Affiliation:
1. University of Warsaw Faculty of Archaeology
Abstract
The army outpost on Biğān Island on the Euphrates (in Iraq) was excavated in the early 1980s, but it is only now that a thorough examination of the material from the Roman layers has been completed, giving grounds for a revisiting of issues related to the site’s chronology, function and role in the frontier zone between Rome and the empires of the East. The archaeological sources, mainly pottery and coins, are discussed in light of the army post’s island location and its role in interregional and long-distance trade. Of greatest interest in the pottery category are the transport/storage vessels that belong to the same family as the so-called Torpedo Jars.
Funder
Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Sociology and Political Science,Infectious Diseases,Communication,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Forestry,Education,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous),Accounting,Business and International Management,General Engineering,Law,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Law,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Reference52 articles.
1. Amodio, M. (2007). La classe di ceramica da cucina “brittle ware” rinvenuta a Tell Barri (Siria). In M. Sartre (ed.), Productions et échanges dans la Syrie grecque et romaine. Actes du colloque de Tours, juin 2003 (=Topoi Supplement 8) (pp. 231–248). Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen
2. Amodio, M. (2008). La “Brittle Ware” da Tell Barri. In R. Pierobon Benoit (ed.), Tell Barri: storia di un insediamento antico tra Oriente e Occidente (pp. 322–336). Naples: Macchiaroli
3. Begley, V., Francis Jr., P., Karashima, N., Raman, K.V., Sidebotham, S.E., and Will, E.L. (2004). The ancient port of Arikamedu: New excavations and researches 1989–1992, II (=Mémoires archéologiques 22/2). Pondichéry: Centre d’histoire et d’archéologie, École française d’Extrême-Orient
4. Casal, J.M. (1949). Fouilles de Virampatnam-Arikamedu: rapport de l’Inde et de l’occident aux environs de l’ère chrétienne. Paris: C. Klincksieck
5. Cherry, D. (2007). The frontier zones. In W. Scheidel, I. Morris, and R.P. Saller (eds), The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world (pp. 720–740). Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press