Medieval ceramics from the Türbe excavations in Ephesos / Ayasuluk: an archaeometric viewpoint ywaksman

Production and imports - especially of MBP wares from Chalcis - were investigated in Ephesos between the Middle Byzantine and the early Turkish periods, which sees the introduction of new wares in the local repertoire.

Medieval pottery production in a long-term perspective in Pergamon and Ephesos ywaksman

A paper entitled "Long-term pottery production and chemical reference groups: examples from Medieval Western Turkey", mentioning the introduction in the local repertoire of new types, ceramics techniques and fashions with the arrival of the Turkish populations - a question directly related to POMEDOR themes.

PIXE and PIGE analyses at the C2RMF

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PIXE and PIGE analyses at the C2RMF
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A bowl from a shipwreck analyzed by ion beam at AGLAE (© J. Burlot)
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Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France
Louvre - Paris

France

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Yona Waksman and Jacques Burlot went to the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF) in Paris, in order to analyze Byzantine and Early Turkish ceramics coming from archaeological sites (Ephesos, Pergamon, Sardis, Iznik) and from museum collections (Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres). The study was carried out with the collaboration of Anne Bouquillon (C2RMF) and of Laurence Tilliard (Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres). It proposed to investigate provenance and technologies of different ceramic types such as Aegean ware and Miletus ware.

Analyses were carried out by non-destructive ion beam analyses, by PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission) and PIGE (Particle Induced Gamma-Ray Emission), at the Accélérateur Grand Louvre d’Analyses Elémentaires (AGLAE), in order to obtain the elemental compositions of the different materials composing ceramics (body, slip, glaze).

The purpose of such analyses was, on the one hand, to investigate the origin of museum examples, and on the other hand to investigate the introduction of new technological features in pottery production during the transition between the Byzantine and the early Turkish periods in Western Turkey.

Date: 

Tuesday, 30 September 2014 to Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 to Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Wednesday, 27 May 2015 to Thursday, 28 May 2015

 

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POMEDOR 5th sampling campaign, Western Turkey July-August 2014 ywaksman
POMEDOR 5th sampling campaign, Western Turkey July-August 2014
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Polychrome sgraffito from Ephesos
Start date and time
Sunday, 20 July 2014
End date and time
Sunday, 10 August 2014
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Ephesos

Turkey

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Miletus
Balat

Turkey

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Sardis

Turkey

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Pergamon
Bergama

Turkey

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Yona Waksman and Jacques Burlot will spend three weeks in Western Turkey working in four archaeological sites (Ephesos [OAI], Pergamon and Miletus [DAI], Sardis [Harvard University]). They expect to study, contextualize, record and sample several medieval ceramic productions and types, in collaboration with the excavations teams and especially with Joanita Vroom (Ephesos), Beate Arslan-Böhlendorf (Miletus) and Sarah Japp (Pergamon).

This sampling campaign continues previous provenance studies of medieval Western Anatolian pottery productions, and aims at completing an already rich corpus of analytical data. New aspects will be dealt with by Jacques Burlot in the framework of his PhD thesis. They concern the transmission and diffusion of ceramics production techniques, through the observation and analyses of the associations glaze/slip/body.

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