Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth

Joyner, Louise

doi:10.2972/hesp.76.1.183

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“…). A Byzantine connection may thus be acknowledged in this tempering practice, and it might be specific to central Greece, as vegetal tempering is not reported so far at Corinth (Joyner ).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…, BZN317) could prove to be a mudstone‐tempered fabric through petrographic examination. By contrast, at Corinth, several mudstone‐rich fabrics were used for cooking pots but those contain only rare inclusions of calcareous mudstone (Joyner , 202).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unlike the local or regional diffusion of fabric recipes during the Byzantine period, the practice of sediment pounding or rock crushing may not have been restricted to Thebes or central Greece. At Corinth, since the early days of the Frankish domination, cooking pots also contained chert and mudstone inclusions of strong angularity and wide size‐ranges (Joyner , 192–3, 200). Further afield, a similar fabric texture is recorded by petrography among cooking pots found at the city of Genoa and interpreted as imports from Spain or Provence (Capelli and Cabella , 5–6, 15).…”

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“…In addition to these, geological literature provided further information on the mineralogical assemblages and sedimentary resources of central Greece. Finally, petrographic information is available in the literature for household pottery from the crusader state of Cyprus (Gabrieli ), and for late medieval cooking pots from Corinth (Joyner ), Catalonia (Allepuz et al . ) and Liguria (Capelli and Cabella ).…”

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“…Petrographic analyses have been undertaken on late Byzantine and Frankish kitchen wares from Corinth in the Peloponnese (Joyner ). The results of this study point to the local production of these vessels, with the gradual adaptation of pot shapes to Frankish standards and the standardization of ceramic paste recipes when Venetian settlers fled from Constantinople to Corinth in 1261 (Joyner , 188, 205). These results demonstrate some causality between major political changes in Greece, resettlement of populations, adaptations of culinary practices and craft technology.…”

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This paper provides new data on an under‐documented topic in Aegean archaeology, that of the impact of Latin–Greek cohabitation on craftsmanship, socio‐economic organization and household pottery traditions. The chosen approach is a petrographic study of the provenance and technology of 37 cooking pots, jugs, basins and storage jars from the city of Thebes, Boeotia. The ceramics span from the late 12th to the mid‐14th century and thereby cover the periods of Byzantine, Frankish and Catalan control over the city. The analysis indicates that most pottery products were not locally made during these periods. Pottery consumption at Thebes involved, in the 12th/13th century, regional products from northern Boeotia, while pottery supplies from Euboea that had developed under Byzantine rule continued into the 14th century, well after Boeotia and Euboea came into the hands of, respectively, Frankish and Venetian lords in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1204). The petrographic analysis also allows for the characterization of Byzantine and Latin tempering practices of the pottery fabrics. These results highlight phenomena of regional economic reliance in central Greece and provide rare evidence for the cross‐cultural diffusion of technological knowledge in the late medieval Mediterranean.

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Elemental analysis of ancient ceramics is primarily used in provenance research, where defined compositional groups are attributed to particular raw materials sources or production locations. Requirements in data quality and analytical performance are high, as is the need for clear and reproducible methodologies, and the availability of information on the above to ensure interlaboratory comparability and long-term data validity. This paper outlines the measurement parameters of a dedicated calibration set-up for the analysis of ancient ceramics using wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (WDXRF). The specimens are prepared as concentrated glass beads, allowing the measurement of 26 elements from a single sample, thus minimising sample size requirements. Certified and non-commercial standards are used to evaluate the performance of the method in terms of detection limits, precision, repeatability, and accuracy. The materials used cover a range of compositions in line with the matrix variability encountered in archaeological ceramics. The data confirm the high standard of the method and highlight specific limitations. An initial assessment of comparability with other set-ups used in ceramic analyses, primarily Neutron Activation Analysis, is given through a discussion of performance on commonly analysed materials. The advantages of the proposed method include excellent analytical performance, analysis of a large suite of elements including all major, minor and a good range of traces, relatively small sample sizes, and preparation of samples that can be stored and re-analysed.

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Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

Exploring Diversity in Household Pottery Traditions in Crusader Greece: a Case Study from the City of Thebes, Boeotia

Exploring Diversity in Household Pottery Traditions in Crusader Greece: a Case Study from the City of Thebes, Boeotia

Development and calibration of a WDXRF routine applied to provenance studies on archaeological ceramics

Ceramic Production and Dietary Changes at Juffure, Gambia

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