ABSTRACT
The economic foundation of civilian development lay in the productivity of the province: the various branches of production all reached their highest level during the Flavian and Antonine periods. In the forests care was taken to exploit the economic possibilities of the timber; a saltuarius recorded in northern Carinthia around the middle of the second century was perhaps overseer of an imperial forest, which may have been leased out to rich conductores. Forests and pastures also produced wealth in the few products of the country-side which, according to Strabo, the inhabitants of the Alpine lands could export. Animal bones from various sites, such as the Magdalensberg, Hallstatt, Ovilava, and Boiodurum show that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, various other fowl and the domestic dog were universally reared. Industrial production developed more strongly in Noricum than did farming after the time of Claudius. The production of household pottery also acquired great importance.
