Ceramics

“No Island is an Island”: The Byzantine Mediterranean in The Early Middle Ages (600s-850s)

“…66 As this type of amphorae were made in different coastal and insular areas of the Byzantine empire (including Cyprus) between the seventh and late ninth century, they also pair with painted wares and chafing dishes produced in various workshops (located in Cyprus as well as Crete, southern Anatolia, Cherson and southern Italy) and circulating throughout the Mediterranean. 67 In other words, ceramic evidence of the type documented in Cyprus pairs with that yielded in other areas of the Byzantine Mediterranean (including islands like Sicily and coastal island-like settlements like Amalfi and Comacchio on which I will return in few moments). They point to an intra-regional long distance or cabotage movement of wares/small globular amphorae as well as an active interregional exchange between shipping zones (with overlapping networks of production and distribution).…”

“…They were placed on or near the table as a sort of multipurpose portable brazier/cooking utensils with an authepsa (hot water samovar) to heat food. 80 As Paul Arthur has cogently concluded , the distributive pattern of chafing dishes should be regarded as both a commercial and cultural one for it is an illustration of specific culinary custom mainly practiced in those areas under Byzantine control. 81 One cannot but notice that a similar pattern can be surmised for the circulation of globular amphorae.…”

“…; on the other hand, islands like Sardinia and Sicily were often regarded as nest of pagan traditions like in the case of Life of Leo the Martyr who fought "the magician" Heliodorus in Catania in the eighth century (Alexis. G. Alexakis, The Greek Life of St. Leo Bishop of Catania (BHG 981b), Brussels 2011, pp [79][80][81][82][83][84][85]…”

“The Navigators”. Mediterranean Cities and Urban Spaces in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600 – ca. 850 CE)

“…Ceramic evidence points to a good degree of local production as paired with imports like globular amphorae 62 . Indeed, it is not by chance that this typology of vessels has been identified as the main marker of the Byzantine koine, for they also paired with painted wares, ovoidal amphorae, and chafing dishes circulating throughout the Mediterranean as produced in various workshops (located in Cyprus as well as Crete, southern Anatolia, Cherson, and southern Italy) 63 . Globular amphorae point to what Vroom describes as an intra-regional long-distance or cabotage movement […] as well as an active interregional exchange between shipping zones (with overlapping networks of production and distribution) 64 .…”

Η Εφυαλωμένη Κεραμική Από Την Πόλη Των Θηβών

“…)510 , στη Θήβα (ύστερος 16 ος αι., πορσελάνη Ming, ή καλής ποιότητας απομίμησή της)511 (εικ. 91 α) και στη Βοιωτία (πορσελάνη εργαστηρίων Κίνας ή Meissen)512 , στη Λευκωσία 513 (πορσελάνη Ming περιόδου, 16 ος αι. ), στο Χλεμούτσι (δύο όστρακα πιθανόν κινέζικα, 16 ος αι.…”