An investigation of production technologies of Byzantine glazed pottery from Corinth, Greece in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Volume 1 : Text

摘要

The century of archaeological excavations carried out at Corinth, Greece have resultedudin the accumulation of a collection of Byzantine glazed pottery unparalleled in theudAegean. The site is set apart from others as being one of only a few sites in theudByzantine world where glazed pottery manufacture has been confirmed. The glazedudpottery assemblage demonstrates a changing industry there. During the eleventhudcentury local production consisted of brown glazed, unslipped vessels in a conservativeudrange of forms that were in use alongside the imported, fine Constantinopolitan slipudpainted and polychrome White Wares. By the end of the eleventh century the localudindustry had established itself and these imports had ceased as a competitor. At this timeudlocal pottery production went through a major revolution in terms of decorativeudtechniques and vessel morphology. Instead of the earlier plain glazed products slips andudgreen and brown glazes were used in combination to produce a range of decorativeudstyles each lasting only a generation or so.udIn this thesis, the development of production technologies of Byzantine glazed potteryudmanufactured at Corinth between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries are examinedudusing a number of archaeometric techniques: pottery fabrics are examined usingudceramic petrography and inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy andudtheir corresponding glazes are investigated using electron probe microanalysis. Theuddata collected were used to establish patterns of pottery production and trade, and inudparticular explore developments in methods of glazing. A period of transition inudglazing technologies is identified, while certain technological practices are shown to beudmore sophisticated than has previously been acknowledged for the period in question.