A Sixth-Century Context at Olympia (SW Building),

Lawall, Mark L. & John Lund (edited by), Pottery in the Archaeological Record: Greece and Beyond. Acts of the International Colloquium held at the Danish and Canadian Institutes in Athens, June 20-22, 2008, 2011

Materiale si Cercetari Arheologice, 2018

In this paper we present the North‐African tableware discovered in the first four years (2013 to 2016) of archaeological excavations in the Acropolis Centre‐South Sector in Histria. In smaller numbers than the Late Roman C Ware, the African Red Slip Ware is attested in this sector by 38 shards, pertaining to 7 forms with 11 types of pottery. Chronologically, the material belongs to the Late Roman period and can be dated to the 4th–7th centuries AD

Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta , 1996

Hellenistic Marisa 1 , the Greek form of the Hebrew name Maresha mentioned several times in the Bible, is located in the Shephelah, the foothills of the Judean Mountains, 40 km to the southwest of Jerusalem. The Hellenistic city was inhabited by Greeks, Sidonians, indigenous Idumeans 2 until captured and completely destroyed by Hyrcanus I in 112/111 BCE or shortly thereafter 3. Marisa comprises a substantial number of subterranean complexes 4 , most filled with unstratified anthropogenic debris, representing either habitation material dumped from the surface or from collapsed dwellings 5. To date, Subterranean Complex 169 (henceforth SC169, figs. 1-2) represents the most opulent assemblage of diverse objects of daily use and cultic material, tableware and utility pottery, oil lamps, terracotta figurines, incense altars, chalk phalli, amulets and jewellery, game boards, glass and faience objects, votive plaques, Aramaic divination texts, Greek ostraca, coins, seals and sealings, loom weights and whorls 6. The bulk of ceramic finds, dating from the 3rd to the late 2nd cent. BCE, documents a well-todo population, linked to existing Eastern Mediterranean trading networks. The imported fine tableware, comprising Egyptian red-and black-gloss fabrics, Campana A Ware, Pergamene vessels, the Ivy Platter Group and Eastern Sigillata A Ware reached Marisa mainly during the 2nd cent. BCE at a time when Attic imports no longer played a central role 7. A similar picture emerges from the ceramic imports at Alexandria 8. Ptolemaic Red Ware (henceforth PRW) and Ptolemaic Black Ware (PBW) represent a category rarely recorded in archaeological excavations in the southern Levant. The SC169 assemblage

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