Late Roman kitchen pottery discovered at Histria in the Centre-North Sector (2012)

Abstract

The 50 pottery fragments presented in the following pages belong to a lot including 143 fragments discovered at Histria, in the Centre-North Sector, in a trench of 26×2 m excavated in 2012. In the previous issue of the present publication we presented 41 fragments of Oriental amphorae. The complete pottery lot is divided as follows : Vasa escaria – 25 fragments ; Vasa pota(to) ria – 15 fragments ; Vasa conquina(to) ria – 10 fragments. The processed lot is divided accordingly : 52.45% amphorae, 43.36% kitchen pottery, 2.80% oil lamps, and 1.40% varia. The statistics upon the entire discovered pottery lot indicate the following distribution : amphorae (77.60%), kitchen pottery (20.40%) and varia (2%)

Keywords

• late antiquity
• roman period
• scythia
• histria
• pottery