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The Brittle Ware from the Amuq Valley Regional Project Survey: A Comparison of the Workshops Supplying the Antioch Region and Apamea on the Orontes

par Vokaer, Agnès
Référence American Schools of Oriental Studies (ASOR), Annual Meeting (20-23 décembre 2013: Baltimore)
Publication Non publié, 2013-12-20

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This paper will present some observations on the Brittle Ware from the survey of the Amuq Valley Regional Project, in comparison with northern Syria and most specifically with Apamea.The name Brittle Ware usually refers to the cooking ware found in Syria, from the Roman to the Early Islamic period. It represents a standardised production, from a typological and a technological point of view. From the 2nd to the 10th c. A.D., forms evolved but always consisted of a complementary kitchen set, composed of open and closed cooking vessels and a jug.Although no direct evidence for production such as kiln structures has ever been found, the combination of the typology and the fabric studies, as well as the distribution of the different fabrics through time and space, enabled one to identify several workshops and to suggest hypotheses about their provenance. Two main workshops appear to be active in northern Syria from the Roman period onwards. One could be located in the area around Apamea (Workshop 4) while the second one seems to be closer to Antioch (Workshop 1). The study of the Brittle Ware from a selection of sites surveyed in the Amuq region provided evidence for a wide repertoire of Brittle Ware forms stretching from the 1rst c. to the 10th c. A.D. The fabric analyses indicated the predominance in the Amuq plain of Workshop 1, as well as the absence of Apamea Workshop 4, standing as a further argument for locating Workshop 1 in the Antioch region.