Oh great and knowledgeable Twitter, I know fish sauce was big in ancient Rome but was it still used in the MA? Or fish oil? If oil for what?
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hm well I'll keep my eyes peeled to see if I see it again in case I can figure out if it was coming all the way from there
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(in the west, still being produced in 8thC Italy, but production seems to die out after this, or usually assumed so)
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I find myself becoming instantly suspicious whenever I read that some cultural element died out in 8th C!
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Indeed! Usually said to be last evidence of production, fwiw, but is some possible evidence from Amalfi >
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> with suggestion that a medieval fermented anchovy sauce recorded there in 12thC could be descendant? :)
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