oa Military Communities from East to West. Understanding Local Contexts and Responses at Dura-Europos and Vindolanda

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This paper explores the extended military community of the Roman garrison at Dura-Europos and contextualizes the evidence for this group by comparisons to military sites along the north-western frontier, and Vindolanda in particular. The small finds from the houses of the military quarter at Dura are discussed using a particular approach from the north-western Roman Empire that considers the presence of traditional household implements and ceramics as an indication of the presence of soldiers’ families in extended military communities. The paper ends by considering how lessons from the study of the extended military communities at sites like Dura-Europos and Vindolanda with robust material culture assemblages can be applied to other sites along the Roman frontier with smaller material culture signatures.