This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project “People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean” funded by the French National Research Agency. POMEDOR focused on changes in transitional periods, such as the Crusades and the Turkish conquests, as viewed through archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery.
A lively 2018 edition...ywaksman
A lively 2018 edition...
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The 2018 national training program attendees, holding replicas of Byzantine potteries
in front of the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" in Lyon (photo Y. Rezkallah)
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of the national training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics: Byzantine World and Medieval Middle-East" gathered in Lyon 19 participants of Syrian, Iranian, Algerian, Italian and ... French nationality, coming from all over France, as well as from Beyrouth and Florence.
The training included both methodological approaches to ceramics studies, focusing especially on analytical ones (fabrics, petrographic and chemical analysis for provenance and technology studies, residues analysis for studies of contents and uses...), and courses on Byzantine and Eastern Mediterranean medieval pottery, including hands-on on sherds and observations under the binocular, supplemented with replicas and 3D models.
Food experience in a typical Lyonnese restaurant was not forgotten! (photo Y. Rezkallah)
The training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics", labeled "National Training Action" (Action Nationale de Formation) by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), will take place in Lyon on 28 May - 1rst June 2018. It proposes researchers and students both a methodological overview and an introduction to Byzantine and other medieval Eastern Mediterranean pottery. Practical training is proposed with the handling of sherds and the observation of fabrics. Archaeological sherds are complemented by replicas and 3D models of "best examples" from reference collections (Athens Agora, Museum and Ephorates of Thebes and Chalcis, etc.).
The course presents the latest results of research carried out in the framework of the POMEDOR project.
The training course "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics" took place in Lyon this year on 29 May - 2 June 2017 and focused on pottery of the Byzantine world and the medieval Middle-East. It proposed some 20 researchers and students, from all over France and beyond, both a methodological overview, and a theoretical and practical introduction to Byzantine and other medieval Eastern Mediterranean pottery through the handling of sherds and the observation of fabrics. Archaeological sherds were complemented by replicas and 3D models of "best examples" from reference collections (Athens Agora, Museum and Ephorates of Thebes and Chalcis, etc.).
The course presented the latest results of research carried out in the framework of the POMEDOR project.
The workshop was labeled "National Training Action" (Action Nationale de Formation) by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Looking at sherds under the binocular Actual sherds and replicas, here a copy of a MBP champlevé in the Thebes museum
(photo J. Burlot)
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:
Port Saint-Symeon Wares;
“MBP” (main "Middle Byzantine Production": Green and Brown Painted Ware, Fine Sgraffito Ware, Champlevé Ware);
Cyprus (Lapithos) Ware;
Thessaloniki or Istanbul Sirkeci Ware, with a bird design;
Late Byzantine bowls of Western Anatolian and Northern Aegean types;
"Seljuk" Wares (with Polychrome Sgraffito or Champlevé decoration on the inside, and Slip Painted decoration on the outside);
"Miletus Ware".
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
POMEDOR Conference publication and podcastsywaksman
POMEDOR Conference publication and podcasts
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A recent publication in the series "Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient", edited by Zoi Tsirtsoni
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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".
Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011.
J. Vroom (ed.), Brepols 2015.
The Origins of the Sugarcane Industry and the Transmission of Ancient Greek and Medieval Arab Science and Technology from the Near East to Europeywaksman
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Start date and time
Saturday, 23 May 2015
A one day international conference organized by Dr Konstantinos D. Politis (European Social Fund Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Athens), convening scholars from diverse fields to present and discuss the archaeology of the Sugarcane Industry as excavated in various sites in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean islands.
The program includes an oral communication and a poster proposed by POMEDOR member E.J. Stern
PROGRAMME
09:00 Registration and coffee/tea
Food, Spirits & Gastronomic Traditions in the Eastern Mediterraneanadmin_1
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Start date and time
Tuesday, 21 October 2014 - 7:00pm
A new series of lectures, coordinated by Evangelia Balta, will take place from October 2014 to May 2015 at the Sismanoglio Megaro in Istanbul.
All lectures will be uploaded to the Bodossaki Foundation’s digital platform
BLOD (Bodossaki Lectures on Demand) (www.blod.gr).
Program-questionnaire for a historical surveyywaksman
Program-questionnaire for a historical survey
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Byzantines dining with Foreigners from East and West. Wall painting (1312), Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece.
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Philippe Trélat posted on the POMEDOR members website (see "Network") a program-questionnaire for a historical survey, elaborated with the help of Nicolas Trépanier, Ilias Anagnostakis and Yona Waksman. The following areas of research are proposed:
1. The choice of cultivated plant species and livestock and hunted animals
2. Places of distribution
3. Methods of food preservation
4. Cultural values of different cooking methods
5. Changing dietary boundaries between communities
