An Early Byzantine Ceramic Workshop on the Site of Scamnum Tribunorum in Novae (Moesia Secunda)
An Early Byzantine Ceramic Workshop on the Site of Scamnum Tribunorum in Novae (Moesia Secunda)

Summary/Abstract: The Roman legionary fortress and Late Antique town of Novae was inhabited between the mid–1st c. and the early 7th c. AD. During the late 3rd c. and the first half of the 4th c. AD. the settlement was gradually transformed from a strictly military site with an adjacent civilian settlement to a town with military garrison. At the same time its fortified area was enlarged to the east, spreading over parts of the earlier canabae, while its internal structure was subjected to extensive alterations. The area of the scamnum tribunorum in Novae is one of the most thoroughly studied sectors of the archaeological site. The intensive research over recent decades has produced evidence for its development from the earliest earth and timber construction period to the end of Late Antiquity. The present contribution explores an Early Byzantine kiln site, unpublished until now in detail, discovered in the north-western part of this sector during the 2006 and 2007 archaeological seasons.

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