Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture: Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600-2000 AD), Phase 1

This Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture involves the archiving, storing and making accessible of Medieval and Post-Medieval data from several archaeological missions in the eastern Mediterranean (period 600–2000 ad). The data mainly originate from pottery studies carried out during excavations in four major urban centres and during two surface surveys in their respective surroundings. The urban sites are Butrint in southern Albania, Athens in central Greece, Ephesus in western Turkey and Tarsus in eastern Turkey, the material culture of which is studied in relation to archaeological finds from rural settlements and towns in their hinterlands (e.g., Aetolia, Boeotia).Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Perio

'Porcellana' voor een Byzantijnse Keizer: de archeologie van culturele interactie, netwerken en eetpatronen in de Middeleeuwse Middellandse Zee

Oratie uitgesproken door Prof.dr. J.A.C. Vroom bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar in de Archeologie van Middeleeuws en Vroegmodern Eurazië aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 12 april 2019Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Perio

Production technology of glazed pottery in Chalcis, Euboea, during the Middle Byzantine period

This paper focuses on various categories of glazed pottery, which were in circulation in western Euboea (Greece) during the Middle Byzantine and Late Byzantine periods. The production technology and particularly the surface treatment of Byzantine glazed pottery have been investigated on the basis of 56 ceramic fragments from a rescue excavation in Orionos street in Chalkis, Euboea. This paper focuses on the manufacture of glazed pottery within the local pottery repertoire of Chalkis, while trying to contextualise the pottery typology and to consider the issues of technology. The chemical analysis by non-invasive energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) provided information about the compositional variation of the examined glazed ceramics assemblage. Moreover, sections of the samples were examined by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in order to determine the microstructure of the samples, as well as the vitrification and the porosity of the ceramic body. Finally, X-ray diffraction (XRD) was applied for qualitative mineralogical analysis indicating presence or absence of high temperature phases and information about firing conditions.Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Perio

From Xi’an to Birka and back: Constantinople as a nodal point in long-distance contacts during the Early Middle Ages

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Archaeology of the Near Eas

Food taboo or not food taboo, that is the question: changing cooking pots in south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria (ca. 3rd-9th centuries)

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Material encounters in a Byzantine setting (6th/7th-10th centuries CE)

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Trading activities in the eastern Mediterranean through ceramics between Late Antiquity and Fatimid times (seventh-tenth/eleventh centuries)

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Preface

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