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Late Roman African Cookware of the Palatine East Excavations, Rome: A holistic approach

Janne P. Ikäheimo 2003 © BAR Publishing
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This volume, which is entirely devoted to African cookware, attempts to fill a gap in the field of Roman pottery studies. African cookware, one of the few Roman cooking wares subjected to voluminous interregional trade or exchange, was produced in the province of Africa Proconsularis (present-day Tunisia) from the early 1st at least to the late 5th century AD. In general, the quantity in which African cookware is frequently found outside Tunisia is another reason that makes it a rewarding subject for a detailed study. But while the state-subsidized traffic in agricultural products from Roman Africa has traditionally been regarded as a decisive factor, attention has seldom been paid to the life cycle of African cookware. As the life cycle of pottery includes all the stages from the acquisition of raw materials to the consumption of finished pots, the following discussion introduces a holistic examination of extended sherd families from some twenty-one hundred African cookware vessels found in the Late Roman deposits of the Palatine East excavations (ca. AD 270-550), one of the major excavation projects taken place in Rome within the last twenty years. The first objective of this volume is to use the study assemblage to trace down the technological choicesrelated to African cookware fabrics, forms, and other aspects of production. A further important stimulus for this study lies in the history of Roman pottery studies, the most obvious reason being the long-lasting lack of interest towards the class of undecorated common wares. It is hardly surprising that African cookware has never been studied as a unique group, but only in association with the corresponding tableware, African Red Slip ware.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
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  • 9781841715155 (paperback)
  • 9781407325460 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S1143
Subject
  • Ceramics and Pottery Studies
  • Mediterranean
  • Roman
  • Western Europe and Britain
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • FABRICS
  • FORMS
  • PRODUCTION
  • DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION
  • SUMMARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Plates
  • APPENDIX
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