Trade

It can certainly be said that trade existed in all eras confirmed in “Stari Vinogradi”, and that it was mainly undertaken in the regions south of the Danube.

The position of “Stari Vinogradi” close to the Danube and on the Tisa river (geographical map), which were the boundaries of the Roman Empire in this territory in the Classical period, allowed intense trade with larger Roman centers such as Sirmium, Singidunum and Viminacium. Since the goods mostly traded were such that leaves no archeological traces, such as agricultural and livestock products, it seems as though there was none in some of the periods. .

Picture 2/14: Trade on the Danube.
Archeologically this activity can first be followed through foreign, Roman pottery that can be found in the Classical settlement. In the 1st century there are barely any sherds of such pottery photo 27, and it is most present in the period from the end of the 2nd to the middle of the 3rd century. These are most frequently bowls and jugs with red coating photo 85, terra sigilata from local workshops photo 82 and sherds of amphorae photo 83. Rarely do we find sherds of pitchers photo 84 and pythos.

During the late Classical period, in the 3rd-4th century, there is still Roman pottery photo 109, 110, 111 but it is percentually less represented with regard to the larger local manufacture than in the previous period. Some of the amphorae photo 103 from this period might originate from the Roman provinces along the Lower Danube.

In the structures from the 6th century most represented is pottery from some of the early Byzantine workshops, first of all pots made on a swift wheel, with thin walls, and a groove for the lid, table 2/1-6

Relatively rare pieces of late Classical fibulae photo 137, 138, also manufactured in some of the Roman towns along the border also testify to trade. A few finds of Pannonian-Noric fibulae photo 48 from the early 1st century tell either of trade with regions quite further to the west, in the territory of the Austria or Slovenia of today, or of the moving of part of the population from these regions to the lower region around the Tisa river. Different decorations, mostly glass pearls photo 123 are products that also came to “Stari Vinogradi” from the Roman territory. Among them there are rare pieces that came here from the far regions around the Pontus, such as a cap decoration photo 144 made at the end of the 4th century.

Money is a very rare find in “Stari Vinogradi”. A few pieces photo 60 belong to the early 1st century and are ascribed to the Scordisci, and a few pieces  photo 140 are of late Classical manufacture.

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