Preliminary Considerations on Roman pottery from a rescue excavation at Noviodunum

Abstract

The pottery analyzed in this paper was excavated during a survey verifying the archaeological potential of the area situated 500 metres SW of the Roman city of Noviodunum, where a 6,000 sqm major construction project will be erected (the Romanian Border Police Headquarters). For this reason, the archaeological team decided to first dig a 30 × 2 m trench N-S orientated. 0.30-0.50 m deep painted plaster, Roman and Early medieval pottery shards, glass, Roman mortar, building materials and a W-E oriented inhumation grave were found. The pottery was discovered in a waste pit 3 × 2 m at the top (-0.55 m), narrowing gradually up to -1.70 m deep. In the same context, some earthen lamps and moulds, which will be published separately, were also found.

Keywords

• pottery
• typology
• early roman period
• getae
• archaeology
• roman empire
• lower danube
• moesia inferior
• isaccea
• noviodunum
• black sea