Amphoras and roof-tiles from Late Roman Cyprus: a compositional study of calcareous ceramics from Kalavasos-Kopetra

Rautman, Marcus; Neff, Héctor; Gómez, Basil; Vaughan, Sarah; Glascock, Michael D.

doi:10.1017/s1047759400018110

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“…As noted by Rautman et al (1999), and in common with other ceramic assemblages from Cyprus (Barlow and Idziak 1989), the four groups that we recognize separate into low-Ca, high-Al (non-calcareous) and high-Ca, low-Al (calcareous) compositions (Fig. 3).…”

Section: Figure 2 Compositional Groups For White Slip II (Ws) and Cypsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Either processing prior to firing or alteration during burial could have induced the compositional differences between the Roman fine wares and the extant clays (Freestone et al 1985;Arnold et al 1991), but they are most likely attributable to hydrochemical processes, which alter the amounts of alkali metals (including Cs and Rb) in weathering profiles over time (Brimhall and Dietrich 1987). The fine wares also have a compositional affinity with the L roof tiles, which appear to be the product of a well-organized, centralized industry rather than localized production (Rautman et al 1999).…”

Section: Figure 2 Compositional Groups For White Slip II (Ws) and Cypmentioning

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The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus

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Archaeological interpretations of ancient economies have been strengthened by chemical analyses of ceramics, which provide the clearest evidence for economic activity, and comprise both the objects of exchange and its means. Pottery is often manufactured from local materials, but its compositional diversity typically prevents significant patterns of resource utilization from being identified. Centrally located and positioned on traditional shipping routes, Cyprus maintained ties with and supplied a variety of distinctive ceramic products to the major commercial centres in the eastern Mediterranean throughout Antiquity. We analysed two Cypriot fine wares and a variety of utilitarian pottery, as well as samples of extant Cypriot clays to determine source provenance. These chemical analyses provide an objective indication of the origins of ancient (Bronze Age and Roman) ceramics manufactured on Cyprus. The distribution of the probable clay sources and the links between pottery style and the material environment also afford a perspective on the spatial organization of large-scale pottery production on the island. Compositional analysis provides the means to assemble geographies of pottery production and to unravel the interregional system of exchange that operated in Antiquity, but the ability to accomplish these tasks is predicated on systematic analyses of ceramic products and raw materials that are found far beyond the bounds of individual archaeological sites.

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The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus

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“…Among the finds at Kourion, David Williams has identified a fabric that is probably Cypriot and perhaps even local from Kourion (Williams, 1987: 237; Williams, 2005: 618). This diversity of fabrics is often noted on Cyprus, though positive identification of more kiln sites is still lacking (see Rautman et al , 1999: 379; Jacobsen, 2004: 145). The wide variety of fabrics recorded among the cargo assemblage from the 7th‐century shipwreck at Yassıada leaves little doubt that a complex network of production centres functioned simultaneously (Bass, 1982: 155–7; Alfen, 1996: 192–201).…”

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Two Late Roman Wrecks from Southern Cyprus

Leidwanger

2007

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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Two scattered Late Roman shipwrecks were discovered in the course of underwater survey at Cape Zevgari and Avdimou Bay off the southern coast of Cyprus. Each was transporting a primary cargo contained in amphoras, in one case either local or from nearby Syria or Cilicia, and the other certainly from the southern Levantine coast. The two wrecks offer insight into regional maritime exchange networks within the socio-economic context of late antique commerce around the island. Both sites also contribute to a greater understanding of the utility of systematic shallow-water survey to shipwreck archaeology.

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“…Studies of this type have been conducted in a range of cultural contexts and geographic regions (e.g. [19,30,31,42,48,53,54]), and have resulted in a greater understanding of both technological practice and human interaction. Geochemical analysis was chosen here to help illuminate the following question: Did potters choose different raw material sources during the course of the Neolithic mirroring shifts in settlement locations?…”

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