Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, Ali Osman Uysal, Johanna Witte-Orr (editors)

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Late Antique and Medieval Pottery and Tiles in Mediterranean Archaeological Contexts
Akdeniz Çevresindeki Arkeolojik Kazılarda Ele Geçen Geç Antik ve Ortaçağ Seramiği ve Mimari Seramiği


Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Late Antique, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Pottery and Tiles in Archaeological Context (Çanakkale, 1-3 June 2005)

Birinci Uluslararası Seramik Sempozyumu Arkeolojik Kazılarda Ele Geçen Geç Antik, Bizans, Selçuklu ve Osmanlı Seramiği ve Mimari Seramiği (Çanakkale, 1-3 Haziran 2005)


From the preface of the editors

The Symposium of Late Antique, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman Pottery and Architectural Ceramics from Archaeological Contexts, which took place in Çanakkale in June of 2005, was the happy result of a wish long nursed by the editors. It was obvious for a long time, and made clear by mutual visits to excavation sites, that the ceramic finds of surveys and excavations needed to be discussed with colleagues from other sites. The event had been planned as a "round table" at first, but found so much interest that it had to be expanded into a large symposium. Open questions for discussion included not only the chronology and terminology of ceramics, but also problems that span regions or countries. This publication of the symposium papers reflects the many topics and questions regarding clay, its uses in coarse and fine ceramics, and also in tiles, bricks and pipes. The geographic area covered by the papers has a large span, reaching from Italy to Turkey and the Crimea, from the Balkans, Greece, and Cyprus to Syria, Israel and Egypt, and therefore covers most of the regions influenced by the late Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. It is interesting not only to find recurring touch points between them, in the form of imported wares such as Byzantine Glazed White Ware in Italy or the influence imports had on local and regional potteries, but also to see the different expressions and characteristics of local wares, especially the mostly understudied coarse pottery.

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