Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia

Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia Abstract: The paper discusses lamps of Tripolitanian production found in Aquileia during recent research projects (sewagesystem rescue excavation between 1968 and 1972 in the city center and the excavation of the so-called Domus of Titus Macer at the site of the former Cossar property) as well as known otherwise from the northern Adriatic region. The authors present typologies and distribution maps, and consider on these grounds the trade routes traveled by Tripolitanian lamps to Aquileia. This leads them in turn to a look at commercial patterns reflected in this, including Aquileia’s role as a rich harbor city rooted in the Adriatic distribution system and a hub for the distribution of goods to the hinterland settlements. Keywords: Tripolitanian oil lamps, Aquileia, sewage-system excavations, Domus of Titus Macer, Adriatic distribution system More than 25 years have passed since the latest study dedicated to the Tripolitanian lamps found in the northern Adriatic, the only one completed so far, which led Philipp Pröttel to speculate on the reasons why these lighting devices were transported such a long way from their regular area of distribution (Pröttel 1991). In Pröttel’s study of Tripolitanian lamps in the region of the Adriatic Sea, Aquileia appears as an unexplainable void, despite its role as a commercial harbor and key redistribution hub in the Northern Adriatic. As a re- PAM 28/1 (2019) Diana Dobreva1 Sabrina Zago2 1 2 Università degli Studi di Verona Università degli Studi di Padova Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 28/1 Dobreva and Zago 2019: 217–240 DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.7043 regional typologies sult of recent studies on lighting devices discovered in archaeological contexts in Aquileia, which have identified some fragments of Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps, the gap has now been proved to be one in documentation rather than in real data. The assemblage in question is composed of six fragments from rescue excavations carried out in 1968–1972, preceding the construction of a modern sewage system in the city of Aquileia. Added to this are a few finds from recent excavations by the University of Padua at the site of the former Cossar property. The sample presented here is small, yet noteworthy, because of their infrequency in regions away from where they were originally produced in Tripolitania. The lamps are easily recognizable from a morphological point of view. The first to describe their technological and iconographical similarities with Tripolitanian Red Slip ware was John W. Hayes 1 2 3 4 218 Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia (1972: 314–315). Their broad, flat shoulder, always abundantly decorated with geometric and/or vegetal motifs in relief,1 is easily the most distinctive element of these lamps. The shape of the discus has been used by scholars as a criterion for typological classification:2 – discus with continuous ridge around it = Atlante form XIII; – discus with a continuous ridge and parallel ridges forming a nozzle channel = Atlante form XIV; – circular or elongated discus, bordered by a continuous ridge forming a nozzle channel opening onto the wick hole = Atlante form XV. The Tripolitanian lamps were initially thought to be a product of workshops in southern Tunisia, but both archaeological3 and archaeometric studies (Bonifay et al. 2013: 130) have led to the recognition of the microregion of Leptis Magna as the place of manufacture.4 Production seems to have started shortly after The variety of combinations observed in the iconographic repertoire of decorative motifs, despite the limited typology of the latter, often preclude direct parallels; for a detailed list of the main decorative motifs, see Joly 1974: 43. Hayes (1972: 314–315) identified two types corresponding to Atlante forms XIII and XV, respectively (see Atlante… 1981). In her classification based on purely iconographic premises, Maria Rosaria La Lomia (1971: 9–19) proposed nine variants. Lucilla Anselmino introduced the classification into three variants that is still in use today (Atlante… 1981: 204–207). Publishing the hypogeum of Medina Doga in the late 1990s, Rosa Maria Bonacasa Carra (1998: 135–136) proposed a new sub-classification of Atlante forms XIII (31 variants) and XV (nine variants) based on criteria of an iconographic nature. Furnace waste and very fragmented ceramics were found in the area of Uadi Taraglat (site 91) (Felici and Pentiricci 2002: 1877–1879 and 1885). For the preparation of Tripolitanian soil for ceramic production, see Forti 2010: 335–336. Contrary to widespread opinion it was not Hayes who suggested that the Tripolitan Red Slip ware was actually produced in Tripolitania. He believed that the sandy soil of Tripoli was unsuitable for pottery-making (Hayes 1972: 304; in the same vein also Stefano Tortorella in Atlante… 1981: 137), and it was Sergio Fontana (1996: 89) who first suggested pottery production in Tripolitania based on a significant accumulation of finds in the territories there, a hypothesis later supported by Bonacasa Carra (1998: 137). lychnological sTUDiEs Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago 0 16 m Fig. 1. Aquileia, general plan of the city showing the sites: dots mark the location of trenches with Tripolitanian lamp fragments excavated as part of the modern sewage construction project; box (in yellow) indicates the location of the former Cossar property; inset, hypothetical reconstruction of the so-called Domus of Titus Macer from the 3rd century AD (University of Padua | domus plan S. Berto and T. Luongo; map after Bertacchi 2003) PAM 28/1 (2019) 219 regional typologies AD 310–320, as suggested by the limited available excavation data. The Atlante XIII form continued to be produced until the beginning of the 5th century AD (Pröttel 1991: Col. 93, fragment from the castrum of Ajdovščina from a “4th or early 5th century AD” context; Bonifay et al. 2013: 106), while the Atlante XV form appeared by the end of the 4th century AD and continued until the end of the 5th century AD. Some of the latest specimens were still being manufactured at the beginning of the 6th century AD (Bailey 1985: 87ff., unidentified fragments of Tripolitanian lamps from 5th and 6th century AD contexts in Sidi Khrebish/ Benghazi). One example each of forms Atlante XIII and XV has been recognized in the material from Aquileia, whereas the other four fragments are too poorly preserved for anything but a general classification in the broader group of Tripolitanian lamps. One example represents a Tripolitanian oil lamp, but made in common ware. The new data revises Pröttel’s distribution patterns of Tripolitanian lamps, setting the range of northern Adriatic discoveries in a new perspective. Even though the quantities of finds from Aquileia are not spectacular, it still raises the question of how these particular oil lamps got from Trip5 220 Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia olitania to the upper Adriatic, which, in turn, makes the role of Aquileia within the Adriatic distribution system worth considering as well. [DD and SZ] TripoliTanian lamps from The sewage-sysTem excavaTion in The ciTy cenTer The construction of a modern sewage system in the center of Aquileia between 1968 and 1972 had the added value of producing considerable quantities of material, ceramic and non-ceramic. The assemblages were inventoried and stored at the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia and not studied until 2010, when a new project aimed at publication (envisaged by Luisa Bertacchi already in 1993) commenced.5 The limitations imposed on the material by the nature of the sewage-system excavations as such and the location—modern pipelines followed ancient Roman roads within the city)—coupled with scarce excavation documentation of the finds, have hindered attempts at a reconstruction of contexts as well as mapping the finds on the plan of the ancient town [Fig. 1]. Included among the finds were 487 fragments of North African oil lamps, most of which (481 pieces) were attributed to Tunisian workshops, while the remaining six fragments were the product The research project (initially focused on the study of the instrumentum inscriptum) was launched in 2010 by the University of Udine, under the direction of Maurizio Buora and Stefano Magnani, in collaboration with the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia. One of the objectives of the project is the collection and study of all the available documentation for the purpose of reconstructing archaeological contexts wherever possible and locating them on a topographic plan of the ancient city in an effort to obtain data on the different urban sectors in a historical perspective (Bertacchi 1993: 246–247; Gerri and Magnani 2015). Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago of Tripolitanian potters.6 The fragmented condition of most of the finds limited the typological classification. In the case of Cat. 1, the upper part was complete enough to identify it as an Atlante Form XIII [Fig. 2A:Cat. 1] featuring a plain concave discus surrounded by a ridge and sequences of concentric semicircles decorating the wide, flat shoulder. The body is thin-walled, the fabric dense despite a certain granularity, pale brown in color and speckled, both on the surface and in the break, with numerous whitish inclusions of considerable size. Two other examples of Atlante Form XIII come from the Northern Adriatic: one from the modern city of Ajdovščina in Slovenia (known in ancient times by the name of Castra, within Regio X on the road to Emona) (Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 27) and the other now in the National Museum at Zagreb, Croatia (Vikić-Belančić 1972: 61, No. 230 and Table XXIII, No. 12). The decoration of concentric semicircles on the shoulder does not find any published parallels except for a locally imitated specimen found in Egnatia (Fioriello 2003: 84, No. 54). The remaining fragments are to be ascribed generically to Atlante Forms XIII–XV. Geometrical motifs are present on the shoulder of three of the five examples: a hook motif similar to the one adorning an example from the Museum of Sabratha (Joly 1974: Table XLII, 6 7 lychnological sTUDiEs No. 993) [Fig. 2A:Cat. 2], three or four parallel bars alternating with relief circles adorned with a row of pearls around a central boss [Fig. 2A:Cat. 3], and short bars [Fig. 2B:Cat. 4]. Vegetal motifs, probably palm branches, appear on two specimens [Fig. 2B:Cat. 5, Cat. 6]. The well-fired fabric is from slightly grainy to very fine in texture and varies in color from pink and light brown. A generic dating between the second quarter of the 4th and the first quarter of the 6th century AD7 can be suggested. [SZ] TripoliTan lamps from The Domus of TiTus macer An area of the ancient city of Aquileia known as “Fondo Cossar” was excavated between 2009 and 2015 by the University of Padua in agreement with the Superintendence of Friuli Venezia Giulia and in collaboration with the Aquileia Foundation. The project was focused especially on the so-called Domus of Titus Macer, a residential house occupied from the 1st century BC through the beginning of the 6th century AD (on the excavation results recently Bonetto and Ghiotto 2014) [Fig. 1 inset]. A large quantity of clay lamps (373 examples, including intact and fragmentary pieces) were recorded, representing a broad range of types produced from the late Republican period through the 6th century AD, which thus reflect the African oil lamps and their imitations (a total of 575 fragments) were studied by Sabrina Zago for her Master’s thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. Monica Salvadori and Dr. Diana Dobreva and submitted to the University of Padua. The later context is that of Sidi Khrebish (Bailey 1985); the chronological issues regarding this class were addressed in detail in Zago 2016. PAM 28/1 (2019) 221 regional typologies Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia Fig. 2A–B. Roman Tripolitanian lamps from excavations in Aquileia: 1–3 and 4–6 (on the opposite page) – from trenches in the city center (1968–1972); 7–8 – from the so-called Domus of Titus Macer on the former Cossar property (Courtesy of the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia [1–6] and the University of Padua, Project Cossar, Aquileia [1–8] | sphotos S. Zago; drawing S. Zago [1–6]; S. Tinazzo and M. Trivini Bellini [7–8]) 222  lychnological sTUDiEs Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago phasing of the site. Of this number, 81 specimens, that is, 22%, come from late antique contexts [Fig. 3]. A significant part of this represents North African lamps produced in central and northern Tunisia. Interestingly, imitations or local copies of African models that seem to be contemporary are found in the same contexts from the mid 5th century AD as the original African lamps (on the subject, see Dobreva 2017). Factory lamps (Firmalampen), referring formally to products from at least the mid 4th century AD, make for a small percentage of the finds. Finally, there is a set of wheel-made oil lamps (types Iványi XXII or Magrini and Sbarra 1) amounting to 6% of the total assemblage [Fig. 3]. Some 1% of the discovered lamps are glazed products attributable to the Car- lino atelier, typical of contexts dated to the end of the 4th and the 5th century AD on (for typological references, see Magrini and Sbarra 2005: 51–53). A Roman Tripolitanian lamp with a typical wide and flat shoulder set flush with the nozzle is part of this set. A stylized rosette within a circle in relief has been preserved on the shoulder. The fabric is fine, dense, red in color, hard and coarse to the touch, the slip red-orange, glossy and homogeneous (similar to La Lomia 1971: 15, No. 775, Pl. 5 and Joly 1974: No. 980, Pl. XLI) [Fig. 2B:Cat. 7]. A provenance from the Tripolitanian area is not excluded also in the case of another lamp that has been classified as Deneauve VIII.4, Tripolitanian variant (see Bonifay 2004: 313–339, Fig. 175). The latter specimen 0 5 cm  Fig. 2B PAM 28/1 (2019) 223 regional typologies preserves part of the discus, decorated with two palm branches in relief, and part of the shoulder decorated with two rows of closely spaced globules. This type seems to be a variant of the Warzenlampen type, which started to be produced in this form in the 4th century AD. An identical specimen, perhaps from the same mold, dated to the second half of the 3rd–early 4th century AD, was found earlier in Aquileia (Di Filippo Balestrazzi 1988: 347–350, 361, No. 998, Table 151). The variant is also Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia well represented in a mid-4th century AD archaeological context from the Eastern Baths of Leptis Magna (Bonifay et al. 2013: 93–103, Fig. 18, Nos 88–89). As far as the chronology of the said fragment is concerned, unfortunately its discovery in late fill, dated to the third quarter of the 5th century AD, does not aid in precise dating. While the type is generally attributable to the workshops of central Tunisia, we also know a Tripolitanian-made series of the same lamps (Bonifay 2004: 334, Fig. 3. The lamp assemblage from the excavation of the Domus of Titus Macer (former Cossar property): lamp types from late antiquity (n = 82); inset, the assemblage by chronological periods (n=373) (Processing D. Dobreva) 224 Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago Type 13, Figs 187 and 339–341, Type 19, Figs 191, 349, Type 32, Fig. 196). In both cases they are common ware products.8 The clean but coarse, very dense and yellowish fabric, as well as the heavy lychnological sTUDiEs whitish slip of the piece from the Cossar excavation raise many questions about its origin, which only further archaeometric analyses can help to clarify [Fig. 2B:Cat. 8]. [DD] DisTribuTion of roman TripoliTanian oil lamps Recent publications with photographic and drawing documentation have contributed data for a better understanding of the distribution of the Roman Tripolitanian lamps. The research has also highlighted the complexity of the issue and the limited usefulness of the publications [Fig. 4 and Table 1]. The distribution map reveals apparent clusters of finds, located mainly in production areas and their whereabouts (e.g., in nearby Cirenaica). Other regions of the Mediterranean show different concentrations of lamps, whether in topographical or quantitative terms, with Sicily being a notable exception with many finds (about 48 specimens)9 recorded in cities along the southeastern coast. Small quantities of these lamps were discovered in Malta (at least eight) (Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, notes 23, 14), Latium, also eight, from 8 9 10 Rome (Provoost 1970: 22–23, 42–43, Type 2; Barbera and Petriaggi 1993: 332–333, Nos 290–291) and Ostia (Anselmino 1977: 95, No. 46 and Table IX; Barbera and Petriaggi 1993: 331–332, No. 289) and Friuli (at least eight: Aquileia, Bioni Island in the Marano lagoon). Aside from the above, lamp finds at Mediterranean sites are very rare and never exceed three per site (Spain: Alicante [3] and Tarragona [1]; Italy: Olbia [2], Porto Torres [1], Egnatia [2], Herdonia [1], Taranto [1];10 Greece: Corinth [1], and Turkey: Miletus [1]). The Northern Adriatic regions seem to vary significantly in terms of the numbers of lamp finds: beside ample finds attested in the capital of the Venetia et Histria Regio X (Aquileia), there are isolated finds from places like Bioni island (Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 28) and Verona (Di Filippo Balestrazzi 2008: 355–356 and A possible Tripolitanian provenance has also been ascertained for a Deneauve VIII.4 lamp (Bonifay 19A variant) from Castronovo di Sicilia near Palermo (see Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 239, Fig. 61, No. 465, pp. 337, 680). Libertini 1930: 292, No. 1459 and Table CXXIX; Fallico 1967: 407–408; Joly 1974: 44, note 5; Castellana and McConnell 1990; Patanè and Tanasi 2006: Figs 5a and 7, No. 108; Vitale 2012: 43, Nos 33–35; Patti 2013: 93–103, Nos 081–098; Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: sites 28, 34, 47, 50, 82, 84, 92, 94, 109. The preponderance of fragments in this area is very easily explained by “the privileged position of the island on the route Tripolitania–Ostia via Malta” (Bonacasa Carra 1998: 137). The actual origin of the discovery from the territory of Mantua is uncertain (Ferraresi 2000: 339–340, No. 62), while the lamp from the Museum of Trento seems to be an imitation rather than an original from Tripolitaia (Gualandi Genito 1986: 415, No. 232). PAM 28/1 (2019) 225 regional typologies Table XXXII, No. 10). Further east, there are also single finds from Ajdovščina (Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 29), the island of Veliki Brijun (Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 27) and Zagreb city center (Vikić-Belančić 1972: 61, No. 230 and Table XXIII, No. 12), representing types attested in the Northern Adriatic, spanning time between the second quarter of the 4th and the beginning of the 6th century AD.11 The clustering of finds in the vicinity of Aquileia, although not extensive, apparently matches the trade routes used for transporting goods to and from Aquileia, dispatching them to the Venetian and Slovenian hinterland and Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia other places along the Northern Adriatic coast. Verona was easily reached by the Via Postumia, whereas Iulia Emona is just a short distance away by the Via Gemina, passing through the castrum of Ajdovščina. Andautonia (modern village of Šćitarjevo in Croatia) lies just a little further away from this main road, which continued toward Poetovio. Lamps from the islands of Bioni, located halfway along the Northern Adriatic lagoon system, on the road that connected Aquileia with Iulia Concordia, and Veliki Brijun on the Istrian coast, probably reached these coastal centers by cabotage sailing. Indeed, for the latter site, Fig. 4. Distribution of Roman Tripolitanian lamps in the Mediterranean (for sites indicated in the figure, see opposite page, Table 1) (Processing S. Zago) 11 226 The chronological usefulness of these finds is limited as they come from museum collections or from contexts in which they are residual. lychnological sTUDiEs Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago Table 1. Summary distribution of finds of Roman Tripolitanian lamps in the Mediterranean (for location of the sites, see Fig. 5) No. Site Feature 1 Leptis Magna (Libya) 2 Leptis Magna (Libya) Bath 3 Sabratha (Libya) Excavations 1948–1952 4 Sabratha (Libya) Museum Theater 5 Sabratha (Libya) 6 Sirte (Libya) Mausoleum(?) Christian hypogeum 7 Medina Doga (Libya) Hypogeum 8 Bu Njem (Libya) Temple of Jupiter Ammon 9 Germa (Libya) 10 Ghirza Necropolis (Tripolitania, Libya) 11 Nabeul (Tunisia) Fish sauce fabric 12 Henchir Daoui (Tunisia) 13 Skhira (Tunisia) XII XIII/XV XIII 17 Alexandria (Egypt) Museum 18 Malta – 19 Alicante (Spain) – 5 Bailey 1994: 189, Fig. 46 9 101 Joly 1974: 41–43, Pls XXXVIII–XLV XIV 1 XV 31 XIII XIII XV XIII XIV XV XIII ? 2 72 24 62 1 31 1 1 Procaccini 1974–1975: 29 La Lomia 1971 ? XIII XV XIII–XV ? XV ? 1 6 14 ? 2 Hayes 1972: 314, note 6 Hayes 1984: 234–235, Pls 131a, 133a, 134, 135 Bonacasa Carra 1998 Rebuffat 1987: 85 and 89, No. 12 XV Bonifay 2004: 427, type 82, No. 5 and Fig. 240 1 Bonifay et al. 2002–2003: 149, No. 102, Fig. 9 1 Fendri 1961: Pl. XXXVII, 3 ? ? Bonacasa Carra 1998: 137, note 18 XIII Christian basilica 14 Uadi el-Fani, Khom Mausoleum (Tunisia) 15 Carthage (Tunisia) Circus and necropolis 16 Benghazi (Cirenaica) PAM 28/1 (2019) Atlante Quantity References Form XIII 3 Bonifay et al. 2013: 108, Nos 4.115–117 XIII 30 Joly, Garraffo, and Mandruzzato XV 28 1992: 142–164 XIII/XV XV ? XIII A.XIII A.XV ? XIII 1 Rossiter 1988: 548, Pl. 6 1 Bailey 1985: 198, Pl. 16,4, No. 5 56 3 Breccia 1924: Pl. XXVIII, Nos 4–6 2 Hayes 1972: 315, note 1; Pröttel 3 1991: Col. 96, No. 14 3 3 Atlante… 1981: 205 227 regional typologies No. Site Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia Feature 20 Tarragona (Spain) 21 S. Agata la Vetere, (Catania, Sicily) 22 Biscari Museum (Catania, Sicily) 23 Agrigento (Sicily) – Necropolis area – 24 Saraceno district (Agrigento, Sicily) 25 Valle dei Templi (Agrigento, Sicily) 26 Palermo Museum (Sicily) 27 Villagrazia di Carini (Palermo, Sicily) 28 Monte Iato/Ietas (Palermo, Sicily) 29 Piana degli Albanesi, S. Agata district (Palermo, Sicily) 30 Contrada Costa schiavo (Palermo, Sicily) 31 Megara Hyblea (Sicily) 32 Lardia, Sortino (Sicily) 33 S. Croce Camerina, Miro district (Ragusa, Sicily) Villa 34 Modica (Ragusa, Sicily) 35 Petrulli quarter (Ragusa, Sicily) Museum 36 Marsala/Lilibeum (Trapani, Sicily) Urban excavations 228 Necropolis Necropolis – Necropolis – Atlante Quantity References Form ? 1 Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 26 XIII 1 Patanè and Tanasi 2006: Figs 5a, 7, No. 108 XIII 1 Libertini 1930: 292, No. 1459 and Pl. CXXIX XIV 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 608, site 61 XIII/XV 1 Castellana and McConnel 1990 XIII/ XV(?) ? XIII XIII/XV 1 to 5 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 783, site 61 5 Joly 1974: 44, note 5 3 Vitale 2012: 43, Nos 33–35 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 388, 818–819, site 92 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 388 and 819, site 94 Necropolis XV – XV ? Bonacasa Carra 1998: 136 Old excavations – XIII 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 49–53, 369–370 and 760–765, site 28 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 371 Necropolis XIII 2 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 132– 139, 374–375 and especially 776– 777, site 47 XV XIII/XV 2 5 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 375, note 1086 4 Fallico 1967: 407–408 Necropolis ? XIII XV XIII 3 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 384 and 807, site 82 lychnological sTUDiEs Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago No. Site Feature 37 Marettimo Island, Roman houses quarter (Trapani, Sicily) 38 Piazza Armerina (Enna, Sicily) – 39 Scauri (Pantelleria, Sicily) 40 Olbia (Sardinia) 41 Porto Torres (Sardinia) 42 Ostia (Italy) Shipwreck Villa Atlante Quantity References Form XV 1 Malfitana and Bonifay 2016: 213– 219, 385–910, site 28 XIII XV – – XIII/XV XIII XIII–XV XIII XIII/XV – XIII 43 Rome (Italy) – XIII 44 Rome(?)(Italy) – 45 Egnazia (Italy) – 46 Herdonia (Italy) 47 Taranto (Italy) 48 South Italy – – – 49 Mantua(?) (Italy) 50 Trento(?)(Italy) 51 Verona (Italy) – – – XIII XV XV XIII/XV XIII/XV XV XIII XV XV XIII XV 52 Bioni Island (Italy) 53 Ajdovščina (Slovenia) 54 Veliki Brijun (Istria) 55 Zagreb (Croatia) – Castrum XIII–XV XIII Castrum – XIII–XV XIII 56 Corinth (Greece) – XIII/XV 57 Miletus (Greece) – XIII 58 Gheriat (Libya) PAM 28/1 (2019) el-Garbia Fort XIII XIII–XV 3 Patti 2013: 93–103, Nos 081–098 8 7 1 1 2 1 Oliveri 2009: 167, No. 13, Fig. 13 and 166, No. 9, Fig. 9 Pietra 2013: 130, Nos 48–49, Fig. 9 Villedieu 1984: 213, Fig. 351 2 Anselmino 1977: 95, Pl. IX,46; Barbera and Petriaggi 1993: 331– 332, No. 289 4 Provoost 1970: 22–23, type 2; Barbera and Petriaggi 1993: 332– 333, No. 290 1 Barbera and Petriaggi 1993: 333– 1 334, Nos 291–292 1 Fioriello 2012: 100 and 111, Fig. 102 1 1? Delplace 1974: 78–81, No. 422 1 D’Angela 1979: 120–121, Pl. VII 5,1 1 Zaccaria Ruggiu 1980: 120–121 2 and 146, Nos 221–223 1 Ferraresi 2000: 339–340, No. 62 1 Gualandi Genito 1986: 415, No. 232 1 Di Filippo Balestrazzi 2008: 355– 356, Pl. XXXII, No. 10 1 Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 28 1 Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 29 1 Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 27 1 Vikić-Belančić 1972: 61, Pl. XXIII, No. 12 1 Williams 1981: 85, No. 456 and Pl. 20,456 (cited in Pröttel 1991: Col. 96, No. 20) 1 Menzel 1954: 85, No. 556 and Fig. 90,13 1 Mackensen 2010: 408–411 20 229 regional typologies it can be assumed that its position placed it squarely on the Northern Adriatic trade itineraries [Fig. 5]. Taking into consideration, where possible, the character of the sites which have yielded these lamps, it is worth noting that at least two of the six Adriatic sites, (Ajdovščina and Bioni Island) used to be military settlements; indeed, Bioni played a military role in the late antique period (end of 4th–beginning of 5th century AD), although it seems to have been limited to securing commercial traffic from the central part of the Friuli area toward the Venetian coastal centers (Buora 2002: 185; Possenti 2012: 150). Finds of fragments of oil lamps of this type at one of the sites on the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum (fortifications and linear defenses developed in the Iulian Alps from the 3rd century AD) made Pröttel ask himself how these items Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia reached the territory (Pröttel 1991: Col. 98, note 24).12 This led him to suggest that the lamps would have traveled with the North African contingents that were transferred to the Alps and stationed there. The hypothesis is unverifiable to date, if we consider that in late antiquity the armies were characterized by less flexibility than in earlier periods (Possenti 2012; Rocco 2012: 454). The presence of African soldiers in the Upper Adriatic area, in particular in Pannonia, dates back to the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, when soldiers from Mauretania reached the area (Pavan 1989); to date, there is still no data to confirm the presence of African soldiers in these territories in late antiquity. Archaeological evidence corroborates the presence of soldiers of Germanic origin, from the lower Danube, in the 4th and 5th centuries AD (Buora 2008: 158). In this context, the Fig. 5. Distribution of Roman Tripolitanian lamps in the northern Adriatic area (Processing S. Zago) 12 230 For a review of the issue, see recently Vannesse 2007. lychnological sTUDiEs Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago presence of a Tripolitanian lamp there is difficult, if not impossible, to explain. It may have traveled all this way along with other, commonly used goods (wheat, oil) and vessels of African terra sigillata.13 Therefore, it seems that the Tunisian oil lamps and the African terra sigillata might have, in general, been transported along similar routes: across the Adriatic and then inland along the Po and the Danube rivers. Inland destinations could have also been reached by land (Via Postumia and the Via Gemina). Taking into consideration quantitative analyses, the high number of finds in Aquileia is easily related to the role of the city as a hub for redistribution to farther destinations. Aquileia kept this role not only during the 4th, but also in the 5th century AD, when, due to political and administrative changes, trade routes in the upper Adriatic moved south.14 [DD and SZ] conclusions The distribution of Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps, especially in the Northern Adriatic, remains an open question. The lamps themselves were hardly a reason to undertake the hardships of trade exchange, but so far nothing that they could have traveled with and that would have constituted the goods traded along this route has been identified. The only data concern an earlier period when oil in Tripolitanian amphorae arrived sporadically in the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, thus explaining the presence of the common ceramic lamps of type Deneauve VIII.4 found in the former Cossar property, assuming their origin is confirmed. However, later types of amphorae of Tripolitanian origin (e.g., type 13 14 15 Tripolitana III) ceased to be produced and circulated by the 4th century AD when the Tripolitanian terra sigillata lamps (see Atlante Form XIII) started to be manufactured.15 Hence, the lamps must have traveled probably with commodities other than oil. At the end of the 4th and especially in the first half of the 5th century AD, the African coastal area supplied the Adriatic mainly with containers of types Keay 25.2 and Spatheion 1, used for wine and fish sauce sent from Zeugetania and Byzacena (Rousse 2004: 610–612; Degrassi et al. 2010; Ventura and Donat 2010; Bueno, Novello, and Mantovani 2012; Bonetto et al. 2013: 156–161; Konestra 2015: 155–159, 197–198). Large quantities of African goods, fine This hypothesis seems to be much more plausible, especially considering that these two centers were particularly supplied with North African goods, see Tassaux 2004: 30. The vitality of the center in Friuli during the 5th century AD has been confirmed repeatedly by recent pottery discoveries (amphorae and terra sigillata foremost, Braidotti 2011; Trivini Bellini 2014; Dobreva and Riccato 2016) as well as evidence concerning urban planning (Marano 2012). The Tripolitanian oil trade reached its peak in the Severan period before declining in the 4th century AD. Oil seems to have been purchased mainly by the capital municipality to provide for its annual festivities, while private consumption was fairly marginal (Rizzo 2014: 260). PAM 28/1 (2019) 231 regional typologies Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia tableware originating from the area of El Mahrine and Oudhna (African terra sigillata D) included, found in Aquileia, suggest the existence of privileged links with North Africa in this period (Ventura and Zulini 2012–2013; Trivini Bellini 2014). One wonders to which distribution circuit the Northern Adriatic should be assigned. Sicily, where the finds of Tripolitanian oil lamps are particularly plentiful along the southeastern coast, seems to have been a favored destination for furnishings of Tripolitanian origin as well as other ceramics of African provenance, mainly due to its location along the trade routes (Malfitana and Bonifay 2016). This seems also to be attested by some finds of Sicilian amphorae (Mid Roman 1A containers produced in Catania and the Keay 52 amphorae produced in Naxos) in 4th and 5th century AD contexts in Aquileia, which however may be the result of a more complex distribution mechanism that is still poorly understood. Even we are still far away from completely understanding this phenomenon, the new data presented here may be of some help to the reconstruction of the Adriatic distribution system. The results emphasize yet again the importance of Aquileia in the maritime trade routes in the 5th century AD. They also open new perspectives for the study of the commercial links between the city and the North African coast. [DD] caTalog Cat. 1 Excavation context Fig. 2A:1 Inv. No. 69030 Aquileia sewage-system excavations Type Date Atlante Form XIII Second quarter of 4th–beginning of 5th century AD Fabric/slip Granular appearance, but clean and dense with numerous whitish lumps on the surface and voids visible to the naked eye, hard and coarse to the touch, light reddish-brown color; light reddishbrown slip, semi-glossy, homogeneous. Dimensions Description Preserved: Fragment of the upper body with a small part of the body, handle H. 2.3; L. 6.9; W. 8.2 cm and nozzle lost; plain discus, concentric semicircles on the shoulder. Parallels Similar to Joly 1974: Table XLIV, No. 1003; Fioriello 2003: 84, No. 54 16 232 For a summary of the types, see Franco and Capelli 2014a; 2014b. On the presence of these containers in Aquileia, see Dobreva forthcoming. Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago lychnological sTUDiEs Cat. 2 Excavation context Fig. 2A:2 Inv. No. 75544 Aquileia sewage-system excavations Type Date Atlante Form XIII–XV Mid 4th–5th century AD Fabric/slip Granular but clean, hard and coarse to the touch, pinkish orange color; opaque, pinkish-orange slip. Description Dimensions Fragment of shoulder and discus with handle; plain discus, hook Preserved motifs on the shoulder. H. 3.1; L. 7.8; W. 4.7 cm Parallels Similar to Joly 1974: Table XLII, No. 993 Cat. 3 Excavation context Fig. 2A:3 Inv. No. 56475 Aquileia sewage-system excavations Type Date Atlante Form XIII–XV Mid 4th–5th century AD Fabric/slip Fine, clean and dense, hard, coarse to the touch, reddish color; opaque orange-reddish coating Dimensions Description Preserved Fragment of shoulder and handle with a section of the bottom. H. 3.2; L. 4.4; W. 6.7 cm Shoulder decorated in relief with geometric patterns (groups of three to four vertical bars, alternating with circles with small globules around a central boss in a crown motif) Parallels For the circle, La Lomia 1971: Table 5, No. 768; Joly 1974: Table XLI, No. 973; Pröttel 1991: 90, Fig. 1, Nos 2–3 Cat. 4 Excavation context Fig. 2B:4 Inv. No. 137304 Aquileia sewage-system excavations Date Type Atlante Form XIII–XV Mid 4th–5th century AD Fabric/slip Very fine and clean, very dense, smooth to the touch, pinkish color; pink slip, not very glossy. Description Dimensions Shoulder fragment with handle; short vertical bars near the edge Preserved and horizontal ones on the inside shoulder. H. 3.6; L. 2.4; W. 4.8 cm PAM 28/1 (2019) 233 regional typologies Cat. 5 Inv. No. 77750 Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia Excavation context Aquileia sewage-system excavations Fig. 2B:5 Type Date Atlante Form XIII–XV Mid 4th–5th century AD Fabric/slip Granular but clean, hard, coarse to the touch, light reddish-brown color; reddish-brown slip, glossy. Description Dimensions Shoulder fragment; palm branch motif on the shoulder Preserved H. 2.1; L. 3.6; W. 2.15 cm Parallels Joly 1974: Table XXXVIII, No. 923 (Form XIII) Cat. 6 Inv. No. 130474 Excavation context Aquileia sewage-system excavations Fig. 2B:6 Date Type Atlante Form XIII–XV Mid 4th–5th century AD Fabric/slip Fine, clean and dense, hard, coarse to the touch, reddish color; reddish, glossy slip Description Dimensions Shoulder fragment; short relief bars (geometric or plant pattern?) on Preserved the shoulder. H. 1.2; L. 4.1; W. 1.1 cm Cat. 7 Inv. No. 545099 Excavation context Aquileia, former Cossar property excavation, US 14 (surface layer) Date Mid 4th–5th century AD Fig. 2B:7 Excavation context Aquileia, former Cossar property excavation, US 3151 (fill, third quarter of the 5th century AD) Date Second half of 3rd–mid 4th century AD Fig. 2B:8 Type Atlante Form XV Fabric/slip Fine, well purified and dense, hard and coarse to the touch, red color; red-orange, glossy and homogeneous slip. Description Dimensions Fragment of the upper part with a section of the shoulder and Preserved discus; plain discus; rosette within a relief circle on the shoulder. H. 1.5; L. 4.6; W. 4.1 cm Parallels Similar to La Lomia 1971: 15, No. 775, Table 5; Joly 1974: 980, Table XLI Cat. 8 Inv. No. 560570 Type Deneauve VIII. 4, Tripolitana variant Fabric/slip Cleaned but coarse, very solid, yellowish color, heavy whitish slip. Description Fragment of the upper part with a section of the shoulder and discus; palm branch on the discus; two rows of relief globules on the shoulder. Parallels Di Filippo Balestrazzi 1988: 347–350, 361, No. 998, Table 151 234 Dimensions Preserved H. 1.1; L. 4.4; W. 3.0 cm Diana Dobreva and Sabrina Zago Diana Dobreva Università degli Studi di Verona dianasergeeva.dobreva@univr.it Sabrina Zago Università degli Studi di Padova sabrina.zago3@gmail.com lychnological sTUDiEs How to cite this article: Dobreva, D. and Zago, S. (2019). Roman Tripolitanian oil lamps found in Aquileia. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 28/1, 217–240. https://doi. org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7043 References Anselmino, L. (1977). Le lucerne. In A. Carandini and C. Panella (eds), Ostia IV: le terme del nuotatore, scavo dell’ambiente XVI e dell’area XXV (=Studi miscellanei 23) (pp. 86–100). Rome: De Luca Atlante delle forme ceramiche I. Ceramica fine romana nel bacino Mediterraneo (medio e tardo impero). 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