POMEDOR member Edna Stern will present the Crusader-period pottery from Acre at a ceramic seminar organised by POMEDOR and the "Laboratoire de Céramologie" in Lyon.
A talk entitled "Méditerranée orientale et Égée entre dominations byzantine et franque: l’apport des analyses de céramiques en laboratoire. Exemples à Chypre et en Eubée" will be given by Y. Waksman and present some of the results of the POMEDOR project.
The Levantine Ceramics Project (www.levantineceramics.org) will hold a workshop at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. The focus of this workshop will be on petro-fabrics and their associated wares. We welcome presentations of material from sites in Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan. Our goals are to devise a consistent naming system for petro-fabrics, and to build up the LCP web site by adding more, and more detailed, data.
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.
The symposium “Networking through Fustat shards” gathers Egyptian and European curators and researchers involved in the study of Fustat pottery. It is co-organized by POMEDOR member Valentina VEZZOLI, with the participation of Yona WAKSMAN and of a new POMEDOR member Ahmad ALSHOKY - welcome!
The meeting is followed by the presentation of the new book "En Harmonie/Mutanāsiban. Art du monde islamique aux Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles", Racine.
A seminar focusing on archaeometric approaches to pottery studies in Ephesos, with a contribution by POMEDOR members Jacques Burlot and Yona Waksman on the Byzantine and Turkish periods.
Ephesos is one of the sites in Western Turkey where we are investigating the introduction of new pottery types, uses and technological features with the arrival of Turkish populations, at the Beylik and early Ottoman periods.
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
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.
Edna Stern and Yona Waksman, together with several colleagues excavating and studying ceramics in Israel, will be sampling ceramics for chemical, petrographic and residues analyses. Both Fatimid and Crusader, coastal and inland, urban and rural sites will be considered.
