Recipient Veronica Acari
Date 01 April, 2024
Amount £5095.00
Summary The nature and scale of regional and interregional trade through the proxy of ceramics in Late Antique North Africa been the subject of much debate amongst archaeologists and economic historians. This issue has been mainly approached through the study of the distribution of ceramic fineware such as the ARS, or amphorae, with far less attention devoted to the production and circulation of other categories of common ceramics. A distinctive type of painted common ceramics dated between the end of the 5th and the 7th century has been found at multiple North African sites, but these have never been studied at any depth. This project will conduct the first interdisciplinary study of a group of recently excavated painted ceramics from the Medjerda Valley (Tunisia) in order to understand their production technology, provenance and distribution and thus to contribute to wider discussions on local, regional and interregional networks in Late Antique North Africa.