Preliminary results of the organic residue analysis of 13th century cooking wares from a household in Frankish Paphos (Cyprus)
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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.
POMEDOR final conference, Lyon 19-21/5: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
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Start date and time
Thursday, 19 May 2016
End date and time
Saturday, 21 May 2016
Within the rapidly expanding area of research on food and foodways, the medieval eastern Mediterranean is still very much an unexplored area. The aim of the POMEDOR project was to explore this new field in a multidisciplinary way and to stimulate further research.
"Noms de vignes et de raisins et techniques de vinification à Byzance. Continuité et rupture avec la viticulture de l’antiquité tardive"
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An article written by Ilias Anagnostakis published in a journal edited by the European Institute for the History and Culture of Food.
Complete reference : Anagnostakis, I., 2013. Noms de vignes et de raisins et techniques de vinification à Byzance. Continuité et rupture avec la viticulture de l’antiquité tardive. Food & History, 11(2): 35-59.
2nd POMEDOR meeting, Nicosia May 13th
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Start date and time
13 May 2013
This second meeting brought together members of the core POMEDOR group together with new members of the network, especially Cypriot and other colleagues working on Cyprus. We were welcomed at the Leventis municipal Museum of Nicosia by its Director Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi.
POMEDOR 1rst sampling campaign, Cyprus May 2013
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POMEDOR 1rst sampling campaign, Cyprus May 2013
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Cooking pot, Exhibition "Fragments: Ceramic Finds from Byzantine and Medieval Nicosia”, Nicosia 2013
Start date and time
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
End date and time
Thursday, 23 May 2013
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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).