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Discovery of a Roman local ceramics workshop in Crikvenica
Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan
Sažetak
In the summer months of 2006, archaeological research was begun on the position of the site Crikvenica “Igralište”. In minor archaeological experimental excavations in 2004, carried out on the position of the same site by the Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb, the aim was to try to explain a long-term occurrence of accidental archaeological finds from the period of the Roman Antiquity on locations in the immediate proximity of the very archaeological site. Results from previous research, as well as from the archaeological excavations of 2006, showed the existence of an economic complex on the above mentioned location, as part of which a ceramics workshop was active, during the early phase of the Romanization of the Croatian coast. The find of a whole layer of deposited and later scattered (terraced) Roman ceramics, as well as an oven for the manufacturing of ceramics, confirmed our assumptions. A special contribution to realizations on the activity of a local ceramics workshop in the area of the site Crikvenica “Igralište” are the finds of a workshop stamp of the owner (or lessee) Sextus Metilius Maximus. The workshop was active from the second half of the 1st cent. B.C. until the end of the 2nd cent. A.D., and was part of a larger Antique economic and settlement complex, the name of which is not remembered throughout history, but the position has been preserved in the later toponym of the road station Ad Turres.
Ključne riječi
Crikvenica; Ad Turres; Roman Antiquity; Roman local ceramics workshop; ceramics manufacturing oven; tegulae with stamps
Hrčak ID:
13241
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Datum izdavanja:
5.6.2007.
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