WEST SANCTUARY OF ILION (TROY) IN THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN AND FLAVIAN PERIODS

Billur Tekkök

Roman period pottery recovered from the West Sanctuary of Troy provides a wealth of data for ritual and social activity at the site. Large deposits of pottery are associated with the major building activities in the Sanctuary; building of an Altar in the Augustan period, a Grandstand in the Flavian period and several alterations in the Julio-Claudian and later periods. Datable ceramic assemblages reveal changes in Ilion's external affairs from the last quarter of the first century BC to the end of the first century AD.

An analysis of the pottery helps us to establish the nature of the Imperial activity at Ilion. During the Roman period, the importance of the site to the Romans is well represented by the rising amount of Italian imports. The majority is the Italian Thin-walled cups and beakers, as well as lamps; however, examples of Italian sigillata are comparatively less. The Phocaean Thin-walled cups replace the Italian imports from the third-quarter of the first century AD. Eastern sigillata groups; Pergamene-Çandarli and Eastern sigillata B wares form more than 70 percent of the fine tableware in the first century AD. The cult of Samothracian gods may have continued in the Roman period and specific cult activities may have been performed at the Grandstand of the Sanctuary.

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