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Drinking customs in northern Liburnia (Kvarner gulf) at the turn of the century – finewares of late Hellenistic and early Roman date from the context of Porta Pisana at Krk (island of Krk, Croatia)

Kvarner, the northern most inlet of the eastern Adriatic, has rarely yielded significant context of 1st c. BCE - 1st c. CE pottery, mostly due to the poor state of research. Nevertheless, an important assemblage was excavated at the Porta Pisana site in the town of Krk, presenting a full array of finewares, amphorae and common ware, dated from the 4th c. BCE to the mid-1st c. CE. On this occasion, we will focus on the drinking vessels of late Hellenistic to early Imperial date, more precisely on the late Hellenistic painted ware, grey slipped ware, red-slipped ware, relief ware, thin-walled ware and terra sigillata. The analysis, though still in course, shows that the usage and thus commerce in finewares was not suspended during the 1st c. BCE, when Roman rule was formally established in the region. In fact, we can argue that commerce and the import of wine and the ware for its consumption was not disrupted but saw a continuity that can be explained by the insertion of the local population within the wider Adriatic and Mediterranean commercial traffics.

Kvarner ; drinking customs ; Hellenistic and early Roman pottery

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