Roman Regional Pottery Supply Systems between the Stara Planina and the Danube (Bulgaria) during the Principate

On behalf of the Chair of Archaeology of the Barbaricum and Roman Provinces, we invite you to a lecture on 18th of January at 9.45 a.m. to be given by guest speaker Dr Lina Diers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dr Diers will present a paper entitled Roman Regional Pottery Supply Systems between the Stara Planina and the Danube (Bulgaria) during the Principate. The meeting will be held in room 2.07 of the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw.

 

Summary:

The lecture introduces a project that is currently being conducted at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in cooperation with the University of Warsaw. The project aims to characterise and contextualise the regional economic supply and transportation networks between the Stara Planina and the Danube in the Roman provinces of Moesia Inferior/Thracia through the lens of pottery provenance studies. The productions of the various ceramic centres in the territory of Nicopolis ad Istrum are examined using various archaeometric methods in order to develop a reference base for provenance determination, which is backed up by pottery finds from Novae, Nicopolis, and several rural sites along the Yantra, Rositsa, and Osam river valleys. The results are incorporated into research on potential transport routes, transport types, rural settlement systems, and the relationship between regional centres like Nicopolis and Novae. The lecture provides an overview of the project objectives, schedule, and potential problems of research and offers a forum for discussion.

 

The photo illustrating the post is from the website of the Department of Barbaric and Roman Archaeology. Description from the page: Novae 2018. a set of vessels found in one of the graves in the eastern necropolis (photo: A. Tomas)