DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10222989
title: Macroscopic Groups of Middle and Late Roman Cooking Pottery from Agora in Nea Paphos (Cyprus)

description: The database contains cataloged fragments of cooking pottery from macroscopic groups.
Data collected within the project "Production and consumption of cooking pottery from the research of the Paphos Agora Project on Cyprus in the Middle and Late Roman periods (3rd-7th century CE) on the background of political, economic, and social changes" funded by the National Science Centre in Poland (grant Sonatina 4, no. 2020/36/C/HS3/00173). PI Kamila Nocoń
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the source, the time and place of the data collection: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Fitch Laboratory Britisch School at Athens; Archaeological Park in Nea Paphos (Cyprus), years 2020-2023

name of the author: Kamila Nocoń, PhD

ORCID: 0000-0003-2522-6981 

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description of the research context: Agora in Nea Paphos and Trial Trenches located within the Archaeological Park in Nea Paphos Cyprus excavated by the Paphos Agora Project, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, between 2011-2019, under the supervision of prof. dr hab. E. Papuci-Władyka

description of methodology: The macroscopic fabric analysis was conducted adopting the system developed by Clive Orton and Michael Hughes(2013). The macroscopic fabrics were grouped and described using the following criteria: frequency, size, color, sphericity, and roundness of the inclusions visible in the fresh break; frequency, size and shape of the voids, and the color of the fresh break and surface; fired core type, hardness, as well as the feel of the surface; and the texture of the fresh break. The pottery was examined by the naked eye in natural light and with a magnifying glass (#10). If necessary, a Delta Optical SZ-430B microscope was used to define the macroscopic fabric. Typological and chronological analyses were undertaken exclusively on diagnostic sherds. First, the vessels were divided into the following forms: cooking pots, casseroles, jugs, bowls, mugs, lids, and undefined closed vessels, tec. Next, each formwas classified into types, taking into consideration morphological features, including the shape of the body and the rim, the presence or absence of a handle or handles and its/their shape, thickness of walls, and diameter of the rim. Given that most of the vessels are incomplete, the diameter of the rim was mainly measured with the use of a rimchart. The wall thickness was measured along the neck, shoulder, or body. The chronology was established on the basis of the context data and published analogies of cooking pottery from Nea Paphos and other sites in Cyprus and/or in the Mediterranean.The integration of the data obtained from these analyses resulted in the definition of 12 preliminary Macroscopic Fabric Groups.

format: xlsx

licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationa

funding agency: National Science Centre, Poland

title of the project: Production and consumption of cooking pottery from the research of the Paphos Agora Project on Cyprus in the Middle and Late Roman periods (3rd-7th century CE) on the background of political, economic and social changes. 

number of the project: 2020/36/C/HS3/00173

keywords:Nea Paphos, cooking pottery, Macroscopic analyses, Middle and Roman Period, Eastern Mediterranean

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10222990

discipline: Archaeology

language: English

comment:Orton C. and Hughes M. 2013. Pottery in Archaeology. 2nd edition. CambridgeManuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University.