Rimski poznolatenski uvoz na Slovaškem

Abstract

This article offers concise data about southern, especially Italic and Norican, imports to the present-day Slovakian territory in the La Tene period. Foreign products were very rare in the early and middle La Tene periods. Oppida on the Danube, as well as the central settlements of the Puchov Culture in the north Carpathian region, imported various goods in the late La Tene period. The main material from the LT D1 and LT D2 stages is jewellery and fragments of bronze vessels from drinking services. The remarkable amount of Italic amphorae and sigillata fragments at Devi'n can be related to a direct Roman presence at this strategically important site at the confluence of the Morava and Danube Rivers. Many Italic products were also imitated in the oppida. The amount of imports from Noricum is also important, reaching a culmination at the beginning of the Roman period in the Dacian environment of eastern Slovakia and in the region of the Puchov Culture.