Abstracts

1Chap. 1 The Background Study

2This chapter outlines the grographical, human and historical factors concerning this vast région of north-eastern France, comprising five actual modem departments. During Antiquity they belonged to two distinct provinces : Alsace was attached to Germania Superior, a military district, and the Lorraine to Gallia Belgica, a civil province.

3From the hundreds of sites studied, the diversity, the multiplication and the specificity of the consomption centres is evoked.

4Chap. 2 The Amphorae : Form, Chronology and Distribution

5For each type of product transported (wine, oil, salted meat or fish or non-identified products…) the different types of amphorae identified are regrouped by country of origin, counted systematically and their forms studied.

6An identification of the production sites is attempted in certain cases. The study of distribution networks particuliar to each type of amphora is accompanied by a distribution map of find-sites.

7Chap. 3 The Distribution

8From information obtained on sample sites, this chapter outlines commercial movements in the region and one représentation of each production country during one course of the diverse chronological phases (Augustian, Ist, Und, lllrd centuries).

9The results are compared with those of neighbouring régions. An interprétation is presented concerning the eventual consumers of these products and on the respective roles of the army and civilian population in the local economic activity.