The paper focuses on late Hellenistic contexts from Butrint (Albania) in order to investigate the impact of the Romanization on the material culture of the site. The Butrint Roman Forum Excavations Project (RFE, 2011-2013) directed by the Notre Dame University (Prof. D. R. Hernandez) in collaboration with the Albanian Institute of Archaeology (Prof. Dh. Ҫondi) was mainly designed to investigate the Roman Forum, but soundings deepened under the Roman levels, reached pre-Roman contexts as well. Here pottery from late Hellenistic contexts will be presented, trying to define continuity or changes between the early and the late Hellenistic material culture. Despite the administrative Romanization of the region starts from the late 2nd cent. B.C. and progressively strengths until the foundation of Butrint as roman colony in the late 1st cent. B.C., late Hellenistic pottery is in continuity with previous early Hellenistic centuries. At the same time, the trade openness witnessed in the pottery from the 2nd cent. B.C. is connected to the new economic and commercial balances originated by the growing success of Rome in the Mediterranean Sea and the consequent involvement of Butrint in new trade dynamics.
Continuità e trasformazioni a Butrinto fra II e I sec.a.C.: la ceramica ellenistica / Aleotti, N. - II.2:(2022), pp. 865-881. (Intervento presentato al convegno Roma e il mondro adriatico. Dalla ricerca archeologica alla pianificazione del territorio tenutosi a Macerata).
Continuità e trasformazioni a Butrinto fra II e I sec.a.C.: la ceramica ellenistica.
Aleotti N
2022
Abstract
The paper focuses on late Hellenistic contexts from Butrint (Albania) in order to investigate the impact of the Romanization on the material culture of the site. The Butrint Roman Forum Excavations Project (RFE, 2011-2013) directed by the Notre Dame University (Prof. D. R. Hernandez) in collaboration with the Albanian Institute of Archaeology (Prof. Dh. Ҫondi) was mainly designed to investigate the Roman Forum, but soundings deepened under the Roman levels, reached pre-Roman contexts as well. Here pottery from late Hellenistic contexts will be presented, trying to define continuity or changes between the early and the late Hellenistic material culture. Despite the administrative Romanization of the region starts from the late 2nd cent. B.C. and progressively strengths until the foundation of Butrint as roman colony in the late 1st cent. B.C., late Hellenistic pottery is in continuity with previous early Hellenistic centuries. At the same time, the trade openness witnessed in the pottery from the 2nd cent. B.C. is connected to the new economic and commercial balances originated by the growing success of Rome in the Mediterranean Sea and the consequent involvement of Butrint in new trade dynamics.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.