BMCR 2025.02.05

LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes

, , , , LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery, 19. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 974. ISBN 9781803271484.

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This document contains the 952-page proceedings of the sixth “Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares, and Amphorae in the Mediterranean” conference, held in Agrigento, Italy, from May 24 to 28, 2017. This conference is part of a longstanding tradition of international congresses aimed at shedding new light on common wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. The intense scientific interest in the study of ceramics from this period is also evident through the congresses of other organizations that specialize in wider chronological periods, such as the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores (RCRF) or the Association Internationale pour l’Étude de la Céramique Médiévale et Moderne en Mediterranée (AIECM3).

The publication under review is a two-volume set of considerable editorial quality, serving as the nineteenth volume in the “Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery” series. It includes a table of contents, abbreviations of the proceedings of the five previous congresses—four of which are volumes 1340, 1662, 2185 and 2616 in the BAR International Series, while the fifth comprises the 42nd and 43rd volumes of the Études Alexandrines series—and an editors’ preface in both Italian and English. These two volumes include 95 articles written in English (50), Italian (39), French (4), and Spanish (2).

Due to space constraints, it is not possible to discuss or even mention all the contributions individually or cover every aspect and issue of each one. Therefore, I have attempted to regroup them thematically where possible, highlighting only certain aspects. Before doing so, I will present the structure of the volume and comment on some geographical issues. Salvatore Cosentino sets the stage with a general introduction to the ports through which the vessels moved, discussing the types of ports, their legal and administrative contexts, and their facilities up until the 8th c. He also examines the role of stamps in understanding state control and the types of officials responsible for overseeing ports and the circulation of goods. Bookending the proceedings is a conclusion by Elisa Chiara Portale that offers an overview of the issues and methodologies proposed by the authors.

The remaining 93 contributions are grouped unevenly in terms of length into five thematic sections with “Sea and Land Routes”, in keeping with the title, leading the way. A second section addresses workshops and ceramic production centers in the Mediterranean, while the remaining three sections are organized by geographical regions: western Mediterranean, eastern Mediterranean, and Sicily and Mediterranean islands. Thus, while the first two sections focus on specific aspects of ceramics—trade and distribution for the first and workshop production in the second—the last three are organized geographically. This inconsistency results in overlap, as many contributions in the geographically organized sections could also fit within the first two thematic sections, especially the first, and vice versa, and create a somewhat fragmented impression of the structure of the proceedings.

As in previous LRCW conferences, studies focusing on the region where the conference was held—Sicily in this case—are prominently highlighted with 20 contributions. This raises questions about why these Sicilian studies are grouped together with a small number of unrelated contributions concerning other islands: four from the western Mediterranean (Sardinia and the Balearics) and three from the eastern Mediterranean (Boğsak, Crete, Skyros). A more coherent structure might have involved a separate section dedicated to Sicilian ceramic production and its role in the Mediterranean trade networks.

As for the distribution of studies based on geographical location, 29 focus on ceramic assemblages from Italy, which is represented by the largest number of contributions (49 including Sicily). The remaining studies examine materials recovered from 17 other countries, distributed as follows: Greece (8), Turkey (8), Spain (7), Egypt (4), France (2), Albania (1), Bulgaria (1), Israel (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Romania and Bulgaria (1), Slovenia (1), Spain and Tunisia (1), Syria, Palestine, and Iraq (1), Tunisia (1), Tunisia and Libya (1), and Ukraine (1). These studies present ceramic assemblages from one or more sites, either as preliminary reports or by addressing interpretative or typochronological issues.

Additionally, three contributions, presented in different sections, examine specific categories of ceramics or particular aspects of ceramics within a broader geographical context. More specifically, Mills provides a brief, updated overview of the definition, production centers, and social aspects of ceramic building material production, as well as its distribution across the Mediterranean. Sazanov reconsiders the typochronological development of LRA1, arguing that this class reflects not one but seven types that evolved concurrently, with a particular focus on the LRA1A type. And, Menchelli examines trade networks and routes in the western Mediterranean, primarily through amphorae but also considering other ceramic categories.

Each presentation includes an abstract, keywords, and bibliography, making it easier for the reader to navigate through this bewildering quantity of contributions. Additionally, the inclusion of color images and ceramic profiles improves the visualization of each assemblage. However, some contributions still require better illustration, such as Bonanno’s presentation of the ceramica comune acroma from Sicily. The three images used to represent a vast and typologically unclassified repertoire of forms make it challenging to fully grasp this original study.

As mentioned above, due to space limitations some of the contributions have been grouped to highlight specific issues arising from the study of ceramics. First, the discussion of port control in the introductory contribution is complemented by two additional studies concerning the state’s involvement in the circulation of products, particularly within the annona system. Didioumi and Sdrolia’s contribution explores a potential control point of the annona, the fortress of Velika, while Opaiţ’s presentation provides new information about the olive oil supply to the lower Danube.

As mentioned earlier, Menchelli provides a comprehensive overview of the circulation of ceramic products in the western Mediterranean. One of her key observations is the predominance of African productions until the early 5th century and their continued presence despite a decline in circulation during the first half of the century. This observation also applies to many other cities, as highlighted by other contributions of the volume, such as Naples (Carsana et al.), Aquileia (Ventura), and Ventimiglia (Gadolfi et al.). Furthermore, the results of the CASR Project, conducted by Capelli and Bonifay, offer detailed insights into the circulation of various African productions across different regions of Sicily.

The imports of African cooking wares constitute an illustrative example of this decline. As shown by Madruzzato and Seifert’s contribution on the “Zona Mura” in Marsala and Schwartz’s work on Curiae Veteres and Horti Lamiani, their circulation in Italy ceases in the first half of the 5th century, but they are quickly replaced by local imitations, indicating the strong influence of the original products. Additionally, Menchelli attributes the decline in African imports to a lack of demand from Mediterranean cities, rather than the decay of production and exportation centers. This interpretation is further supported by Nacef’s study of an amphora workshop in the Dkhila region, Tunisian Sahel, dated to the 6th-7th centuries, which suggests a renewal of African production.

African imports at western Mediterranean sites were further supplemented, especially from the 5th c. onward, by Iberian and Italian amphorae, with varying percentages across regions. Moreover, local and regional productions of common wares, as well as amphorae, complemented these imports. This partial replacement of African imports by Iberian and Italian amphorae and by locally or regionally made common wares is observed in both coastal sites (Madruzzato and Seifert’s, and Giglio et al.‘s contribution on ceramic assemblages from Marsala, Falzone’s study on the ceramic assemblage from the necropolis of Agrigento, Quaresma’s study of ceramic assemblages from Arles) and in hinterland sites (Sfameni et al.’s analysis of the ceramic assemblage from the Roman villa of Cotanello, Rieti). Indeed, both imported and local or regional products were distributed to the hinterland via land and river routes, as shown by studies on ceramic circulation in the Po Valley (Corti) and Ombrone Valley (Bertoldi et al.), on the diffusion of Lusitanian foodstuffs at Arles (Quaresma), on Campanian sites (Castaldo et al.), and ceramic exchanges between Salapia and rural Apulia (Totten et al.).

Among the regional or local productions are the Pantellerian Ware, which circulated more broadly throughout the western Mediterranean,[1] the ceramica liguro-provenzale studied by Gambaro and Pergola et al. in this volume, and the common wares from Tróia, Portugal, studied by Araújo dos Santos. Other local productions have been recently confirmed by the discovery of kilns, such as the amphora workshop from Carminiello ai Manesi, Naples (presented by Constantino) and the workshop producing amphorae, coarse wares, and tiles from the Sant’Anna district in Agrigento (by Rizzo et al.).

Eastern Mediterranean products also circulated with fluctuations in the western Mediterranean, as indicated mostly by the presence of amphorae in Rome and Naples (as shown by Menchelli) and in Sicily (as highlighted in Moncada’s study and mentioned in Falzone’s presentation). Their presence in Olbia, Sardinia (presented by Nervi) underscores the island’s role as a “point of interconnectivity”, a view supported by Menchelli regarding the trade routes in the western Mediterranean.

Even though trade routes and commercial networks in the eastern Mediterranean are less well-represented in this publication, the same pattern of international LRA productions complemented by local or regional, usually common ware productions—similar to what is seen in the western Mediterranean—can still be observed. An example of this is the Epirote products found in Kryoneri located in the Aitolia region (Chamilaki) and in Butrint (Piazzini), with the latter predominantly receiving eastern imports, in contrast to other cities of the Adriatic. Furthermore, Cretan amphorae show a broader diffusion, reaching as far as the Bosporus (Smokotina).

Situated between the two spheres of influence, Egypt had its own extensive local production, supplemented by African imports until the mid-5th c., as demonstrated by Le Bomin et al. in their presentation of ceramic assemblages from Taposiris Magna and Kom Abu Bilu, on the west side of the Nile. However, imports from Asia Minor and the Levant maintained a strong presence throughout Late Antiquity, particularly between the mid-5th and mid-7th c., as illustrated by Dixneuf’s presentation of a late 4th- to early 5th-c. ceramic assemblage from Pelusium, on the east side of the Nile, and further supported by Le Bomin et al.‘s findings.

Let us now turn to the period examined in the LRCW6 proceedings. Late Antiquity is traditionally considered to span the period from the 4th to the 7th c. AD. However, there is a noticeable trend in recent research toward extending this chronological range into the 8th or even 9th c. Consequently, more and more publications aim to shed new light on the 7th and 8th c. The LRCW6 conference contributes to this evolving perspective by examining the decline of Late Roman commerce throughout the 7th and 8th c. Studies such as Martorell and Solé’s presentation of Tarragona’s pottery and trade, along with contributions by Portale and Menchelli—including Menchelli’s work on Luni—highlight the gradual replacement of long-distance commerce by complex, regionalized systems. Within this framework, the Byzantine Globular Amphora, discussed in Poulou’s contribution, represents the last vestige of the long-distance Late Roman commerce in the Mediterranean. This type of amphora, manufactured at various sites across the eastern Mediterranean, north Africa, the Adriatic, and the Tyrrhenian Sea, embodies a koine that marked the end of cylindrical shapes[2].

Other productions or assemblages dated to Late Antiquity and extending into the 8th or 9th c. are presented by Pergola et al., Menchelli, Wohmann et al. (survey ceramics from Boğsak Island), and Sazanov (deposit assemblage from Chersonesos, Crimea). It is also important to note that this perspective was more thoroughly explored in the seventh international conference of the LRCW, the proceedings of which have not yet been published. This conference was held in València, Riba-Roja de Túria, and Alicante, Spain, in 2019, with its main focus on the end of Late Roman pottery and its long distance trade routes.

Another important topic highlighted by several contributions at the LRCW6 Conference, which could be the main focus of a future LRCW congress, is the function of ceramics. Gerousi’s presentation on Christian lamps used in a previously pagan cave, Le Bomin and Marchand’s study of sãqia pots from Taposiris Magna, and Pegurri and Cesaro’s research on chamber pots all offer new, valuable, and often overlooked perspectives on the use of ceramics in religious rituals, water supply systems, and the fulfillment of everyday needs. Le Bomin and Marchand’s study, based on morphology and contextual analysis, sheds light on a rare yet documented category of ceramic use in Egypt: the sãqia pots or qawadis, which were fastened to water-lifting devices for irrigation or baths. In contrast, Pegurri and Cesaro’s research demonstrates the value of archaeometric analysis in revisiting chamber pots that had previously been misidentified as food containers. Furthermore, Inserra et al.’s contribution, which applies organic residue analysis to the study of common wares from rural sites in northeastern Spain, provides additional insights into the contents of vessels used for food preparation and cooking. These latter two studies underscore the well-established importance of “hard sciences” in accurately characterizing the functions of ceramic vessels.

Furthermore, the study of function is often applied to the analysis of cooking and common wares, providing valuable insights into material culture and dietary habits, as illustrated by Diosono and Volpi’s presentation on cooking wares from Villa San Silvestro, as well as Opaiţ and Grigoraş’s presentation on cooking wares from Pompeiopolis. In the latter presentation, a number of vessels that, in terms of morphology and fabric, resemble cooking pots and casseroles are described as “utilitarian cooking pots (or jars)” and “utilitarian casseroles” due to their lack of soot and the presence of decoration. However, the interpretation of their use in ovens or for food preparation remains incomplete.

Extending the discussion of function, two other aspects of the life cycle[3] of ceramics can be observed among the contributions to this publication. The first is the multifunctionality of vessels, as suggested by Diosono and Volpi (cooking pots/storage jars), by Modrijan’s contribution on open coarse vessels from Caput Adriae (cooking/table wares), and by Türker’s study of stands from Üstünlü harbour. These stands could have been used during cooking, for supporting pots during drying, or for separating them inside the kiln. The second aspect is reuse, as seen in amphorae repurposed as tombs in Ventimiglia or as part of the drainage system in Aquileia.

Last but not least, several other interesting new studies include Ergürer and Akkaş’s overview of late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares, and amphorae from Parion; Bes and Karambinis’s study of survey ceramics from the island of Skyros; Grigoropoulos’s contribution on late 3rd- to late 4th-6th c. common wares from Kalapodi; Fiolitaki’s analysis of a ceramic assemblage from the layers of a glass workshop in Argyroupolis; Giuliodori’s study of late 3rd- to mid-5th c. Gortynian production of ceramica a globetti; and Ratzlaff’s presentation on the regional commerce of Levantine amphorae from the Southern Anchorage of Caesarea harbour.

The LRCW6 proceedings exhibit some structural weaknesses, stemming from the broad geographical scope they cover and the uneven criteria used to distinguish the thematic sections. Nevertheless, each contribution is well-supported with essential tools—an abstract, keywords, and a bibliography—making it easier for readers to navigate and comprehend the material. The LRCW6 proceedings make a significant and substantial contribution to the study of pottery manufacture and circulation in the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and beyond. As such, it remains an invaluable resource for pottery specialists.

 

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Authors and Titles

VOLUME 1

Salvatore Cosentino, “Goods on the move across the Late Antique Mediterranean: some remarks on shipping, the management of ports and trading places”, 1

 

  1. Sea and land routes

Phil Mills, “The economics of ceramic building material in the late Roman Mediterranean”

José Carlos Quaresma, “Trade in Lusitanian food-stuffs at Arles from the 1st to 5th centuries AD”

Francesc Rodríguez Martorell and Josep Maria Macias Solé, “Tarracona: Pottery and trade in the 7th and 8th centuries”

Carla Corti, “Importazioni e circolazione lungo il corso del Po tra IV e VII secolo: un aggiornamento”

Philippe Pergola, Alessandro Garrisi and Alessandro Bona, “Crocevia di uomini e merci: il contributo dello studio dei materiali emersi dallo scavo della basilica paleocristiana di Capo Don a Riva Ligure (IM)”

Stefano Bertoldi, Gabriele Castiglia and Angelo Castorao Barba, “Sea, rivers and roads: the Mediterranean connectivity of the Ombrone Valley and the role of secondary settlements in Late Antique Tuscany (Central Italy)”

Vittoria Carsana, Francesca Del Vecchio, Michel Bonifay and Claudio Capelli, “Osservazioni archeologiche ed archeometriche preliminari sui grandi trend dei prodotti africani nel porto di Neapolis/Napoli”

Vittoria Carsana and Franca del Vecchio, “Contesti ceramici da un edificio di VI-VII secolo d.C. nell’area portuale di Neapolis

Vincenzo Castaldo, Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone and Ben Russell, “Sea or land? Trade from the coast to the fringes of Campania”

Darian Marie Totten, Carlo De Mitri and Sara Loprieno, “The Late Antique town of Salapia: midden data as an indicator of exchange and daily life”

Rossella Giglio, Filippo Pisciotta and Pierfrancesco Vecchio, “Urban change and transmarine contacts in Late Antique Lilybaeum (Marsala): archaeological evidence and pottery”

Matteo G. Randazzo, “Mediterranean pottery routes in inland Sicily (6th-7th centuries): a re-examination of imported amphorae and tablewares from the Roman Villa del Casale (“Gentili’s excavations”) and remarks on surrounding settlements”

Salvatore Moncada, “Le anfore orientali in Sicilia tra il V ed VII secolo d.C.: alcune considerazioni sul commercio mediterraneo”

Giacomo Piazzini, Gloria Bolzoni, Marco Cavalazzi and David Hernandez, “Ceramic trade and distribution at the intersection of the eastern and western Mediterranean in the 5th – 7th centuries: new evidence from the Roman forum at Butrint (Buthrotum)”

Andrei Opaiţ, “Supplying olive oil to the lower Danube border region (2nd-6th centuries AD)”

Katerina Chamilaki, “A late Roman pottery assemblage from a port on the south coast of Aetolia (Kryoneri): preliminary remarks on pottery circulation in western central Greece”

Hasan Ertuğ Ergürer and İsmail Akkaş, “Parion: First researches on Late Antique coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae”

Anna V. Smokotina, “Cretan amphora imports into Bosporus in the 6th century”

Joachim Le Bomin, Julie Marchand and Aude Simony, “Long and middle-distance trade in the western Egyptian Delta during Late Antiquity: the Taposiris Magna and Kom Abu Billu examples”

Alexandra Ratzlaff, “A local amphora group at the harbour complex of Byzantine Caesarea”

 

  1. Workshops and production centres in the Mediterranean

Claudio Capelli and Michel Bonifay, “Archéométrie et archéologie des céramiques africaines: une approche pluridisciplinaire, 3”

Jihen Nacef†, “Les ateliers tardifs de Byzacène: l’exemple de l’atelier de Dkhila”

Luigi Gambaro, “Nuovi dati per una cronotipologia della ceramica commune di produzione locale e regionale ad Albintimilium nel V et VI secolo d.C.”

Maria Constantino, “La produzione locale a Napoli: Carminiello 18 – analisi di una forma anforica”

Maria Serena Rizzo, Serena Sanzo, Renato Giarrusso† and Angelo Mulone, “Una fornace per la produzione di anfore nel suburbio di Agrigento”

Davide Tanasi, Ilenia Gradante, Andrea Gennaro, Stephan Hassam, Mariarita Sgarlata†, Robert, H. Tykot and Andrea Vianello, “Chemical characterization via pXRF of Late Roman pottery from Sicily: new data from the excavations at the Catacombs of St. Lucy at Siracusa (2011-2015)”

Marzia Giuliodori, “Una produzione locale nella Gortina di età imperiale: la ceramica a globetti dallo scavo dell’altare al Theòs Ypsistos

 

  1. Regional contexts: western Mediterranean

Simonetta Menchelli, “Western regional contexts and their interconnectivity in the Late Roman Mediterranean: some case studies”

Filipa Araújo dos Santos, “Common wares form Workshop 1 of the fish-salting production centre of Tróia (Portugal): a context of the 5th century AD”

Patricia Valle Abad, Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Ángel Acuña Piñeiro and Alba A. Rodríguez Nóvoa, “Ánforas tardoantiguas de la necrópolis de la calle Hospital (Vigo, NW Spain)

Jerònima Riutort Riera and Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, “Archaeometric characterization of pottery from the rural site of Horts De Can Torras (Barcelona, Spain)”

Esperança Huguet, Francesc Rodríguez, Josep Maria Macias, Maria Assumpta Ramón, Albert Ribera and Miquel Rosselló, “Producciones locales e importaciones (s. VI-VII) en el recinto fortificado visigodo de València la Vella (Riba-roja de Túria)

Janne P. Ikäheimo and Victor M. Martinez, “Same as it ever was? Structured light 3D-scanning and the specific gravity of the Late Roman transport amphorae from North Africa and Spain”

Fernanda Inserra, Alessandra Pecci, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros and Jordi Roig Buxó, “Organic residue analysis of ceramics from two rural Late Antique sites in current Catalonia (northeastern Spain): food consumption and pottery use”

Claudio Capelli and Joachim Le Bomin, “De la Méditerranée vers l’Atlantique: typologie et archéométrie des amphores importées à Toulouse et Bordeaux durant l’antiquité tardive”

Barbara Maurina and Claudio Capelli, “S. Lorenzo 7 Amphorae from Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck (Mansio Sublavio) in northern Italy: archaeology and archaeometry”

Paola Ventura, “Aquileia, I vecchi rinvenimenti: anfore africane da un drenaggio nel suburbio meridionale”

Bianca Maria Mancini, “Late Roman amphorae from an industrial sector outside the monastery of St Severus at Classe (RA)”

Daniela Gandolfi, Michel Bonifay and Claudio Capelli, “Anfore e ceramiche africane dallo scavo delle mura settentrionali di Albintimilium (Ventimiglia, Liguria)”

Simonetta Menchelli, Claudio Capelli, Stephano Genovesi, Aurora Maccari and Roberto Cabella, “Luni, le domus presso Porta Marina: ceramiche da fuoco, comuni ed anfore dalle stratigrafie tardo-antiche”

Antonio Alberti, Alessandro Costantini and Claudia Rizzitelli, “Pisa, Piazza del Duomo: nuovi dati sulle fasi tardo antiche e altomedievali”

Francesca Diosono and Gian Marco Volpi, “Cucinare sull’Appennino: analogie e differenze morfologiche e tecniche dall’età repubblicana a quella altomedievale nelle ceramiche da cucina da Villa San Silvestro (Cascia, Italia)”

Stefano Bordoni, “Late Antique ceramic finds from Trebiae (Trevi-Umbria-Italy): preliminary report”

Carla Sfameni, Flavia Campoli and Giorgio Trojsi, “La ceramica comune tardoantica della villa romana di Cottanello (RI) in Sabina: analisi morfologiche ed archeometriche”

Alessia Contino and Alejandro Quevedo, “Contesti tardoantichi dai c.d. Magazzini Traianei a Portus (Fiumicino)”

Massimiliano David, Maria Stella Graziano and Stefano De Togni, “Ceramica e contesti tardoantichi delle indagini del Progetto Ostia Marina”

Alessandra Pegurri and Stella Nunziante Cesaro, “Ceramiche comuni a Roma in età tardoantica: nuovi dati dal Santuario delle Curiae Veteres

Giulia Schwarz, “Ceramiche da fuoco a Roma nell’età tardoantica. Nuovi dati dal santuario delle Curiae Veteres e dagli Horti Lamiani

Elisa Zentilini, “Late Roman fine and coarse wares from Larinum: the African Red Slip and the Red Painted wares”

Stefania Siano and Manuela Ferraioli, “Masseria Grasso (Benevento, Italy): a settlement on the ancient Via Appia in inland Campania. Analysis of late Roman pottery assemblages from the excavations of the Ancient Appia Landscapes Project”

Fabrizio Sudano, Cristiana La Serra and Mariangela Preta, “Palmi (RC), Tauriana dopo l’età classica: la ceramica comune in circolazione da insediamenti e sepolture”

Fabrizio Sudano and Stefania Mancuso, “La necropoli di località Marocumbo nel comune di Palizzi: nota preliminare”

Cristiana La Serra, “Simboli cristiani su ceramica da transporto: il caso della Calabria e delle Keay LII”

 

VOLUME 2

  1. Regional Contexts : eastern Mediterranean

Andrei Sazanov, “LRA1A: typology and chronology”

Natalia Poulou, “Byzantine globular amphorae in the Aegean (7th-9th centuries)”

Zvezdana Modrijan, “Late Antique coarse pottery from the eastern hinterland of the Caput Adriae

Piotr Dyczek, “Amphorae from Late Antique Novae: material from Sector IV”, 597

Andrei Sazanov, “The deposit of the 4th-9th century AD from Chersonesos (Crimea): problems of the chronology”

Dimitris Grigoropoulos, “Coarse wares of the middle and late Roman period from the 2015-2017 DAI excavations at the sanctuary of Kalapodi, East Phokis”

Sophia Didioumi and Stavroula Sdrolia, “Late Roman amphorae form the fortress of Velika, Thessaly (Greece): A preliminary report”

Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher, “Reconsidering the early Byzantine ceramic finds form the Vari cave”

Özgü Çömezoğlu Uzbek, “Amphorae and utility vessels from Basilica B, Andriake (Antalya, Turkey)”

Constantin Băjenaru, “Amphorae from late 4th and 5th century contexts in the late Roman fort at Ulmetum, province of Scythia

Görkem Senem Ozden Gerçeker, “Amphorae from the Black Sea region in the Sadberk Hanim Museum”

Andrei Opaiţ and Bianca Elena Grigoraş, “Cooking in Pompeiopolis (1st century BC – 7th century AD)”

Ayşe Ç. Türker, “Stands from the port of Üstünlü in the Hellespont”

Safiye Aydin, “Some observations on late Roman pottery from Olba in Cilicia, Türkiye”

Delphine Dixneuf, “La céramique de Farama-est: un contexte de la fin du IVe et du début du Ve siècle”

Joachim Le Bomin and Julie Marchand, “Sāqia pots from Taposiris Magna (Egypt): water supply vessels for baths”

Clementina Caputo and Paola Davoli, “Byzantine pottery from Soknopaiou Nesos (Fayyum, Egypt)”

Giacomo Tabita, “Mortaria romani in Mesopotamia centrale e loro influsso sulle produzioni vascolari del periodo Early Islamic nell’area del medio corso del fiume Eufrate: VII secolo d.C.”

 

  1. Regional contexts: Sicily and Mediterranean islands

Catalina Mas Florit, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, Alessandra Pecci and Alejandro Valenzuela, “A late Roman deposit from the Roman villa of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)”

Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, Catalina Mas Florit, Esther Chávez-Álvarez, Alejandro Valenzuela, A ceramic assemblage from the Byzantine period in the city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)”

Christina Nervi, “Le anfore orientali (LRA1, LRA2, LRA3 e LRA4) del porto di Olbia (Sardegna nord-orientale) in epoca tardo antica”

Salvatore De Vincenzo and Filippo Pisciotta, “Cornus: i materiali ceramici tardoantichi e Bizantini dell’area urbana”

Antonella Mandruzzato and Martina Seifert, “Marsala, “Zona Mura”: la ceramica da cucina tardoromana”

Chiara Caradonna, Giorgia Lanzarone, Alessandra Loglio and Maria Carmela Spagnolo, “Le attestazioni ceramiche di San Miceli (Salemi – TP): testimonianze dall’area di culto e dal contesto insediativo”

Giuzeppe Falzone, “Ceramiche comuni, da cucina ed anfore dallo scavo della necropoli paleocristiana di Agrigento: approccio integrato per un quadro di sintesi”

Michele Scalici, “Late Roman amphorae from the Roman Temple of Agrigentum: the 2016-2017 excavations”

Valentina Caminneci and Maria Concetta Parello, “Late Roman pottery from the Baths of Agrigento (Sicily, Italy)”

Paolo Barresi and Raffaella Federico, “Nuovi materiali inediti dalla Casa della Gazzella del Quartiere Ellenistico-Romano di Agrigento”

Anna Rita Pecoraro, “Ceramica tardo-romana dalla Casa IID del quartiere ellenistico-romano di Agrigento”

Carmela Bonanno, “Ceramica comune acroma di età tardoantica e bizantina in Sicilia: forme chiuse”

Caterina Trombi, “La ceramica acroma di uso commune dall’area del Santuario ellenistico romano di Agrigento: primi dati per una classificazione tipologica”

Marina Albertocchi, “La ceramica d’uso comune dal santuario ellenistico-romano ad Agrigento in un’età di transformazione: un progetto di studio”

Fabrizio Ducati, “Cignana Archaeological Project (Sicilia): ceramiche di produzione Africana dall’insediamento di età imperiale in contrada Viticchié”

Annalisa Amico, “Ceramica comune di età tardoantica dal sito in Contrada Vito Soldano a Canicattì (Agrigento)”

Mariacristina Papale, “Il territorito di Licata (AG) in età tardo antica: cultura materiale e commerci”

Francesca Valbruzzi, “L’insediamento di Case Bastione nel contesto delle dinamiche insediative rurali di età tardoantica e altomedievale nell’altopiano degli Erei, Sicilia centrale”

Matteo Randazzo, “La ceramica da cucina “Tipo Rocchicella” (fine VIII-IX secolo in Sicilia): complessità morfologica e distributiva di una produzione altomedievale e carattere regionale”

Philip Bes and Michalis Karambinis, “Into the great wide open: late roman pottery from Skyros (central Aegean)”

Rick Wohmann, Nicholas Rauh and Günder Varinlioğlu, “Amphorae and coarse wares from the Boğsak Island in South Turkey, 4th-9th centuries AD”

Anastasia Fiolitaki, “Coarse wares and amphorae from a glass workshop in Argyroupolis (ancient Lappa) in the region of Rethymno, Crete”

  1. Conclusion

Eliza Chiara Portale, “LRCW 6 e le vie della ceramica tardoromana”

 

Notes

[1] Peacock 1982: 79-80; Fulford-Peacock 1984: 8-10, 157-159, fig. 55-56; Montana et al. 2007.

[2] Menchelli 2023 [LRCW6]: 325.

[3] For the theoretical model of the ceramic cycle proposed by Theodore Peña, which is inspired by Schiffer’s broader model, see Peña 2007: 6-16 and Schiffer 1972: 157-160, respectively.