TRADE: Transformations of Adriatic Europe (2nd–9th Centuries AD)

Spanning the period between the 2nd and 9th centuries, this volume collects 45 papers dealing with the Adriatic area that aim to create a new dataset for the historical reconstruction of processes related to forms of settlement, aspects of production, and trade and the movement of pottery and other craft products between its two coas

TRADE: Transformations of Adriatic Europe presents the proceedings of a 2016 conference held in Zadar (Croatia) which analysed the transformative phenomena of Late Antiquity in an area where research has been comparatively scarce and results less widely known. The contributions span the period between the 2nd and 9th centuries, that is from roughly the establishment of the Severan dynasty to the end of the Carolingian period. The volume collects 45 papers dealing with the Adriatic area that aim to create a new dataset for the historical reconstruction of processes related to forms of settlement, aspects of production, and trade and the movement of pottery and other craft products between its two coasts, here examined either through regional synthesis or the presentation of individual study contexts.

Preface - The Editors Invited lecture The Adriatic route of the Attic sarcophagus trade - Nenad Cambi Regional trends of Late Roman and early medieval urban transformations Mutations of the late antique urban landscape in Byllis and other cities in Epirus Nova (5th-7th century) - Pascale Chevalier Franco-Albanian archaeological collaboration (2012-2015): research on the topography of Durres - Eduard Shehi, Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia and Yann Mannon The imperial presence in Dalmatian epigraphy from Decius to Diocletian. A note on the epigraphic landscape - Mattia Vitelli Casella The Spolia phenomenon in the architecture of Dalmatian towns - Vedrana Jovic Gazic Diocletian's Palace: monument of the new social system - tetrarchy - Ivana Jadric-Kucan Early medieval architectural adaptation of the early Christian churches in the territory of Zadar - Ana Jordan Knezevic Pesaro. A necropolis from the 6th-7th centuries AD, adjacent to the Via Flaminia - Laura Cerri, Chiara Delpino, Vanessa Lani, Claudia Maestri and Erika Valli Cupra Marittima (Marche): transformations of the 'villa with nymphaeum' from the 2nd through the 6th century AD - Nicoletta Frapiccini, Federica Galazzi and Loris Salvucci The periphery of the Mediterranean - Aguntum (Southwestern Noricum) in Late Antiquity - Martin Auer, Sabine Deschler-Erb and Veronika Sossau Late Antique landscapes, fortifications and churches in Adriatic rural areas Mapping the early medieval shores of the Balkans - Dominik Heher Transformations of a Post-Roman countryside: first results from field survey and excavations in the Upper Vjosa valley (SE Albania) - Ardit Miti and Eglantina Serjani Wine and olive oil in Roman Histria and Dalmatia. Production centres in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - Jana Kopackova Transformations of baptismal complexes in central Dalmatia during the late antique period - Ana Miskovic Banjace - an example of rural architecture of the 5th and 6th centuries - Ivana Ozanic Roguljic and Ina Miloglav Rural landscape transformations in Roman Aenona - Martina Dubolnic Glavan, Igor Kulenovic and Neda Kulenovic Issues related to the transformation of Late Antique fortresses on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea: the example of the Benedictine monastery of Sts. Cosmas and Damian located on the hill Cokovac, on the island of Pasman - Josipa Baraka Perica and Bozana Maletic Stivanje field in Telascica Nature Park - from Antiquity into the Middle Ages - Jona Petesic Crkvisce-Bukovlje near Generalski Stol - Late Antique hillfort. Results of the 2012-2015 excavations - Ana Azinovic Bebek and Ivana Hirschler Maric Continuity of use of the landscape of the Vinodol valley (northern Liburnia, NE Adriatic): communications, settlements and surveillance points from prehistory to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan, Ranko Starac and Ana Konestra Rural landscapes in Istrian Late Antiquity - Robert Matijasic and Davor Bulic Landscape, resource management and plant economy in the Parentium area (Croatia) between the Imperial period and the beginning of the Middle Ages. First results of archaeobotanical investigation - Christophe Vaschalde, Margaux Tillier, Nuria Rovira, Frederic Guibal, David Kaniewski, Charlotte De Bruxelles, Marie-Brigitte Carre, Corinne Rousse, Gaetano Bencic, Vladimir Kovacic and Davor Munda Stancija Blek (Tar-Vabriga): craft activities and traces of transformations from a villa to a medieval settlement - Ana Konestra, Bartul siljeg and Gaetano Bencic Settlement and economy in early medieval Franciacorta - Simone Sestito New excavations at Santa Maria in Pado Vetere and in the Po Delta (2014-2015) - Mario Cesarano and Carla Corti The Late Antique and medieval landscape to the north-west of Ravenna. The Bassa Romandiola Project - Marco Cavalazzi, Michele Abballe, Anna Benato and Michela De Felicibus Population and rural landscape organization in Numana (Ancona, Italy) between the 2nd and 9th centuries: preliminary notes - Maurizio Bilo and Sonia Virgili Material culture in Late Antiquity: trends in the Adriatic region Crecchio Ware: a special connection between Abruzzo and Egypt? - Archer Martin A look through the glass - glass trade on the Adriatic and its hinterland in the imperial period - Irena Lazar Adriatic imports to Rome: an insight from the wine amphorae - Giorgio Rizzo and Cristina Molari Late Roman pottery standardization: Hayes 85 as a case study - Miguel Busto-Zapico and Enrico Cirelli Expanding African trade in the Adriatic during the early Imperial age - Diana Dobreva The trade networks of Butrint within the mid-Imperial Adriatic (2nd-4th century AD): the amphorae from the Roman Forum Excavations Project - Gloria Bolzoni Export of Dalmatian sarcophagi in the 6th century: chronology and topography - Ivan Basic Aquileia, Canale Anfora - finds from 1988: pottery as a marker of trade - Patrizia Donat, Paola Maggi, Paola Ventura and Ella Zulini Aquileia, Canale Anfora - the 2004-2005 excavation: commercial trade between the 2nd and the 3rd century AD witnessed by terra sigillata - Patrizia Donat, Paola Maggi, Franca Maselli Scotti and Ella Zulini The Mediterranean inside the city. The Late Antique imports from the Padua Baptistery excavation - Giovanna Ganzarolli The limestone sarcophagus trade from the quarries on Brac: New evidence from Ravenna and the Northern Adriatic - Paola Novara Amphorae from a medieval context of the Monastery of St Severo in Classe (RA) - Bianca Maria Mancini Economy and trade in the mid- Imperial Adriatic between Classe and the Mediterranean - Francesca Assirelli Soapstone from the northern Marches: Reconstruction of the ancient trade routes to Senigallia in the upper and middle Adriatic between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Maria Teresa Gatto Short and long range trade in the Roman Adriatic (3rd-6th century). The material culture: between counterfeit goods and original products - Carlo De Mitri Changing trade routes in Late Antique and early medieval Cicolano: evidence of Adriatic and other imported pottery at the San Martino site(Torano di Borgorose, Rieti, Italy) - Elizabeth Colantoni, Gabriele Colantoni, Maria Rosa Lucidi, Jeffrey A. Stevens and Francesco Tommasi,

Preface – The Editors

Invited lecture

The Adriatic route of the Attic sarcophagus trade – Nenad Cambi

Regional trends of Late Roman and early medieval urban transformations

Mutations of the late antique urban landscape in Byllis and other cities in Epirus Nova (5th-7th century) – Pascale Chevalier

Franco-Albanian archaeological collaboration (2012-2015): research on the topography of Durrës – Eduard Shehi, Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia and Yann Mannon

The imperial presence in Dalmatian epigraphy from Decius to Diocletian. A note on the epigraphic landscape – Mattia Vitelli Casella

The Spolia phenomenon in the architecture of Dalmatian towns – Vedrana Jović Gazić

Diocletian’s Palace: monument of the new social system – tetrarchy – Ivana Jadrić-Kučan

Early medieval architectural adaptation of the early Christian churches in the territory of Zadar – Ana Jordan Knežević

Pesaro. A necropolis from the 6th-7th centuries AD, adjacent to the Via Flaminia – Laura Cerri, Chiara Delpino, Vanessa Lani, Claudia Maestri and Erika Valli

Cupra Marittima (Marche): transformations of the ‘villa with nymphaeum’ from the 2nd through the 6th century AD – Nicoletta Frapiccini, Federica Galazzi and Loris Salvucci

The periphery of the Mediterranean – Aguntum (Southwestern Noricum) in Late Antiquity – Martin Auer, Sabine Deschler-Erb and Veronika Sossau

Late Antique landscapes, fortifications and churches in Adriatic rural areas

Mapping the early medieval shores of the Balkans – Dominik Heher

Transformations of a Post-Roman countryside: first results from field survey and excavations in the Upper Vjosa valley (SE Albania) – Ardit Miti and Eglantina Serjani

Wine and olive oil in Roman Histria and Dalmatia. Production centres in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Jana Kopáčková

Transformations of baptismal complexes in central Dalmatia during the late antique period – Ana Mišković

Banjače – an example of rural architecture of the 5th and 6th centuries – Ivana Ožanić Roguljić and Ina Miloglav

Rural landscape transformations in Roman Aenona – Martina Dubolnić Glavan, Igor Kulenović and Neda Kulenović

Issues related to the transformation of Late Antique fortresses on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea: the example of the Benedictine monastery of Sts. Cosmas and Damian located on the hill Ćokovac, on the island of Pašman – Josipa Baraka Perica and Božana Maletić

Stivanje field in Telašćica Nature Park – from Antiquity into the Middle Ages – Jona Petešić

Crkvišće-Bukovlje near Generalski Stol – Late Antique hillfort. Results of the 2012-2015 excavations – Ana Azinović Bebek and Ivana Hirschler Marić

Continuity of use of the landscape of the Vinodol valley (northern Liburnia, NE Adriatic): communications, settlements and surveillance points from prehistory to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan, Ranko Starac and Ana Konestra

Rural landscapes in Istrian Late Antiquity – Robert Matijašić and Davor Bulić

Landscape, resource management and plant economy in the Parentium area (Croatia) between the Imperial period and the beginning of the Middle Ages. First results of archaeobotanical investigation – Christophe Vaschalde, Margaux Tillier, Nuria Rovira, Frédéric Guibal, David Kaniewski, Charlotte De Bruxelles, Marie-Brigitte Carre, Corinne Rousse, Gaetano Benčić, Vladimir Kovačić and Davor Munda

Stancija Blek (Tar-Vabriga): craft activities and traces of transformations from a villa to a medieval settlement – Ana Konestra, Bartul Šiljeg and Gaetano Benčić

Settlement and economy in early medieval Franciacorta – Simone Sestito

New excavations at Santa Maria in Pado Vetere and in the Po Delta (2014-2015) – Mario Cesarano and Carla Corti

The Late Antique and medieval landscape to the north-west of Ravenna. The Bassa Romandiola Project – Marco Cavalazzi, Michele Abballe, Anna Benato and Michela De Felicibus

Population and rural landscape organization in Numana (Ancona, Italy) between the 2nd and 9th centuries: preliminary notes – Maurizio Bilò and Sonia Virgili

Material culture in Late Antiquity: trends in the Adriatic region

Crecchio Ware: a special connection between Abruzzo and Egypt? – Archer Martin

A look through the glass – glass trade on the Adriatic and its hinterland in the imperial period – Irena Lazar

Adriatic imports to Rome: an insight from the wine amphorae – Giorgio Rizzo and Cristina Molari

Late Roman pottery standardization: Hayes 85 as a case study – Miguel Busto-Zapico and Enrico Cirelli

Expanding African trade in the Adriatic during the early Imperial age – Diana Dobreva

The trade networks of Butrint within the mid-Imperial Adriatic (2nd-4th century AD): the amphorae from the Roman Forum Excavations Project – Gloria Bolzoni

Export of Dalmatian sarcophagi in the 6th century: chronology and topography – Ivan Basić

Aquileia, Canale Anfora – finds from 1988: pottery as a marker of trade – Patrizia Donat, Paola Maggi, Paola Ventura and Ella Zulini

Aquileia, Canale Anfora – the 2004-2005 excavation: commercial trade between the 2nd and the 3rd century AD witnessed by terra sigillata – Patrizia Donat, Paola Maggi, Franca Maselli Scotti and Ella Zulini

The Mediterranean inside the city. The Late Antique imports from the Padua Baptistery excavation – Giovanna Ganzarolli

The limestone sarcophagus trade from the quarries on Brač: New evidence from Ravenna and the Northern Adriatic – Paola Novara

Amphorae from a medieval context of the Monastery of St Severo in Classe (RA) – Bianca Maria Mancini

Economy and trade in the mid- Imperial Adriatic between Classe and the Mediterranean – Francesca Assirelli

Soapstone from the northern Marches: Reconstruction of the ancient trade routes to Senigallia in the upper and middle Adriatic between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages – Maria Teresa Gatto

Short and long range trade in the Roman Adriatic (3rd-6th century). The material culture: between counterfeit goods and original products     – Carlo De Mitri

Changing trade routes in Late Antique and early medieval Cicolano: evidence of Adriatic and other imported pottery at the San Martino site(Torano di Borgorose, Rieti, Italy) – Elizabeth Colantoni, Gabriele Colantoni, Maria Rosa Lucidi, Jeffrey A. Stevens and Francesco Tommasi

• Edited by Igor Borzić
• Edited by Enrico Cirelli
• Edited by Kristina Jelinčić Vučković
• Edited by Ana Konestra
• Edited by Ivana Ožanić Roguljić