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Hellenistic Ash Containers from Phoinike (Albania)
No full textThe paper focuses on the Hellenistic ash containers from the cemetery of Phoinike, investigated by the University of Bologna and the Albanian Institute of Archaeology from 2001 to 2009. This study was conducted by analyzing the containers from two different points of view: the study of their shapes and their chronological evolution on the one hand, and on the other their contribution to the investigation of funerary ideology at Phoinike. For this inquiry the analogies between grave goods and connections between sex, grave goods and ash containers were studied
I cinerari della necropoli ellenistico-romana di Phoinike (Albania meridionale)
No full textThe study here presented analyzes all the ashes containers attested in the Hellenistic-Roman necropolis of the city of Phoinike (Southern Albania), investigated by the Italian Archaeological Mission of the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Albanian Archaeological Institute from 2001 to 2009. Cremation is the predominant practice attested from the Hellenistic to Roman period, but it is always associated to inhumation. Starting from the chronological information given by the whole materials of each burials, a sequence of ashes containers have been defined. After the pelike which occurs only in the early Hellenistic period (late 4th-3rd Cent.B.C.) the most attested ashes containers both for Hellenistic (3rd-early 1st Cent.B.C.) and Roman period (1st-2nd Cent.A.D.) are the stamnoi and the chythrai, which are primarily domestic vases, re-used as ashes containers. The evolution of their shapes has been identified in six different types of stamnoi (four Hellenistic and two Roman) and in five type of chytrai (three Hellenistic and two Roman). The most particular ashes containers is a jug intentionally placed upside down inside a calcareous urn. Beside these, amphoras, olla, fragment of dolia walls, calcareous and clay urns are also attested, in less cases and with more variability in the Roman period, even thought the best represented one is the Hellenistic period
Hellenistic Pottery from Butrint (Albania) New Data from the Butrint Roman Forum Excavations (RFE) Project
No full textThanks to its privileged geographical position, Butrint played a key role in relations between
eastern and western Mediterranean Sea throughout the antiquity. While during the Archaic
and Classical periods Butrint fell within the sphere of influence of the nearby colony of Kerkyra,
starting from the Hellenistic period, Butrint gains full political and commercial autonomy
becoming an important harbour in the routes connecting the two sides of the
Mediterranean and it kept this key role during all through the antiquity. During the RFE Project
(2011–2014), important archaeological data concerning all these phases came to light. Regarding
Greek Butrint, deep soundings under the Roman levels, in particular under the
pavement of the forum’s basilica (Unit 21), have brought to light a stratigraphic sequence that
allows us to follow all the main phases of the settlement, from the earliest Corinthian occupation,
until the construction of the Roman forum at the end of the 1st century B. C. In particular,
the study of pottery from this sequence clearly shows the passage from the Corinthian
sphere of influence, attested by the almost absolute predominance of Corinthian pottery in the
Archaic period, to the progressive autonomy during the Hellenistic period when Butrint’s material
culture is fully comparable to that from nearby Epirote sites. In this text, a summary of
the study of early Hellenistic contexts from the RFE project will be presented, focusing on the
features of the new Hellenistic material culture in Butrint
Rhodian Amphoras from Butrint (Albania): Dating, Contexts and Trade
No full textThe paper focuses on Rhodian amphoras from the Butrint Roman Forum Excavations Project 2011–2014, carried out under the direction of the Notre Dame University (Indiana, USA) in collaboration with the Albanian Institute of Archaeology in the ancient city of Butrint (southern Albania). Considering their great informative potential, Rhodian amphoras are studied in terms of both dating and trade, focusing on the contexts they come from, on precise dates given by stamps and on the contribution of Rhodian amphoras to investigate and assess the commercial trade of Hellenistic Butrint
Contatti commerciali nel basso Ionio tra l’età ellenistica e l’età imperiale: i dati delle anfore da Butrinto
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Hellenistic “Corinthian type B” amphorae from Butrint (southern Albania): reconsidering their typology and their role in the regional Hellenistic economy
No full textCorinthian types are the most represented amphorae in all Hellenistic and pre-Hellenistic contexts
from the Butrint Roman Forum Excavations (RFE) Project 2011–2014 (conducted by
the University of Notre Dame and the Albanian Institute of Archaeology), and especially the
type B. The paper thus focuses on Hellenistic Corinthian type B from Butrint, trying to contribute
to both the main research themes on Corinthian type B amphorae: their morphological
evolution and the identification of their production sites. First of all, this paper wants to present
an updated typology of Hellenistic Corinthian type B amphorae from Butrint. The great
number of sherds of this type from the RFE Project allows, indeed, to follow the evolution
from the Classical type up to the late 3rd cent. B. C. The typology is based on both the available
previous study on the evolution of the type (basically C. G. Koehler’s global studies on
Corinthian amphorae and D. Kourkoumelis’ on Corinthian type B from Kerkyra) and on stratigraphical
data from the Butrint excavations, together with pottery finds amphorae are in association
with. At the same time, the paper will try to contextualize Hellenistic Corinthian type
B from Butrint within the broader framework of the site’s economy and more generally of its
regional background, following different topics: the earlier hypothesis about local production,
the importance of the related agricultural exploitation of the region, the meaning behind the
choice of the Corinthian-Kerkyrean model for transport amphorae and the regional distribution
of these amphorae
Il culto di Aristeo a Corcira
No full textThe topic here presented is part of a PhD project on the archaeology of cult in Kerkyra and its
peraia from the 8th to the 4th century B.C., aimed to investigate worships attested on the island
and on its projection on the mainland and their archaeological evidences. Among all the attested
cult identities, Aristaeus is certainly one of the most interesting figure: being strictly connected to
the Euboea, the study of his presence in Kerkyra can indeed contribute to the long standing debate
on the Euboeans presence on the island before the Corinthian colonization. The paper
therefore wants to argue his presence in ancient Kerkyra, starting from the analysis of available
archaeological data and then trying to contextualize them in the light of both literary sources and
relationships to other Euboean mythological references known for the island
Continuità e trasformazioni a Butrinto fra II e I sec.a.C.: la ceramica ellenistica.
No full textThe 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
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