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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. Special%20Issue / 2009  
         
  Article:   LOCALLY-PRODUCED ROMAN POTTERY FROM NAPOCA.

Authors:  VIORICA RUSU-BOLINDEŢ, CORINA IONESCU, LUCREŢIA GHERGARI, VIORICA SIMON. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Napoca was founded by Emperor Traian as a rural settlement (106-108 A.D.). It was raised to the rank of a municipium under Hadrian (117/118 A.D.), and a colonia under Marcus Aurelius (161-180 A.D.). Throughout the Roman period (106-275 A.D.), Napoca was a first-rank city of the province of Dacia, inhabited by both, colonists from Noricum and Pannonia and by the autochthonous, Dacian population. The old Roman remains were excavated during the last sixty years. Among other items, two categories of ceramic ware were found: imported and local pottery. In the case of the first, luxurious pottery items were imported from the western provinces of the empire, such as terra sigillata, thin-walled pottery, vessels decorated en barbotine technique or glazed ones. The local potters produced luxurious ceramics imitating the imported one. The common ware, used for cooking, for tableware, or for preserving and transporting food etc. was also produced locally. The distinction between the imported and locally produced ware can be made based on typology, ceramic paste and technological features.

Key words: Roman pottery, archaeometry, Napoca, Romania.
  
         
     
         
         
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