In May 2013, members of the POMEDOR team went to Paphos and Nicosia to sample cooking and table wares for various archaeometric analyses: chemical, petrographic and residue analysis.

The aims of this sampling campaign were to:

• Create reference chemical group(s) for the Paphos Theatre workshop;
• Identify sources of import;
• Begin investigations on the use of cooking wares.

Work concentrated on three close assemblages of the late 13th century:

• A post-earthquake context from Fabrika Hill, Paphos (excavations of the University of Sydney);
• A household assemblage found in a Roman-period tomb in Paphos, in secondary use as a house or a storage area for a house (excavations of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus);
• The convent of Agios Theodoros in Nicosia (excavations of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus).

More information in the "sampling campaigns" section