21. Plain and Coarse Wares

2016 ◽  
pp. 307-338
Author(s):  
Anna Cavallo
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Wares

Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Riley
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
Selection Of

The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There is a representative selection of coarse wares, including amphoras, as yet unpublished. These are mainly in fragmentary condition but their typological range conforms with that from the well stratified and dated excavations at Berenice-Benghazi (Riley, in press).Publication of the more complete of these amphoras seems justified as there is a relative scarcity of published information on Roman amphoras from the eastern Mediterranean, at a time when many eastern types are being recognised in western Mediterranean excavated contexts (Panella, 1974; Hayes, 1976a; Riley, 1981). In addition, a brief consideration of the other amphoras helps to illustrate the diversity of trade in liquid agricultural produce within the eastern Mediterranean region. No locally made amphoras were noted on the Apollonia stone: all were imported into Cyrenaica.The Hellenistic period is represented by Rhodian (Inv. Nos. 321, 322 and 1582) and Knidian (Inv. Nos. 141 and 723) amphora fragments. There are several sherds of early Imperial amphoras, and attention has been drawn to these by Panella (1974). These include a first to second century A.D. Aegean type (ibid., 477, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Box 2036, from Ras el Hilal); a Spanish garum amphora of the same period (ibid., 513, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Inv. No. 256); several Tripolitanian amphoras of the first and second centuries A.D. (ibid., 562, Ostia Form LXIV; Apollonia Inv. Nos. 253, 254, 315 and 317); and a common Aegean amphora of the third and fourth centuries A.D. (ibid., 597, Ostia Form VI).

Some Bucchero Vases from Ardea

1949 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
R. M. Cook ◽  
C. B. R. Butchart
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Observation ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
The Right

The objects described below were found near Ardea in Latium during the digging of a gun-position in June 1944. The site was in a valley bottom about one mile SSE of the modern town, and the area dug was an L-shaped trench two feet wide and with arms four feet and six feet long. Unfortunately military duties prevented continuous observation, but the following points are clear. Work began on the shorter arm of the trench; and there were found sherds of bucchero and of coarse wares (nos. 10, 11, 23–26, 28, 29), and a ‘red pot’ which was removed and lost. Three days later, digging was resumed and yielded first a bucchero cup (no. 15) and oinochoe (no. 9), then sherds of coarse brownish ware (no. 27), and farther on at a depth of two and a half feet two bucchero oinochoai (nos. 7, 8). Next day three bucchero amphoriskoi (nos. 12–14) were found still farther on in the same section of trench. An offset trench was then started to the right, with a depth of two and a half to three feet. In this offset were found six alabastra (nos. 1–6), all lying together, and close to them two bucchero cups (nos. 16, 17); a little beyond were two bucchero kantharoi (nos. 21, 22); nothing else had been found when orders to advance put an end to the work. Apart from the pottery no objects were observed, nor any traces of structures or of discoloration in the soil.

scholarly journals A pilot study on coarse ware ceramic fabrics from the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Greece)

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-139
Author(s):  
G.J.M. van Oortmerssen ◽  
C.W. Wiersma
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Mineral Inclusions ◽  
Fabric Analysis ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Stereo Microscope ◽  
The Common ◽  
Coarse Wares

In this article, we present the results of our pilot study on coarse ware ceramic fabrics from the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece). The aim of this pilot was to explore the potential of optical fabric analysis on coarse wares on the basis of (mineral) inclusions detectable by eye or under modest magnification. We aimed to answer the following question: can we discern Bronze Age coarse wares from Byzantine/Early Modern coarse wares by means of this technique? We studied 177 ceramic fragments by eye and by means of a stereo microscope. This resulted in the description of 51 different provisional fabrics. Only a few of these fabrics could be assigned to a specific time period with certainty, based on a consistent dating of the sherds by the ceramic specialists, who looked at shape, decoration and fabric. Most of the fabrics seem to consist of sherds stemming from various time periods. A comparison between our provisional fabric groups and those published by other researchers in Laconia shows that possible connections or matches between fabrics made by us should be considered either as tentative or as unreliable beyond the level of argued assumptions. To arrive at more reliable ceramic fabric connections, or the identification of similar fabrics, it will be necessary to publish not only textual descriptions and images of thin sections—as seems to be the common approach—but also series of high-resolution pictures of sherds and their fresh sections, as has been done in this article, together with more detailed descriptions of these sherds.

Petrological Examination of Coarse-ware Stirrup-jars from Mycenae

1981 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 335-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Riley
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Elemental Analysis ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Geological Evidence ◽  
Spectrometry Analysis ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coarse Wares

Elemental analysis of coarse-ware stirrup-jars from Thebes provided the first objective evidence for the movement of coarse wares in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. While the evidence of the optical emission spectrometry analysis indicates that stirrup-jars occur in several fabrics, the assignation of these fabrics to specific sources has been the subject of some debate, summarized and discussed in the light of fresh evidence by Catling and Jones but continued by McArthur.It was to cast more light on the general questions that a large sample of stirrup-jars from Mycenae was analysed by petrological analysis. This method of analysis involves the identification of the rocks and minerals within the clay and relates them to geological sources most compatible with the archaeological evidence. Recent discussions of the method include Courtois, Peacock, and de Paepe.With considerable help and collaboration from Dr. E. French and Lord William Taylour, and permission from the Greek Department of Antiquities, 37 samples were taken from stirrup jars from the House of the Wine Merchants (= HWM; dated LH IIIA/B), 25 from the House of the Oil Merchants (= HOM; dated to the end of LH IIIB1), and ten samples from stoppers found in the stirrup jars in the House of the Oil Merchants. The aim was to define the fabrics petrologically in order to relate these to the typology proposed by Haskell (this volume), and to suggest possible origins for them based on geological evidence.

The Commoner Late Roman Coarse Wares of the East Midlands

1968 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Todd
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Pottery Industry ◽  
North East ◽  
Geographical Spread ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
Late Roman

It is by this time axiomatic that regional studies of pottery types, wares, and fabrics can greatly expand our knowledge of the pottery industry in Roman Britain. Some of the most penetrating studies which have contributed to the subject of Romano-British coarse pottery in recent years have concerned themselves with the peculiar types and wares of individual regions, or with the geographical spread of distinctive products as mirrored in the pattern of their distribution. This outline study of two large and varied classes of common coarse wares, current in the east Midlands towards the end of the Roman period, is designed primarily to provide (a) a brief discussion of a very distinctive burnished grey ware, and (b) to record some results of further work on the remarkable north-east Midland jar types, best known in the forms of Derbyshire and Dales Ware. With the exception of these two, the major late Roman wares of the area have not been systematically studied. Taken with the recent studies on those two wares, it is intended that these notes will form a convenient introduction to the late Roman pottery industry in this region.

scholarly journals A Necrópole Romana do Eirô, Duas Igrejas (Penafiel): intervenção arqueológica de 2016

2020 ◽  
pp. 1439-1455
Author(s):  
Laura Sousa ◽  
Teresa Soeiro
Keyword(s):  
New Interpretation ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
The Church

The (re)excavation, in 2016, by Penafiel’s Municipal Museum, of one of the known parish’s Roman necropolis at Eirô hamlet, was facilitated by the construction of the Duas Igrejas Parish Centre. In 1941, Abílio Miranda published the first news referring the casual finding of archeological burials in a ground between the church and the graveyard. Roman coarse wares and an ornamented ring were found there. These materials entered the Museum unrecorded. In this intervention the remaining grave structures of that occurrence were uncovered. Six more preserved inhumation tombs were partially or fully excavated that contained pottery, hobnails with fabric remains, and coins. It allowed for a new interpretation of the site and these burials datation, attributed to the 4th century A.D.

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