Jeroen Poblome

Scherben bringen Glück. HEROM’S Editorial Statement

HEROM’s editorial statement presents the rationale of genesis of this new Journal on Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture. HEROM is an annual online journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed within the spheres of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman world. The journal publishes papers in the full range of the scholarly field and in all relevant academic disciplines within the arts, humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences. HEROM creates a bridge between material culture specialists and the wider scientific community, with an interest in how humans interacted with and regarded artefacts from the late 4th century BC to the 7th century AD. HEROM contains Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content (GPRC), coordinated by a strong, global scientific committee, and implements up-to-date online publication strategies. The journal is open to international research submitted by individual scholars as well as by interdisciplinary teams, and especially wishes to promote work by junior researchers and new and innovative projects. Challenging research themes can be explored in dedicated issues, and theoretical approaches are welcomed. Book reviews and review articles further screen the pulse of the field.

Mapping Regional Ceramic Fabrics in Sagalassos (SW-Turkey), Dating from 500 BC–700 AD

Since the start of the excavations at Sagalassos in 1990, interdisciplinary research has been carried out with the purpose of reconstructing the economic history of the site. One of the most important finds was the discovery that Sagalassos was an important regional centre for pottery manufacture from at least the late Hellenistic period into early Byzantine times (Poblome 1999; Degeest 2000). In order to understand regional ceramic production and identify the clay raw materials used, an integrated approach of typological, petrographic and geochemical methods is used in the present study.