The Scale of Sagalassos Red Slip Ware Production - Reconstructions of Local Need and Production Output of Roman Imperial Tableware

Year 2015, Issue: 18, 129 - 158, 01.06.2015

Rinse Wıllet Jeroen Poblome

Abstract

At the site of Sagalassos, located in southwestern Asia Minor in the ancient region of Pisidia, evidence for the production of tableware during Roman Imperial times has been accumulated during the past decades through archaeological research1. The tableware produced here Sagalassos Red Slip Ware or SRSW , was found on sites both in and around the territory of the ancient town, at a range of inner Anatolian sites, but also as far away as Aquileia Italy , Carthage Tunisia , Lepcis Magna Libya , Hermopolis Magna Egypt , Hama Syria and Tel Anafa Israel

Sagalassos Kırmızı Astarlı Mallarının Üretim Ölçeği Yerel Talep ve Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi Yemek Takımı Üretim Çıktısının Rekonstrüksiyonları

Abstract

Bu makale Sagalassos’un yerel çanak çömlek üretim ölçeğini ve Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi’ndeki yerel talep ile arasındaki ilişkiyi irdelenmektedir. Batı Toroslardaki yerleşimde onlarca yıl sürdürülen yoğun araştırmalar sonucu Doğu banliyösünde çoğunlukla atölyeler ve keramik çöplüğü şeklinde önemli miktarda yemek takımı Sagalassos Kırmızı Astarlı Mallar veya SRSW kalıntıları ortaya çıkartılmıştır.

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