THE ROMANIZATION OF PISIDIA. A CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF DIALECTICAL EXCHANGE: A CERAMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Jeroen Poblome

In 1987 a potters' quarter was discovered at ancient Sagalassos (SW Asia Minor, Pisidia). Obviously, the first research priorities were, on the one hand, to characterize the typo-chronological evolution of the locally produced wares and, on the other hand, to document the local production organization with extensive archaeometric and excavation programs.

This paper aims at taking the evidence one step further and wishes to integrate the evolution of the local pottery assemblages into wider socio-economical and cultural processes. The paper wishes to examine the stylistic background of the evolution of the ceramic assemblages and evaluate in what ways the growing and continuous influence of Rome may have influenced the concept of the locally produced pottery. For the region of Pisidia, several key moments of Romanization have been recognized, as, for instance, the first integration of the region into a Republican province upon the creation of the provincia Asia, the pacification of the Taurus mountains and the creation of the provincia Galatia by Augustus, and the conversion of the region into a supplier of strategic military commodities during the third century AD. These focal points should be measured against continuous processes, such as the social mobility of the local elite. This paper wishes to examine in how far the production and consumption of household artifacts may reflect and interact with such cultural, political and socio-economic patterning.

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