In search of lost trade Scripta commercii Roman law and Mediterranean ports

The former title is an invitation to search along the Mediterranean shorelines that compose the context of research of the Portus limen project . The Mediterranean is an intricately patterned kaleidoscope. The mass of water is sometimes regarded as a border and a site of violent cultural conflict, but alternatively as a bridge or road, linking all who lived on its shores. In an Empire as big as that of Rome, one of the elements that speaks most strongly about its relatively high level of integration was the commerce that took place along its different shores.