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Dyczek, Piotr: Remarks on the Roman amphorae at Novae from the first to the third century A. D.
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Piotr Dy czek
REMARKS ON THE ROMAN AMPHORAE AT NOVAE
FROM THE FIRST TO THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.
This paper aims at presenting a preliminary report on my research on the Roman
amphorae from Novae.
During the excavation works at Novae fragments of amphorae were found within
five structures, and namely: principia (Polish sector XI), tabernae in scamnum
tribunorum (Bulgarian sector), Flavian termae legionis and valetudinarium (Polish
sector IV), and villa extra muros, (Bulgarian sector 8 A). The materiał, while
coming from the most interesting buildings of each legionary fortress, cannot,
however, be taken for characteristic of every-day life of the fortress, given the specific
function of the above-mentioned structures. We can suppose that the types of products
used in the headąuarters, baths, or hospital were different from those in use by
ordinary soldiers1. But to reach a reasonably balanced view materiał from contuber-
nia should be taken into account. However, excavating the soldiers' barracks reamains
at Novae a futurę task.
Only smali quantities of amphorae fragments were found in the principia2. They
come exclusivly from a smali cellar dug in earth. This scarcity of sherds can be
accounted for by assuming that the principia were regularly cleaned and the rubbish,
amphorae fragments included, were thrown away.
In the tabernae situated along the via principalis situation seems to be quite
similar. Here, as in the principia, many glass and pottery fragments, among them these
of amphorae, were found filling the cellars below the ground level. Ali the materiał
can be said to belong to the period from the second half of the first century to the
beginning of the second century A.D.
The sector IV comprises one whole insula in the praetentura legionis measuring
80 x 80 m. There are three main structures in this area two of which belong to an
inner arrangement of the Roman castrum.
The first level belongs to the legionary baths of the Flavian period3. It was a large
building with palestra and well-defined arrangement of rooms in a Reihenbad type.
Within the baths fragments of amphorae were found in two stratigrafical structures.
The first of them, where fragments of the Bosphorian type amphorae were found, was
a clay floor in a smali room close to the apodyterium — probably a kind of storę or
REMARKS ON THE ROMAN AMPHORAE AT NOVAE
FROM THE FIRST TO THE THIRD CENTURY A.D.
This paper aims at presenting a preliminary report on my research on the Roman
amphorae from Novae.
During the excavation works at Novae fragments of amphorae were found within
five structures, and namely: principia (Polish sector XI), tabernae in scamnum
tribunorum (Bulgarian sector), Flavian termae legionis and valetudinarium (Polish
sector IV), and villa extra muros, (Bulgarian sector 8 A). The materiał, while
coming from the most interesting buildings of each legionary fortress, cannot,
however, be taken for characteristic of every-day life of the fortress, given the specific
function of the above-mentioned structures. We can suppose that the types of products
used in the headąuarters, baths, or hospital were different from those in use by
ordinary soldiers1. But to reach a reasonably balanced view materiał from contuber-
nia should be taken into account. However, excavating the soldiers' barracks reamains
at Novae a futurę task.
Only smali quantities of amphorae fragments were found in the principia2. They
come exclusivly from a smali cellar dug in earth. This scarcity of sherds can be
accounted for by assuming that the principia were regularly cleaned and the rubbish,
amphorae fragments included, were thrown away.
In the tabernae situated along the via principalis situation seems to be quite
similar. Here, as in the principia, many glass and pottery fragments, among them these
of amphorae, were found filling the cellars below the ground level. Ali the materiał
can be said to belong to the period from the second half of the first century to the
beginning of the second century A.D.
The sector IV comprises one whole insula in the praetentura legionis measuring
80 x 80 m. There are three main structures in this area two of which belong to an
inner arrangement of the Roman castrum.
The first level belongs to the legionary baths of the Flavian period3. It was a large
building with palestra and well-defined arrangement of rooms in a Reihenbad type.
Within the baths fragments of amphorae were found in two stratigrafical structures.
The first of them, where fragments of the Bosphorian type amphorae were found, was
a clay floor in a smali room close to the apodyterium — probably a kind of storę or