Roland-Pierre Gayraud et Lucy Vallauri
avec la collaboration de Guergana Guionova et Jean-Christophe Tréglia
et la participation de S. Yona Waksman, Claudio Capelli et Roberto Cabella
Fustat II. Fouilles d’Isṭabl ʿAntar. Céramiques d’ensembles des IXe et Xe siècles
FIFAO 75, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 2017
21th GMPCA Conference poster (credits: GMPCA)
For the 21th archaeometry symposium organised by the GMPCA in Rennes (France – 18-21/04/17), a talk will be presented by POMEDOR members Jacques Burlot and Yona Waksman, about glaze recipes of early Turkish Pottery.
Title: Burlot J., Waksman S.Y., Bouquillon A., Bellot-Gurlet L.: Produire la glaçure des premières céramiques «turques» dans l’Ouest anatolien: analyse des matériaux et des techniques.
Pôle universitaire Saint-Jean-d’Angély
Nice
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A meeting organized by the "Databases and reference collections" working group of the CAI-RN network of French archaeological scientists gave the opportunity to present ongoing developments in Lyon's ceramics database, one of the largest European one for chemical data of archaeological ceramics. It is presently extended to 2D images and 3D models, with further developments re. data modeling, mining and sharing:
"Conserver, enrichir, exploiter, interconnecter : développements en cours de la base de données céramologiques de Lyon", S.Y. Waksman
Richard E. Jones and contributors
Sweet Waste: a view from the Mediterranean and from the 2002 excavations at the Tawahin es-Sukkar (Safi), Jordan
Potingair Press, 2017
Valentina Vezzoli
La céramique islamique d'Apamée de Syrie. Histoire de l'occupation du Quartier Nord-Est du XIIe au XIVe siècle
Fouilles d'Apamée de Syrie 3, Académie Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles 2016.
2016 has been an eventful year for the POMEDOR project - especially with its final conference and "Byzantine" banquet, some memories of which may be found here on the POMEDOR website.
It was also officially the last year of the project. But I was happy to hear that a new one, on food and foodways in the Crusader period, is starting in Israel, with participants who met at the POMEDOR conference in Lyon.
Stimulating further research was one of our aims, and I will be glad to hear about other initiatives, and to build up new projects of course!
Furthemore, the POMEDOR website will remain at the disposal of all registered members to post any relevant information, paper, etc. (for the latest paper on Byzantine amphorae, including a downloadable 3D model, see here).
For those who did not register yet, you may easily do so here.
The POMEDOR conference proceedings are smoothly moving forward, and I would like to thank warmly all the contributors for their reactivity.
The good news is that we will have a full-colour volume, so those who sent black and white versions of colour figures may still send the latter. The "making-of" of the "Byzantine" dinner and some of its recipes will also be included, thanks to Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger.
In the meantime, I hope to have the podcasts of the communications online in the near future.
I am looking forward to our next projects and meetings and, last but not least, very best wishes for a peaceful, fruitful, joyful 2017!
Yona Waksman
Chalcis was identifed as a production center of amphorae types Günsenin 2 and 3 - a prominent one for the latter type. This new result further highlights the role of Chalcis in maritime trade involving both food containers and tablewares, already pointed out by our study of the "MBP" tablewares.
The 2nd International Conference on Art & Archaeology 2016 will take place on December 11-14, 2016 in Jerusalem, Israel.
The POMEDOR project will be present through two communications:
"Archaeological and Archaeometric Investigations of Islamic and Crusader Pottery in the Levant"
Yona Waksman, France, Edna Stern, Anastasia Shapiro, Smadar Gabrieli, Israel, Alessandra Pecci, Spain
A 3D scanning campaign was carried out in Istanbul from the 2nd to the 7th of October, on a variety of medieval eastern Mediterranean ceramics from a private collection.
The aim of this campaign was to obtain high quality 3D models of complete pieces or profiles of several ceramics types and productions, including:
The resulting 3D models will be used for educational and research purposes. They may be considered as representatives of different productions studied in Lyon laboratory in the framework of the POMEDOR project.
3D models will be available through the new online interface of the ceramics database of the Lyon laboratory
The proceedings of the final conference of the POMEDOR project "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean" will appear in the series "Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient".
POMEDOR proceedings, recommandations to authors
Podcasts of the communications presented at the conference will also be available in the fall 2016.
