Antonio IBBA,
Tappi fittili da Ibida in Scythia Minor (V-VI sec.): riflessioni su una tipologia poco nota dell’instrumentum inscriptum [Clay plugs from Ibida in Scythia Minor (5th-6th century): reflections on a little-known typology of the instrumentum inscriptum]
Keywords: lids, Byzantium, society, officinae, commerce.
Abstract: Clay plugs from Ibida in Scythia Minor (5th-6th century): reflections on a little-known typology of the instrumentum inscriptum. In Dobrudja have been found among fifty lids and some matrices with Greek inscriptions or Christian symbols. Here we intend to introduce some unpublished pieces from Ibida and, at the same time, to reflect on the production and diffusion of these objects, which are indeed limited to Scythia Minor and Moesia Secunda, as well as on their practical purposes and on the society that these instrumenta used.