Drikkeutstyr med romersk opphav. Identitet og sosial interaksjon i eldre jernalder

Sammendrag

In this article I have discussed three source categories: Roman-made glass with repairs and gilded fittings, ceramics that imitate glass and window sills (ceramics with shards of glass inserted into the vessel body). The selected subject categories have potential for new understanding, which has hitherto been little utilized. The source categories are good examples of how foreign objects (from the Roman Empire) meet and integrate into a local system (the Germanic society of present Norway). The term Romanization was previously interpreted as an acculturation and acquisition of Roman identity, and it was discussed whether Germanic peoples took up Roman customs and used the objects as they were used at the place of origin. Today, research has shifted towards actions that are culturally and socially conditioned, created by interaction in a tightly intertwined network of excited societal structures and the behavioral patterns of groups or individuals. It is thus the meeting point between Roman and German culture that is the articles focus and the concepts of interaction, identity, colonization and hybridity are assigned to the discussion of how material culture from distant areas are adopted and melts together with local material culture.