John W. Hayes was the first to recognize this fabric in Nea Paphos, in several deposits from the House of Dionysos. He described it as a presumed product of the city of Soli and distinguished two phases of production (Hayes 1991: 81). Many scholars have linked the pottery more specifically with the neighborhood of Dhiorios, where pottery kilns have been uncovered. Several studies have shown that this category of pottery was present in Paphos from the 1st century BCE, but gained more popularity in the early Roman period and later again, in the Middle and Late Roman periods. Seems, that the same trend is reflected at many other sites on the island (Nocoń 2021).
Thin section petrography and elemental analyses (WD-XRF) were conduc...
The fabric is fairly hard, the fresh-break texture is hackly, the surface feels smooth save for some irregularities under the finger. On the exterior surface, a few coarse yellow inclusions are visible. Revealed in a fresh break were a few to medium frequent yellow, black, and orange inclusions, as well as frequent fine ) white, yellow, and black inclusions. Voids in the fresh break are few to frequent, fine to medium, rounded in shape.
The color of the external and internal ...
Paphos/Nea Paphos (Cyprus/Western South Coast)
Macroscopic, typological studies, quantification, and laboratory analyses of Early Roman cooking
pottery from the Agora were undertaken as part of the National Science Centre in Poland, grant MAESTRO 6 (No. 2014/14/A/ HS3/00283), directed by Prof. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Macroscopic, typological studies, quantification, and documentation of the Middle and Late Roman shards of this group, excavated within the Paphos Agora Project, were conducted with funds from a National Science Centre in Poland, grant Sonatina 4 (No. 2020/36/C/HS3/00173) implemented by Kamila Nocoń.
