Connecting Late Roman and Early Byzantium: Investigating the technological tradition of 6th c. AD glazed wares from Northern Greece and Bulgaria
Glazed wares found in Thasos (Greece) and in a pottery workshop in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 6th c. AD contexts were investigated using WD-XRF (body analysis) and SEM-EDS (glaze analysis). In both cases, they associate low-calcareous bodies and high-lead glazes, with lead compounds probably applied without the addition of silica before a single firing. This technical tradition is common to the 4th−5th c. Late Roman glazed wares studied so far, from the Balkans to Northern Italy, and to the 7th c. AD “Byzantine Glazed White Ware I”. Our corpus may thus be seen as the “missing link” between the Late Roman and the Early Byzantine glazed wares, before glazed tableware meet with a remarkable development later on in Byzantium.
Authors
- Elisaveta Todorova
- Jacques Burlot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6451-1788)
- Guergana Guionova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5836-7433)
- Snezhana Goryanova
- Platon Petridis
- Metodi Daskalov
- S.Y. Waksman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-3521)
- G. Giannaki
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG)
- Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique (FR)
- Archéologie et Archéométrie (FR)
- Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (FR)
- National Museum of Natural History (BG)
- Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
- Published
- 2024-10-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104822
- Primary Topic
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Bulgarian National Science Fund
- Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Étrangères
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation