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of products from this centre in the total number of analysed fragments makes it the Prin-
cipal centre from which pottery was imported to Risan (probably present-day Albania).
10. Vessels madę at workshops in present-day Albania are characterised by a large variety
of forms (bowls, kantharoi, olpai, plates, oinochoai, skyphoi, guttae, a lekanis and 10%
of fragments of unidentified form). Of the vessels produced at workshops on the Adriatic
coast 40% of analysed sherds were not attributable to any form, the remainder representing
bowls, kantharoi and olpai.
11. Some of the analysed vessel sherds were originally fired exclusively in a reducing at-
mosphere (23 samples), signifying that these fragments could not have come from vessels
decorated using oxidising-reducing-reoxidising technology. Of the 23 fragments fired in
a reducing atmosphere, 21 were madę at production centre 200.
Potsherds fired in a reducing atmosphere probably represent wares described by
D. Ujes as “pottery madę from soft, grey clay” which she dates to the late 3rdand 2nd
centuries BC and describes as pottery inspired by simple, late Gnathia-type vessels from
the eastern Adriatic coast.49
12. Regarding the technology of the surface fmishing:
nonę has a surface of the black-gloss type;
one has a black surface resulting from usage (soot-staining);
one has a polished surface, blackened by carbon (fumigation);
one has a very glossy slip, coated (soaked) in an organie substance after firing;
109 are variously coated with black-slip; these include:
a) 23 sherds consistently fired in one atmosphere — a reducing atmosphere;
b) 71 sherds initially fired in an oxidising atmosphere and subseąuently in a reducing
atmosphere;
c) 15 sherds fired in fluctuating conditions.

Acknowledgements
M. Baranowski would like to thank Prof. P. Dyczek and his team for allowing access to
112 pottery sherds and archaeological records for his M.A. thesis and for agreeing to their
use in this publication.
The authors are also grateful to D. Cottica for providing four fragments of Gnathia pottery
from her excavations in Pompeii for comparative studies.
We are indebted to H. Mommsen for sharing his valuable time and database with us and
to G. Schneider for the discussion.

49 Ujes 1999, p. 208.