Site characterization: The amphora workshop was associated with a near Late Roman port from which its products could conveniently be exported, since the island was included in the Quaestura justiniani exercitus in the 6th c.

Background: Rescue excavations on Paros unearthed a considerable amount of ceramic wasters and debris, and a later rescue excavation revealed two kilns.

Location: Less than 100 m from the coast and very close to the settlement of Laggeri, attested by the remains of a few buildings and storerooms of "a very active Late Roman port" (Diamanti 2016: 691).

Number of kilns: At least three, two of which are published.

Period of activity: Late 6th to the late 7th or early 8th c., according to the excavator (Diamanti 2016). The workshop produced LRA1s (also called the Parian Type 1) until the first half of the 7th c. and LRA13s (Parian Type 2) until the end of the workshop's existence. However, this chronology has been challenged, and Poulou-Papadimitriou (2018: 35) asserts that the workshop’s date should be pushed back to the second half of the 7th to the 8th c.

Description of facilities: The layout of two of the three kilns is nearly identical: a ca. 7 x 4 m rectangular blueprint with three square piers on each of two opposite walls, which supported arches that held firing chamber floor which laid above (Fig. 6).

Typology: The types produced were variations of the LRA1 and LRA 2C (LRA13), which are locally called the Parian Type 1 and Type 2 amphoras, respectively. The Parian Type 1 has "a rim diameter of 7-8 cm, a cylindrical neck up to 10 cm in height, not perfectly but often grooved handles, a cylindrical and not so strongly ribbed body of ca. 20 cm diameter at its maximum, and a rounded base" (Diamanti 2023: 286–287). The Parian Type 2 has a "an ovoid body, elongated conical neck up to 9-10 cm in height, a rim with a maximum diameter of 7-8 cm and sometimes hook-shaped interior, and more horizontal and sometimes arched handles that are oval in section and often grooved" (Diamanti 2023: 287-289). This local typology is a key piece of data in understanding the transition from the set of common Roman-Byzantine amphoras—the LRA 1 and 2—to a single type, the 'Byzantine Globular' amphora, in the later Byzantine period. 

Local Fabric: "...Brown in colour (7 YR 6/6) and quite fine with several calcareous particles, mica flakes and other inclusions" (Diamanti 2016).

Distribution: Priniatikos Pyrgos (based on typology).