Original scientific paper
Barbotine decoration on thin-walled pottery from investigations in Mursa (Vojarna 2008 – 2013)
Slavica Filipović
; Museum of Slavonia in Osijek, Archaeological department, Osijek, Croatia
Mirna Crmković
; Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
In 2012 and 2013, statistical analysis and expert processing was carried out on ceramic material from Mursa. This material came from rescue archaeological excavations which were conducted on the site of the former Drava Barracks, the present day University Campus, in the period 2008–2013. An early Roman horizon from the 1st and 2nd cent. AD was documented on all of the sites relating to the time before the establishment of the colony, which is also evidenced by the findings of thin-walled pottery. This paper deals with the decorative techniques that appear on this type of pottery, and is especially focused on the findings featuring the barbotine technique. This type of decoration is represented in most of the production centres and it is one of the oldest and most widespread ways of decorating. The decorative motifs performed in this technique are different types of stylized and floral motifs, spines, pseudo-vegetable waves, etc. The origin of a part of the findings from Mursa can be linked to the Northern Italic production centres. Also represented are the findings which, most likely, belong to the Pannonian production centre located in Sirmium.
Keywords
Pannonia; Mursa; thin-walled pottery; barbotine; Romanization
Hrčak ID:
129331
URI
Publication date:
6.11.2014.
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