Cooking pots with an everted rim, thin walls (0,2-0,3 cm), and very wide (up to 3.5 cm) vertical handles with a shallow central groove.
Cooking pots of this kind are distributed across various locations, with only a limited presence in Cyprus, particularly in Nea Paphos, where only a few examples have been documented. These pots are frequently discovered at coastal sites in Asia Minor, including Elausina Sebastae, Anemurium, and Tarsus, as well as numerous inland sites. Interestingly, they have also been identified in more distant locales such as Caesarea Maritima, Carthage, and Kenchreai. The production and circulation of these cooking pots appear to have commenced around the 5th century CE, with the peak of their distributio...
Inclusions: Fabric shows that this group has few to frequent, fine to coarse white, yellow, grey or dark grey, pink inclusions.
Voids: Voids in the fresh break are few to frequent, fine to medium, elongated and rounded.
Hardness: Fabric is fairly hard or hard.
Feel: Feel of the surface is smooth with some irregularities.
Texture: Texture of the fresh break is hackly.
Colour: The colour of the external surface ranges between red (2.5 YR 6/2), pi...
Paphos/Nea Paphos (Cyprus/Western South Coast)
Research on Middle and Late Roman cooking pottery from the Paphos Agora Project was undertaken by Kamila Nocoń, and financed by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant SONATINA 4 (No. 2020/36/C/HS3/00173).
