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While circulation and consumption of foreign, Hellenistic, fine wares in the area of the Kvarner gulf (NE Adriatic, Croatia) during the regional late Iron age has been attested by mostly stray and necropolises finds at both insular and coastal sites, allowing its dating from the 4th c. BCE, evidence from stratigraphic settlement contexts are rare, especially for the earliest periods of its circulation. Thanks to the interdisciplinary research carried out by a Polish-Croatian team on the island of Rab (Kvarner gulf, NE Adriatic, Croatia), a late Iron Age hillfort with multiple settlement units and other accompanying features was identified by geophysical prospection at Kaštelina hillfort (Stolac cape, Lopar), while a segment of one such unit is being excavated. Previously collected surface finds and aforementioned recent excavations, among others, allowed to determine a number of wares and shapes of imported fine pottery, but also to place them in context with, most probably local coarse wares and other finds evidencing everyday activities at the site. The context, dated by 14C to the 4th c. BCE, is thus encompassing also the earliest period of circulation of Hellenistic wares in the region, allowing us to study, though still preliminarily, the modes of appropriation of foreign table ware within a local community of the Kvarner area. |
