From One Coast to Another: early medieval ceramics in the southern Adriatic region

Il ruolo delle città portuali nelle dinamiche del commercio tra Adriatico e Ionio nell’alto Medioevo (V-IX sec.)

“…Questo commercio era attivo su entrambe le coste adriatiche, dall'Epiro e dall'Illiria alla Dalmazia o dall'Apulia verso il nord 45 . Fino alla fine dell'VIII secolo fu in gran parte gestito da mercanti orientali e rimasero sotto il controllo dell'amministrazione bizantina molte città istriane, incluse Trieste, Koper, Novigrad, Rovinj, Pula e Labin, oltre al territorio di Motovun e Buzet 46 .…”

A ‘god-guarded’ city? The ‘new’ medieval town of Butrint

“…29 Substantial numbers of Otranto 1 amphorae sherds occur in the riverside Triconch Palace excavations. 30 Mussel processing remains by the water gate of the Merchant's House area is the other significant feature of this area in the ninth to tenth centuries. Given the absence of ninth-to tenth-century structures found in these excavations, it is tempting to interpret the compacted mussels as evidence of seasonal re-use of the channel-side for fish-processing and limited commercial activity of a periodic nature.…”

The aristocratic oikos on the Vrina Plain, Butrint c. AD 830–1200

“…26 In the Western Defences, the material culture comprised a mixture of East Mediterranean and Apulian imports besides local wares and a variety of glassware. 27 Bulk goods in the form of large numbers of amphorae appeared to be absent. Instead, the finds resembled the mixed cargoes of several occasional ships.…”