This article presents key results of the excavations of the unique H & oslash;lland site in Ogna, J ae ren in southwest Norway (cal. date range 203 BC-AD 553). Strategically located in a core region for ceramic production in western Scandinavia, H & oslash;lland's pyrotechnology peaked in the troubled Migration Period (AD 400-550). Its status as the only well-documented workshop site of this kind underscores H & oslash;lland's importance for future research. This study aims (1) to establish a firm pyrotechnological and ceramic production chronology for H & oslash;lland and (2) to situate the site within a wider frame of craft knowledge networks and sociopolitical dynamics during a key transitional and formative phase in Scandinavia. Our results provide a vital alternative to retrospective narratives of such crafts' demise as part of a 6th-century societal collapse. This study argues for the importance of understanding the dynamics of the preceding 5th century. We present a social chronology of resilience and senescence for the two centuries leading up to the mid-6th century, situating H & oslash;lland in regional power dynamics, long-distance connectivity and the main flows of craft knowledge, ideas, and materials.
The paper presents the Roman era pottery discovered during the 1988 and 2000 rescue archaeological excavations at Niculiţel–Cornet, Tulcea County, Romania, prior to the construction of the methane gas pipe in the area. The assemblage consists of pottery of Pontic, Oriental and Western origins, while the functional categories represented are kitckenware, tableware, amphorae. Handmade pottery of local tradition is also present. The fine ware is represented by terra sigillata, barbotine decorated vessels, Pontic sigillata and imitations. The majority of the pottery can be dated to the 2nd-3rd c. AD, with some fragments characteristic of a slightly earlier period, and other types dated up to the 5th c. AD. The present catalogue represents a part of the discovered Roman pottery, the rest of material being scheduled for future analysis and publication.
Resilience is a concept that has become more and more common during the last decade.Originally used in phys-ics and psychology,just recently it has been transferred to the field of urban planning,urban development and cultural heritage.The purpose of this Special Issue of the international journal Built Heritage is to examine,and discuss,how the concept of resilience can be related to cultural heritage.We understand resilience here in the sense of the SHELTER Resilience definition which defines different phases before,during and after a disas-ter or crisis.
The palace of King Adad-nārāri III (810-783 BC) occupied the western part of the center of Kalḫu (Nimrud) which is bordered from the north by the palace of King Ašur-naṣer-apli II and from the lower south side by the southwestern palace of the King of Ašur-aḫi-idina. This king built the palace for his mother queen Sammu-Ramat (Semiramis). The palace was excavated by the British School in 1953 headed by Max Mallowan.In 1993, the Iraqi Department of Antiquities formed an excavation body headed by the researcher and worked in it for four weeks. Some building units were discovered including a room on the eastern side built with perfection and on its walls are thick clay daub mud coated with white color, on which drawings with plant elements were implemented some of which are in the form of pomegranates of multiple colors. It was also noted that the lower parts of the walls were coated with a thin layer of bitumen. In the eastern wall found a group of building mud-bricks constructed in an upright form in two levels and in the form of a half arch that includes inside it an entrance closed with mud-brick. It is believed that this room was used as a bathroom with evidence of the presence of a stream constructed with slopping towards the eastern side and continues to the outside of the room. The floor of this room was paved with bricks that some of it was removed. Excavations also discovered other rooms paved with bricks and others were empty from pavement. Two thresholds of blue alabaster were discovered one, of which is the entrance to the southern room and the other between the third and fourth rooms and on their its walls are cuneiform writings mentioning the name of King Adad-nārāri III and his titles and some of his achievements.
