Contents
preface
materialAgency
1.2 preliminary thoughts on terra sigillata and quarks
standardisationAndHistoricalNarratives
meaning
retrospection
1.3 writing non-retrospective histories
historicalexplanation
practice
2.1 a survival guide to terra sigillata (and to this book)
ItalianTS
TStechnology
2.2.1 a standard definition of terra sigillata
technologyScientificStudyOf
practicesOfStudy
ontology
2.3.1 sigillata as an aesthetic judgement (late 18th-19th centuries)
Dragendorff
2.3.3 sigillata as a dating tool (20th century)
2.3.4 sigillata as the product of workshops (mid 20th century)
2.3.5 sigillata has not always been the same thing!
2.4 whither sigillata?
3.1 prequel: black-gloss wares and pre-sigillata
preSigillata
blackGloss
LezouxSite
3.3.1 situating lezoux
3.3.2 ceramic production predating the roman period
typologyModeA
distributionModeA
3.3.6 an anchored knowledge system
3.4.1 differences in practice
LezouxWorkshops
claysLezouxTS
experimentation
workshopsLocation
3.4.3 standardisation and competition
LesMartres
3.4.5 creation and consequences of a ‘category’
3.5 no more ready-made types
commodity
4.2.1 state of research
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4.2.2 negotiating definitions and roles
4.2.3 prescribing parameters
uncertainty
4.2.4 distributing agency
4.2.5 a patchwork of practices
productionOrganisation
4.3.1 intermezzo: sigillata production organisation
warehouse
stampsPortlaNautique
shippingModel
stampsCulip
stampsColchester
PompeiiCrate
stampsPompeii
PompeiiHouses
4.3.6 redefinition and economic narratives
historyMaker
4.4 a category’s trajectory of exchange
5. The question of stability: sigillata and ‘Rhenish’ wares between Lezoux and Trier (2nd-3rd centuries AD)
5.1.1 production of fine wares at lezoux, mid 2nd century
5.1.2 technological choices
5.1.3 boundaries and ‘othering’
5.2.1 situating trier
TrierWorkshops
5.2.3 early trier sigillata: on its own terms
5.2.4 transposition of a ‘category’ and its ‘other’
5.2.5 third century sigillata: a ‘category’ dissolved
standardisationOfRW
mottoes
Lyon
5.2.9 relations and roots
5.3 thing-thing relations and historical change
6.1.1 (re)producing a category
comparability
ColchesterCC
NeneValleyCC
competition
6.2.1 an essex case study
6.2.2 ‘rhenish’ wares: creating ties
consumptionRW
rootedConsumption
consumptionTS
RomanizationDebate
power
7. Things in history/things as history
trajectory
Appendix 1. Stamp assemblages
references
Index