How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery

Astrid Oyen

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

How Things Make History

The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery

Astrid Oyen

Volume 23 in the series Amsterdam Archaeological Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529933

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About this book

Van Oyen offers a fresh analysis in which objects are no longer passive props, but rather they actively shape historical trajectories.

Author / Editor information

Oyen Astrid :

Astrid Van Oyen is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cornell University. Her interests concern the archaeology and history of Roman Italy and the Western Provinces, with a focus on empire and imperialism, materiality, and socio-economics. She has written about post-colonialism, networks, Roman villas, and city-countryside relations. She is the PI of the Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP), investigating dynamics of rural innovation in Roman Italy.

Reviews

"As a Roman pottery specialist, I found this volume to be a very welcome study opening up new approaches to the analysis of ancient ceramics, or material culture in general. The non-specialist, or non-theoretical archaeologist, will need to concentrate to appreciate the complex ideas contained within the text, but it is worth the effort." - Victoria Leitch, University of Leicester, Journal of Roman Studies, 108 (2018)

"This study constitutes a highly theoretical, conceptual and, at the same time, detailed technical study of sigillata for the 21st century." - Martha W. Baldwin Bowsky, University of the Pacific, CA in Ancient West & East Volume 16, 2017

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Preface Open Access Download PDF	ix
1 On avoiding retrospection Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Bright red shiny pots: is there more to terra sigillata? Open Access Download PDF	11
3 Practice before type: sigillata production at Lezoux (1st–2nd centuries AD) Open Access Download PDF	33
4 Points of redefinition: distribution, firing lists, and kiln loads (1st century AD) Open Access Download PDF	59
5 The question of stability: sigillata and ‘Rhenish’ wares between Lezoux and Trier (2nd-3rd centuries AD) Open Access Download PDF	93
6 Before meaning: reproduction and consumption of terra sigillata and ‘Rhenish’ wares in Essex (2nd–3rd centuries AD) Open Access Download PDF	115
7 Things in history/things as history Open Access Download PDF	131
Appendix 1. Stamp assemblages Open Access Download PDF	137
References Open Access Download PDF	145
Index Open Access Download PDF	167

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 184
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Material culture; material agency; terra sigillata; Roman archaeology

eBook

Published: February 23, 2016
ISBN: 9789048529933