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.
Residues analysis was carried out on medieval cooking wares from a closed context in Paphos, Cyprus, to see if different food and foodways could be identified in local pots and pans and in cooking wares imported from Frankish Beirut.
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Amphithéâtre Benveniste
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The POMEDOR conference was a fruitful and friendly event, bringing together for 3 days in Lyon historians, archaeologists, archaeological scientists, museum curators and ... cooks!
Welcome to the POMEDOR conference!
Our team in front of the Vivier Castle, Paul Bocuse Institute: from right to left Nicole Flores, Jacques Burlot, Aybüke Öztürk, Shadi Shabo and Lucie Courbe.
Conference Sessions
During 3 days, historians, archaeologists, archaeological scientists... were presenting their research and debating. See the program of the communications and posters.
Lunches and coffee breaks
Participants had brought for the coffee breaks nice "goodies" from all over!
... and the highlight of the conference: the Byzantine dinner at the Bocuse Institute!
Ilias Anagnostakis, historian of Byzantium at the National Hellenic Foundation of Athens, Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger, food historians and experimental archaeologist, designed the recipes, based among others on texts written in the 12th c. by Eustathios of Thessaloniki. The dinner was realized as a pedagogic project for 50 international students, in collaboration with a team of the Paul Bocuse Institute, including Maxime Michaud, Alain Dauvergne, Jean Philippon and Philippe Rispal. The dinner was under the patronage of chef Régis Marcon. See the menu (design Alain Dauvergne).
Replicas of Byzantine pottery were made on this occasion by potter Jean-Jacques Dubernard.
Oinogaron was served in a replica of a chafing dish, based on a model found in the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors in Constantinople.
A table beautifully dressed thanks to Alain Dauvergne.
Sea food monokythron light broth, stuffed quail, and kollyba and diplos spouggaton soufflé omelette for dessert.
A summary of the history of medieval Eastern Mediterranean pottery: Byzantine White Wares, main "Middle Byzantine Production", Port Saint-Symeon Wares...
Prosfora bread made with moulds manufactured in a monastery of mount Athos ... and with a plastic one found in the market of the old city of Crusader Acre.
Andrew Dalby introducing the dishes and wines to us, and chef Jean Philippon with his students.
Preparing the dinner
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Photos: L. Courbe, N. Flores, A. Shapiro, Institut P. Bocuse, Anemon Productions, S. Zelenko
.. were made by Jean-Jacques Dubernard, a potter operating in Roussillon near Lyon, on the special occasion of the Byzantine dinner organized for POMEDOR final conference.
Jean-Jacques has been working with Lyon laboratory in the past, especially on recreation of Roman pottery.
Replicas of Byzantine White Wares (Impressed White Ware, Shafing Dish...), of the main Middle Byzantine Production (Fine Sgraffito, Aegean Ware, Champlevé, Green and Brown Painted Ware, Slip-Painted Ware), and of Zeuxippus Ware, late sgraffito ware, Port-Saint Symeon Ware were made following archaeological models.
They will be used later on as educational material, especially for the workshop "Archaeological and archaeometric approaches to ceramics. Pottery of the Byzantine world and of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean" organized every 2 years in Lyon by S.Y. Waksman.
