Seeing Red: New economic and social perspectives on Gallo-Roman terra sigilata (BICS Supplement 102)

Michael Fulford
University of London Press
2013-10-04

<p>Mass produced at a variety of locations, principally in Gaul and Germany, between the beginning of the first century and the mid third century CE, Gallo-Roman <em>terra sigillata</em> was consumed in very large quantities across the western provinces of the Roman Empire.</p><p>The large number of records – over 425,000 – now published in<em>Names on Terra Sigillata</em> – the potters, their individual name dies, the associated forms, and the numbers recovered from find sites – have provided an international resource for fresh, quantitatively-based approaches to the study of terra sigillata, as presented here in <em>Seeing Red</em>.</p><p>Twenty-six essays by leading international scholars in the field cover a range of themes including: the organization of production, distribution (inter- and intra-provincial as well as beyond the frontiers), chronology, linguistics, consumption, deposition, and iconography. The geographical scope ranges from Britain in the north-west of the Roman Empire, to the Iberian peninsula, and the western Mediterranean in the south, and from France to the lower Danube, including the Czech Republic and Poland in Central Europe.</p>

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Seeing Red: New economic and social perspectives on Gallo-Roman terra sigilata (BICS Supplement 102)

Michael Fulford

University of London Press

2013-10-04

<p>Mass produced at a variety of locations, principally in Gaul and Germany, between the beginning of the first century and the mid third century CE, Gallo-Roman <em>terra sigillata</em> was consumed in very large quantities across the western provinces of the Roman Empire.</p><p>The large number of records – over 425,000 – now published in<em>Names on Terra Sigillata</em> – the potters, their individual name dies, the associated forms, and the numbers recovered from find sites – have provided an international resource for fresh, quantitatively-based approaches to the study of terra sigillata, as presented here in <em>Seeing Red</em>.</p><p>Twenty-six essays by leading international scholars in the field cover a range of themes including: the organization of production, distribution (inter- and intra-provincial as well as beyond the frontiers), chronology, linguistics, consumption, deposition, and iconography. The geographical scope ranges from Britain in the north-west of the Roman Empire, to the Iberian peninsula, and the western Mediterranean in the south, and from France to the lower Danube, including the Czech Republic and Poland in Central Europe.</p>

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  • Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
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  • Pottery, ceramics and glass crafts
  • Classical Studies ⇒ Classical Reception