Search for dissertations about: "roman pottery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words roman pottery.

  2. 1. Ritualization - Hybridization - Fragmentation : The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1–400

    Author : Fredrik Ekengren; Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ritual destruction; obolus; imports; Roman Iron Age; Roman vessels; Germania Magna; transformation; appropriation; practice theory; ritual practice; princely graves; fürstengräber; identity construction; silver vessels; Germanic pottery; hybridity; Roman glass; Charon s coin; fragmentation; enchainment;

    Abstract : This PhD thesis deals with the transformation of imported vessels of Roman origin in Germania Magna during the Roman Iron Age, 1-400 AD. The concept of transformation in this context refers to the various ways these objects were interpreted, physically altered and consequently changed with regard to their function and meaning. READ MORE

  4. 2. Caleacte : Production and Exchange in a North Sicilian Town c. 500 BC-500 AD

    Author : Adam Lindhagen; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Antikens och forntidens historia; Ancient history; Roman; Hellenistic; pottery; amphorae; exchange; Caleacte; production; Petrology; mineralogy; geochemistry; Petrologi; mineralogi; geokemi;

    Abstract : The study deals with the ancient town of Caleacte, modern Caronia, on the north coast of Sicily. Information provided by ancient textual sources, epigraphy and archaeology on the economic conditions and framework of the site and its micro-region are presented in the first chapter. READ MORE

  5. 3. Shards of Iron Age Communications. A ceramological study of internal structures and external contacts in the Gudme-Lundeborg Area, Funen during the Late Roman Iron Age

    Author : Ole Stilborg; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; local; Funen; Gudme-Lundeborg Area; trading site; cemetery; settlement; Late Roman Iron Age; material systems; Things; communication; Pottery; ceramology; import; center; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The objective of ceramology is to describe pottery craft traditions; the potters, their production, social organisation and the use of the products. Through this the human actions surrounding the pottery are studied. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Argolid under Roman rule (31 BC - AD 600)

    Author : Renée Forsell; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Ancient history; power structures; social structure; Christianisation; religious life; trade; subsistence; settlement patterns; Western Argolid; Southern Argolid; Methana; Troizenia; Epidaurea; Late Roman Greece; Argolid; Roman Greece; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the region of Argolid in the eastern part of the Greek Peloponnese during the Roman Imperial era, taking up a variety of aspects of life there based mainly on archaeological evidence. The introduction presents the study area and the background to the study. READ MORE

  7. 5. Berbati between Argos and Corinth : the excavations at Pyrgouthi in 1995 and 1997 : from the early Iron Age to the early Roman period

    Author : Arto Penttinen; Pontus Hellström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Landscape archaeology; border zone; boundary; Corinthia; Argolid; Early Iron Age Greece; Classical Greece; Hellenistic Greece; Early Roman Greece; pastoralism; transhumance; animal husbandry; ancient agriculture; potters kiln; tower; fortification; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is based on the finds from the archaeological excavations at Pyrgouthi, Berbati, in the Argolid, Greece, in 1995 and 1997. The excavations focused on a rectangular tower built of heavy polygonal blocks, which was identified as belonging to a farmstead site during an earlier surface survey in the area. READ MORE