Pottery Production, Landscape and Economy of Roman Dalmatia

Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan was born in Zagreb, where she graduated history and archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb where she also obtained her doctorate in 2001. She is employed at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb as a scientific collaborator, where she has also been leading the Croatian Science Foundation project Roman Economy in Dalmatia: Production, distribution and demand in the light of pottery workshops – RED (IP-11-2013-3973). Her scholarly interests include Roman economy with particular regard to pottery workshops and their products. | Ana Konestra, born in Rijeka, graduated archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Udine. She gained her doctorate at the University of Zadar in 2016, with a dissertation on imported Roman finewares to Liburnia. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, conducting research on Roman rural landscapes and material culture, in particular pottery, and is a member of the Roman Economy in Dalmatia: Production, distribution and demand in the light of pottery workshops – RED (IP-11-2013-3973) project research group.

• Preface – by Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan and Ana Konestra; Eastern Adriatic Hellenistic and Roman pottery and ceramics production sites – by Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan, Ana Konestra and Marina Ugarković; The amphorae of the western Adriatic: an update – by Marie-Brigitte Carre and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli; Approaching the Roman economy of Province Dalmatia through pottery production – the Liburnia case study – by Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan and Ana Konestra; Overview of the capacity of pottery vessels from the workshop of Sextus Metillius Maximus (Crikvenica) – by Ivana Ožanić Roguljić; Numismatic finds from the area of the workshop of Sextus Metillius Maximus in Crikvenica – by Mato Ilkić; New finds of Crikvenica 1-type amphorae in the area of southern Liburnia – by Igor Borzić, Martina Čelhar, Gregory Zaro and Vedrana Glavaš; Crikvenica amphorae from Canale Anfora: first evidence of Liburnian wine at Aquileia – by Paola Maggi; Geoarchaeology of pottery workshop sites in Roman Dalmatia – by Fabian Welc; Harbour installations in the context of the pottery workshop in Plemići Bay – by Mate Parica and Mato Ilkić; Anthracology and wood analysis from the pottery workshop sites of Crikvenica – Igralište and Plemići Bay: first results of genus identification – by Ernest Goršić; Animal exploitation at the Roman site of Crikvenica – Igralište – by Kazimir Miculinić; The role of archaeometry in the study of production and dispersal of Hellenistic pottery in Dalmatia, with new evidence on the chemistry of grey-ware tableware – by Marina Ugarković and Branimir Šegvić; Archaeometric characterisation of pottery and ceramics from Dalmatian Roman pottery workshops and possible clay raw material by multivariate statistical analysis – by Tea Zubin Ferri; Mineralogical analyses of Roman pottery from Dalmatian workshops and potential clays sources – by Anita Grizelj; RED Spatial Database – by Nera Šegvić