Ceramic patchwork in Hellenistic to Byzantine Phoenicia: regionalization and specialization of vessel production

Abstract

An analysis of pottery production in ancient Phoenicia reveals not only the land division into city-states in Hellenistic times, but also the blending in individual periods of the multifarious cultural influences reaching in from the western coast of Asia Minor, the Aegean, North African coast and Italy. The native Phoenician tradition clearly loses in significance with the arrival of the Romans in the East.

Keywords

• Phoenicia
• Jiyeh/Porphyreon
• Hellenistic/Roman/Byzantine pottery
• pottery workshops/production
• amphorae
• kitchen vessels