"In&Around” will be the 2nd international topical congress organised by the AIECM3 (International Association for the Study of Medieval and Modern Ceramics in the Mediterranean). It will take place in Faenza and will be related to the topic “pottery and community”.

POMEDOR members Van Verrocchio and Iryna Teslenko will be presenting their work.

The program of the communications and posters.

POMEDOR member Edna Stern will present the Crusader-period pottery from Acre at a ceramic seminar organised by POMEDOR and the "Laboratoire de Céramologie" in Lyon.

A talk entitled "Méditerranée orientale et Égée entre dominations byzantine et franque: l’apport des analyses de céramiques en laboratoire. Exemples à Chypre et en Eubée" will be given by Y. Waksman and present some of the results of the POMEDOR project.

Program of the series of seminars

The Levantine Ceramics Project (www.levantineceramics.org) will hold a workshop at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. The focus of this workshop will be on petro-fabrics and their associated wares. We welcome presentations of material from sites in Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan. Our goals are to devise a consistent naming system for petro-fabrics, and to build up the LCP web site by adding more, and more detailed, data.

The XIth AIECM3 Congress on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics will take place in Antalya. It will include a special session on pottery in Anatolia.

You can find here the call for papers.

POMEDOR member Philippe Trélat will be talking about fish consumption in Medieval Cyprus.

Program of the conference

The symposium “Networking through Fustat shards” gathers Egyptian and European curators and researchers involved in the study of Fustat pottery. It is co-organized by POMEDOR member Valentina VEZZOLI, with the participation of Yona WAKSMAN and of a new POMEDOR member Ahmad ALSHOKY - welcome!

The meeting is followed by the presentation of the new book "En Harmonie/Mutanāsiban. Art du monde islamique aux Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles", Racine.

Program of the meeting

A seminar focusing on archaeometric approaches to pottery studies in Ephesos, with a contribution by POMEDOR members Jacques Burlot and Yona Waksman on the Byzantine and Turkish periods.

Ephesos is one of the sites in Western Turkey where we are investigating the introduction of new pottery types, uses and technological features with the arrival of Turkish populations, at the Beylik and early Ottoman periods.

A conference by Ilias Anagnostakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens), in the framework of the series of conferences "Food, Spirits & Gastronomic Traditions in the Eastern Mediterranean" proposed by Evangelia Balta.

Followed by: "The old and new diet of the Aegean population"
by Angelos Sikalidis & Aleksandra Kristo (Yeni Yüzyil University)

Talks will be given by POMEDOR members Smadar Gabrieli and Edna Stern:

Session CYPRUS AND THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM IN THE 13TH CENTURY
Edna J. Stern (Israel Antiquities Authority), "A New Perspective on Lusignan Paphos and Its Harbor: Using the Ceramic Record"

Session DIGGING FOR NUNS: THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE CISTERCIAN NUNNERY OF ST THEODORE, NICOSIA
Smadar Gabrieli (University of Sydney / University of Western Australia), "At Home with the Nuns: The Ceramics Assemblages of St Theodore, Nicosia"