Luxury tableware? Terra sigillata in the coastal region of the northern Netherlands
With thousands of finds, Roman terra sigillata (TS) is a common find category in terp settlements of the Northern Netherlands. It is traditionally interpreted as luxury tableware of the local elites, who acquired it through their contacts with Romans, or who were able to buy it from traders who came to this area with their merchandise. This paper questions that interpretation. The reason is that the far majority of TS is found as sherds, which, despite their good recognisability, only rarely fit other sherds. Moreover, many of these sherds are worked or used in some way. They were made into pe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | bookPart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Archaeopress
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Schlagwörter: | Roman archaeology / Terra Sigillata / Roman colonization / Northern Netherlands |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29190463 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/236f8972-d0fb-4072-9694-7be0545b691d |