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.

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).

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