords: Ports, Puteoli, opus pilarum

Title in original language: Los puertos del Golfo de Nápoles; Puteoli y la técnica del opus pilarum

Project director: Ruiz de Arbulo Bayona, Joaquín