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Roman pottery production complex in Crikvenica – conclusive research in 2015

Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan orcid.org/0000-0002-0613-729X ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Valent ; Koprivnica, Croatia
Ana Konestra orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-6515 ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Ožanić Roguljić orcid.org/0000-0002-0140-8011 ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The research at the "Igralište" site in Crikvenica (within the Ad Turres Roman settlement) carried out from 2006 to 2015 has resulted in extremely valuable scientific data about the regional pottery production complex of Sextus Metilius Maximus. The research into the surrounding landscape, which was an integral part of our project, pointed out that the choice of location for establishing a workshop was important because of the quantity and availability of natural resources (clay, wood, water), a nearby communication network, both on land and sea, vicinity of urban centres and good climate.
This year, the research was carried out within the RED project of the Croatian Science Foundation (IP-11-2013-3973), and three phases of spatial organization were defined for the so-called northern production sector. For the first and earliest phase, a sequence of rooms partitioned by walls whose lower layers were built of tegulas was uncovered. Different types of flooring suggest differences in the usage of these rooms. During the next two phases, the initial layout of the workshop had been considerably expanded destroying some of the boundary walls from the previous phase. A tendency to unify smaller separate spatial units within a purposefully organized space is noticeable. Numerous upgrades, adaptations and leveling of the floors point out the need for reorganization of the workshop and adaptation to increasing demand which can be traced back from the mid-1st century to the early 2nd century, when the peak of production at Crikvenica's pottery complex had been reached.

Keywords

Crikvenica; Roman pottery production complex; spatial organization; archaeological landscape; databases

Hrčak ID:

167335

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/167335

Publication date:

7.10.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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