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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Household waste deposit from Porta Pisana and trends of fine ware consumption within the settlement of Krk (in the last centuries BCE)

The article offers preliminary insights to ceramic fine wares from a rare urban context of Late Iron Age Kvarner (north-eastern Adriatic) that came to light through archaeological excavations conducted outside the Krk’s city walls (Porta Pisana locality), on the island of Krk. The discovered layers dated between the advanced/late 3rd century BCE and the first decades of the 1st century AD, have been interpreted as refuse layers of household debris, which makes them, for now, a unique regional find. Herein we shall focus on types of discovered fine tableware remains typically described within the well-known classes of Hellenistic (and earlier) pottery (red-figure ware, Gnathia ware, black coated ware, grey slipped ware, red slipped ware and relief ware). The analysis of style, morphology, fabric and context of sherds that once belonged to vessels used for setting the table in Krk’s community of the advanced 3rd-1st c. BCE, with some earlier residues, reveals trends of tableware supply defined by the consumers’ context, the local cultural taste and demand, as well as the associated seaborne connectivity. Through this lens, one can reconstruct continuity and change in the aspects of daily life, i.e. drinking and dining practices from Protohistory into the early Roman times, embedded in micro-regional socio-political circumstances.

Kvarner (NE Adriatic) ; island/city of Krk ; Porta Pisana ; household waste ; Hellenistic pottery ; fine tableware ; drinking and dining gear ; insularity and connectivity

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