%0 Conference Proceedings %A Antoniadis, Vyron%A %A Pliakou, Georgia %E %E Rembart, Laura%E %E Waldner, AliceEditors %D 2022 %T The Archaeology of “Dead Cities”: Ceramic Evidence from Late Hellenistic and Roman Epirus %B Manufacturers and Markets. The Contribution of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small %@ 978-3-85161-276-9 %I Phoibos Verlag %P 527–543 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10442/18297 %X In 167 B. C., the Romans, according to Polybius, destroyed 70 cities in Epirus. Strabo describes Epirus at the end of the first century B. C. as a deserted region with cities in ruins. However, extended surveys and archaeological excavations over the last 30 years suggest that many Epirote settlements survived the major setbacks of 167 and 29 B. C. At the same time, it has been difficult to interpret the political and economic function of the old Epirote cities that were or were not destroyed under the Roman rule. The present paper attempts to interpret the function of these settlements from 167 B. C. to 29 B. C. by providing a synthesis of the ceramic evidence from both older and more recent excavations. This contextual approach on pottery finds recovered from the major Epirote cities, such as Gitana and Cassope, will shed light to the function of the local economy and of the product exchange. The authors hope that this study will aid to a better understanding of these imposing walled settlements that still dominate the Epirote landscape. %> Αποθετήριο Ήλιος / ΕΙΕ