Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/OA.39.12
INSTRUMENTUM DOMESTICUM FROM BANJAČE
Ivana Ožanić Roguljić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0140-8011
; Institute of archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper the scientific analysis of pottery, glass, stone and bone tools from the village site of Banjače. Such material can be called instrumentum domesticum. The pottery finds were divided into amphorae, kitchen and table ware, weights and tegulae. The amphorae mostly originate from the eastern Mediterranean (LR1 I LR2), with only a few finds of African origin (spatehion). Several new types of amphorae also appear. Kitchen ware includes pots and deep bowls of regional character, and fine ware mostly originates from Africa (5th century). Round ceramic weights could have been used as parts of spindles, looms or nets. Some, so called, semi-products, were also found, i.e. pottery fragments which were secondarily shaped into weights. Glass finds (lamps, glasses, small bowls) display a typical repertoire of the 5th and 6th centuries. Stone finds- mortar and parts of hand grindstones were mostly found in structure 2, which can point to its function-an area used for processing food, i.e. grinding cereals and other ingredients, as well as storage. A fragment of a tripartite bone comb was also found.
Keywords
Banjače; Dalmatia; Late Antiquity; rural settlement; amphorae; late Roman 1; Late Roman 2; spatheion; table ware; kitchen ware; weights; ceramic semi-products; glass; grindstone; stone mortar; bone comb
Hrčak ID:
214197
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2018.
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