Some remarks on military pottery in Aquincum

Vámos, Péter

doi:10.1556/aarch.63.2012.2.7

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“…‘Legionary wares’ have been variously defined by the range of finishes and functional groups associated with military sites; in a handful of cases their production has been attributed to known military kilnworks. While Ettlinger first outlined a relationship between pottery assemblages at different military sites across the northern frontier, coining the term ‘legionary pottery’ (, as referenced in Vamos , 402–3), Greene further and more loosely adapted the definition of ‘legionary wares’ to include a wider range of pottery styles, extending across a greater geographical frame. His definition encompassed a locally uncommon range of finewares influenced by metal and glass prototypes and finished with ‘red slip‐coating, marbling, slip‐painting, or barbotine work, moulded or stamped decoration, mica‐dusting and lead‐glazing’, as well as coarsewares in forms such as flagons, bowls and mortaria (Greene , 113).…”

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“…Other discussions have focused on the personal backgrounds of the producers themselves – potters who display significant versatility and skill in manufacturing a range of pottery types. This has been seen as reflecting either mobile civilian potters following the military and working in a ‘foreign’ tradition (Greene ; Vamos ) or local civilian potters commissioned by the military to manufacture specific forms (Swan ); or, occasionally, wares appear to have been manufactured by legionaries working within the ranks of the military itself (Haalebos and Koster , 69–70). The complicated nature of a highly mobile consumer base with complex supply chains makes the collective interpretation of these wares particularly challenging.…”

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“…The presence of a multi‐furnace ‘battery’ or ‘kilnworks’ has been documented at comparable legionary ceramic production sites, although Jerusalem has the only example thus far identified in its region. Kilnworks at Holdeurn in the Netherlands (Holwerda ; Holwerda and Braat ) and Holt in Wales (Grimes ) have been published, with similar military workshops proposed for Vindonissa at Hunzenschwil‐Rupperswil (Schaer ; Arnold ) and Aquincum (Vamos ). The most extensively excavated legionary kilnworks at Holt, Holdeurn and Jerusalem display seven to ten kilns in a linear or U‐shaped orientation with the stoke holes oriented inward, in such a way that multiple kilns could be managed simultaneously by a single workgroup.…”

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The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks: Contextualizing Ceramic Manufacture and ‘Legionary Wares’

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Arubas

2018

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The Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks at Binyanei Ha'uma (Jerusalem) is one of the few such legionary production sites to be excavated in recent decades and the only legionary kilnworks to be found in the Near East and Asia Minor to date. The study of its production-related material therefore offers a necessary complement to consumer-focused discussions of so-called 'legionary wares' by providing a more refined contextualization of ceramic manufacturing within a military context. Detailed analyses of production techniques and technologies, as well as comparative study of contemporaneous legionary kilnworks in other regions and other ceramic production sites from the eastern provinces, serve to contextualize the Jerusalem site and offer new perspectives on the technological choices that were made in such settings. These technological choices demonstrate a balance between some commonly shared structural features of production and labour organizations, with locally specific circumstances of raw material availability and technological knowledge. SITUATING LEGIONARY WARESThe Roman military and its movements have long been seen as major stimuli to local and regional economies of the period. Undoubtedly, the arrival of soldiers sometimes numbering in the tens of thousands would have substantially broadened a local consumer baseeither through military contracts or spending power of individual soldiers paid in silver (Erdkamp 2002). Longdistance movement of commodities such as wine and olive oil in amphorae specifically for military consumption demonstrates that the imperial reach of military supply lines could be substantial, with its economic impact felt at both regional and local levels (Monsieur 2004). Military economic networks were concerned, however, not only with supplying raw foodstuffs (and drink), but also with the means to prepare and consume them, as observable from assemblages of ceramic cooking vessels and tablewares found at military sites. These assemblages of so-called 'legionary wares' typically display certain similarities between contemporary military sites (even at opposite ends of the empire), while at the same time contrasting with assemblages from neighbouring local communities.

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Section: Situating Legionary Waresmentioning

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Section: Situating Legionary Waresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Production Techniques and Technologies: Outlining Evidence Amentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks: Contextualizing Ceramic Manufacture and ‘Legionary Wares’

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Pottery industry of the Aquincum military town

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Production of ceramic building material in ancient Viminacium

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2022

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The technology of brickmaking was introduced to the area of Viminacium by the Romans. The development and growth of the urban settlement in the 1st-4th century necessitated the need for huge quantities of construction materials. Large-scale production of ceramic building materials, which are often abbreviated to CBM, is attested both by the numerous finds of the material itself, as well as traces of the manufacturing process. More than 15 kilns and several structures used in the process were discovered in the vicinity of Viminacium. Still, the subject of Viminacium CBM production has only been modestly studied. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyse this production, namely the characteristics and organisation of its processes, based on the results of archaeological excavations and previously published research. To achieve this goal, we focused on the layout of the particular manufacturing sites, and the production process organisation, together with the necessary review of the characteristics of the found kilns and other structures used in the production process.

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Some remarks on military pottery in Aquincum

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The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks: Contextualizing Ceramic Manufacture and ‘Legionary Wares’

The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks: Contextualizing Ceramic Manufacture and ‘Legionary Wares’

Pottery industry of the Aquincum military town

Production of ceramic building material in ancient Viminacium

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