Appropriation of the Hellenistic Relief Ware in Ancient Trogir (Central Dalmatia, Eastern Adriatic): Preliminary Observations (original) (raw)

This paper focuses on an aspect of material culture from that period, the ceramic relief-ware from Trogir and its neighbourhood, and brings together currently available evidence of this Hellenistic pottery class, setting it in to the regional context. The preliminary analysis of morphology, decoration and fabrics, mostly of mould-made bowls, but also occasionally of other shapes such a crater and a plate, indicates the overwhelming presence of products of probable regional, Dalmatian workshop(s), and imports of conceivably central (at least Albania) and eastern Mediterranean (so-called Ionian bowls) provenance. The recent evidence is slowly outlining the patterns of consumption, and points to the adoption of mould-made bowls as the drinking vessels in Trogir's households by the advanced 2nd c. BCE. Other finds discovered in a household(?) shrine, indicate the practical appropriation of relief ware in social drinking and/or libations as a part of certain cult rites, while its role in mortuary activities, for now, has to remain a speculative once, since Tragurion necropolis of the last centuries BCE has not yet been discovered.

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