Traditional modern tunny-fishing factory (i.e. tonnara, madrague, almadraba etc.) isn’t an Arabian or Byzantine invention, but it comes from ancient Greek-Roman culture. A factory for fishing and salting tuna, lately surveyed near Pachino (Siracusa, Italia), is the material evidence of that; furthermore, several epigraphic and literary soruces confirm that in antiquity tunny-fishing was carried out not only with encircling nets, ma also with anchored and moored tunny-fishing nets, as modern tonnare was. The sources call that with some technical terms (depending on the fish size): pelamydeia, thynneia, orkyneia, keteia, and furthermore with the byzantine term epoche and latin cetaria. Elements of such system was the thynnoskopeia (sighting points), and ketothereia (layings up for fishing tools).

Tonnare antiche

enrico felici
2017-01-01

Abstract

Traditional modern tunny-fishing factory (i.e. tonnara, madrague, almadraba etc.) isn’t an Arabian or Byzantine invention, but it comes from ancient Greek-Roman culture. A factory for fishing and salting tuna, lately surveyed near Pachino (Siracusa, Italia), is the material evidence of that; furthermore, several epigraphic and literary soruces confirm that in antiquity tunny-fishing was carried out not only with encircling nets, ma also with anchored and moored tunny-fishing nets, as modern tonnare was. The sources call that with some technical terms (depending on the fish size): pelamydeia, thynneia, orkyneia, keteia, and furthermore with the byzantine term epoche and latin cetaria. Elements of such system was the thynnoskopeia (sighting points), and ketothereia (layings up for fishing tools).
2017
tunny-fishing, thynnos.
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