The author of this paper is making an extended discussion of production and export of Cretan wine in the Roman period, based on the published amphora evidence from urban sites, with some further reflections on the consumption of this product mainly based on written sources.

While this is by far one the best reflections on the amphora=content dilemma that haunts all studies on ancient trade, it seems a shortcoming not to consider all studies on residue analysis that can provide direct and unbiased data on amphora content.

The author of this paper is making an extended discussion of production and export of Cretan wine in the Roman period, based on the published amphora evidence from urban sites, with some further reflections on the consumption of this product mainly based on written sources.

While this is by far one the best reflections on the amphora=content dilemma that haunts all studies on ancient trade, it seems a shortcoming not to consider all studies on residue analysis that can provide direct and unbiased data on amphora content.

Attestation of “ceramica vacuolare” or “vacuolata” that is common in Central and Eastern Liguria and Lunigiana in the late Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval period.

This website is a very comprehensive resource about medieval pottery in Italy. It is rather difficult to navigate properly since part of the original navigation was implemented with some scripting method that is now obsolete, but all pages should be reachable by means of normal href links. It was updated until circa 2004.

There are now established methods for separating sheep and goat http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1997.0204 but it's certainly true that most published data will not take these methods into account since they are relatively recent.

I think it was intended as "from Çandarli to PRS”, since Çandarli and ESC (Eastern Sigillata C) are basically the same thing.

Bonifay proposed a distinction of 3 variants for Hayes 104A, of which only A2 is dated

deuxième quart - milieu du VIe s.

whereas variant A3 is dated at the end of the 6th and early 7th, more in line with this context.

Of course there have been other workshops in the next years. This website stopped being updated in 2012 and is kept for its reference value.