DOI issue:
Lebanon
DOI article:Domżalski, Krzysztof; Wicenciak, Urszula; Tayeb, Mahmoud el; Waliszewski, Tomasz: Late hellenistic and early roman pottery production center at Jiyeh rescue excavations, 2004
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42090#0437
JIYEH
LEBANON
Jiyeh are similar in form and fabric to the
material from Beirut,6 especially the
amphorae produced in Beirut in the mid
1st century AD. However, unlike the Beirut
ones,7 the amphorae from Well 1 (B4) bear
no potters' marks.
Below the third meter, there appeared
another form of amphorae, as well as several
forms of utility vessels, such as cooking
pots, casseroles, pans, jugs, juglets, bowls
and pot-stands. Some of these forms were
represented by only a few sherds, including
over-fired ones. Nearly all of the mention-
ed vessels have distinctive subtypes, espe-
cially recognizable by their rims and necks.
The prevailing kitchen ware vessels includ-
ed cooking pots and casseroles with sag-
ging or flat bases,8 among which four main
variants could be distinguished. The Beirut
analogies date the majority of these vessels
tentatively to the mid-lst century AD.9
Fig. 8. Locally made amphora form 1
(Photo M. Kisieleivicz, drawing U. Wicenciak)
6 Mr. Abdallah Ala'eddine kindly consulted this material.
7 P. Reynolds, "Amphorae in Roman Lebanon 50 BC to AD 250", Archaeology and History in Lebanon, Spring 2003,
120-131.
8 Cf. C. Aubert, "Les ceramiques hellenistiques de Beyrouth. Caracteristiques des productions locales'1, in: F. Blonde,
P. Ballet, J.-F. Salles (eds.), Ceramiques hellenistiques et romaines. Productions et diffusion en Mediterranee orientale
(Chypre, Egypte et cote syro-palestinienne) (Lyon 2002), 73-84.
9 Cf. A. Berlin, The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery: The Plain Wares, Tell Anafa 11:1 (Ann Arbor 1997), PI. 24:PW208.
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LEBANON
Jiyeh are similar in form and fabric to the
material from Beirut,6 especially the
amphorae produced in Beirut in the mid
1st century AD. However, unlike the Beirut
ones,7 the amphorae from Well 1 (B4) bear
no potters' marks.
Below the third meter, there appeared
another form of amphorae, as well as several
forms of utility vessels, such as cooking
pots, casseroles, pans, jugs, juglets, bowls
and pot-stands. Some of these forms were
represented by only a few sherds, including
over-fired ones. Nearly all of the mention-
ed vessels have distinctive subtypes, espe-
cially recognizable by their rims and necks.
The prevailing kitchen ware vessels includ-
ed cooking pots and casseroles with sag-
ging or flat bases,8 among which four main
variants could be distinguished. The Beirut
analogies date the majority of these vessels
tentatively to the mid-lst century AD.9
Fig. 8. Locally made amphora form 1
(Photo M. Kisieleivicz, drawing U. Wicenciak)
6 Mr. Abdallah Ala'eddine kindly consulted this material.
7 P. Reynolds, "Amphorae in Roman Lebanon 50 BC to AD 250", Archaeology and History in Lebanon, Spring 2003,
120-131.
8 Cf. C. Aubert, "Les ceramiques hellenistiques de Beyrouth. Caracteristiques des productions locales'1, in: F. Blonde,
P. Ballet, J.-F. Salles (eds.), Ceramiques hellenistiques et romaines. Productions et diffusion en Mediterranee orientale
(Chypre, Egypte et cote syro-palestinienne) (Lyon 2002), 73-84.
9 Cf. A. Berlin, The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery: The Plain Wares, Tell Anafa 11:1 (Ann Arbor 1997), PI. 24:PW208.
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