Production and consumption of Hellenistic and Early Roman cooking ware at Nea Paphos on Cyprus

Marzec, Edyta; Nocoń, Kamila; Miziołek, Monika; Müller, Noémi S.; Kiriatzi, Evangelia

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104432

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104432

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Production and consumption of Hellenistic and Early Roman cooking ware at Nea Paphos on Cyprus

Edyta Marzec,

Kamila Nocoń,

Monika Miziołek

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Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach

Vasileiou,

Vionis

2024

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The early medieval times in Cyprus are signified, conventionally, by the Arab invasions of the mid-seventh century (649/650CE). Past research viewed those events as the catalyst which led to a transformation from a prosperous province to a marginal territory balancing between two antagonising empires. Recently, studies have shifted their focus on reassessing this period’s scant -yet present- material culture. In pottery studies, despite the advances in typological and distribution aspects, few have explored technological issues of early medieval ceramic production through instrumental analysis. This study focuses on the compositional and technological characterisation of cooking vessels through ceramic petrography (TL-OM), found in relevant contexts in Cyprus, representing both wheel-thrown and handmade traditions. Sherds coming from five major early-medieval sites of the island (sites of Kophinou, Kalavasos-Kopetra, Akrotiri, Yeroskipou-Ayioi Pente and Dhiorios), outlined a picture of two parallel trends transversing across sites, i.e., an inter-regional shared sense of shape uniformity smoothening the local variances and a strong regionalism in terms of raw material procurement. Wheel-thrown cookware -found in every site and strongly represented by the Dhiorios workshop- showed the survival of Late Antique shapes well into the Early Middle Ages, in fabrics related mainly to the broader area of Dhiorios. In addition, handmade vessels of a "shared repertoire" showed a variety of local clays for their manufacture. When integrated into their archaeological context in Cyprus, the results support the idea of a ceramic koine persisting through the beginning of the Byzantine Early Middle Ages on an intra and inter-regional level.

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Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach

Vasileiou,

Vionis

2024

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Another Strand in the Web. The Connection Between Nea Paphos and the Region of North‐western Cyprus Based on an Integrated Investigation of the Middle and Late Roman Cooking Pottery

Nocoń,

Marzec

2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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SummaryThe focus of this paper is the Middle and Late Roman (third–seventh centuries AD) cooking pottery recovered during the excavations at the Agora in Nea Paphos. Macroscopic investigation suggested that a part of this assemblage was imported from north‐western Cyprus. To verify this assumption, selected samples were analysed with thin section petrography and wavelength dispersive X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry. The results of an integrated macroscopic and laboratory analysis indicated the presence of two typologically distinguishable groups characterized by the same fabric. Comparative studies suggest that they were likely produced in the area of Dhiorios located in north‐western Cyprus. It was also noted that the cooking pottery vessels characterized by the same fabric were being imported to Nea Paphos already in the first century AD. The continuity of the production and exportation of the Dhiorios pottery suggests the economic importance of north‐western Cyprus throughout the entire Roman period.

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Production and consumption of Hellenistic and Early Roman cooking ware at Nea Paphos on Cyprus

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Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach

Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach

Another Strand in the Web. The Connection Between Nea Paphos and the Region of North‐western Cyprus Based on an Integrated Investigation of the Middle and Late Roman Cooking Pottery

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