Abstrakt
Coastal area of Eastern Adriatic is very suitable for planting of olive tree and grapevine. In the Augustan period the whole coastal landscape was turned into economically prosperous agricultural units.
In some of these units, the evidence of the production of olive oil and wine can be found. Among the archaeologically detected proofs of this important production belong not only a pressing room with different equipment (olive mill, calcatorium, pressing device), but also a storage rooms for finished product (cella olearia/vinaria).
This paper will provide a comprehensive map of spread of all known Roman sites (altogether 94 sites) linked to the production of olive oil/wine in period from the beginning of the 1st century AD till the end of the 6th century AD in the territory bounded by the river Arsia (Raša, Croatia) on the north and by the city of Lissos (Lezhë, Albania) on the south. This paper clearly disproves old theories about a small scale of olive oil/wine production in Dalmatia and it also indicates that the local production was large enough to suggest a possibility of export.