Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the Mediterranean World over this period. Volume III discusses the Roman and Late Antique pottery from the Vrina Plain excavations. This detailed study of the ceramics follows the archaeological sequence recovered from the excavations in chronological order and provides a comprehensive and in depth review of the pottery, context by context, offering an important insight into the supply, as well as typology, of local and imported pottery available to the inhabitants of the Vrina Plain during this period. This is followed by a discussion on how the pottery trends found on the Vrina Plain relate to that of other sites in Butrint, both within the town (Triconch Palace; the Forum) and outside (Vrina Plain training school villa excavations; the villa of Diaporit). The volume also presents an overview of some of the principal typological developments found across Butrint so as to allow the reader to place the Vrina finds in context, including a discussion of a number of key contexts from the Forum, as well as the findings from thin-section petrology of some of the ceramics.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Presentation methodology
  • Quantification
  • General comments on wares – fabrics and forms
• 2. Late Republic to Early Imperial period
  • Early occupation
  • Phase 1: Mid-1st century AD
  • Phase 2: 2nd century to early 3rd century
• 3. Domus construction (and use)
  • Phase 3a: Early decades of mid-3rd century
  • Early/(mid-) 3rd-century material redeposited in later phases
  • Redeposited early (rather than mid-) 3rd-century contexts
  • Phase 3b: Early to mid-4th century
  • 4th-century material intrusive in mid-3rd-century Phase 3a deposits
  • 4th- to early 5th-century material redeposited in later phases
• 4. Late 4th to late 5th century AD
  • Phase 4: Late 4th century
  • Phase 5: Early 5th-century reoccupation
  • Late 4th- to early 5th-century material redeposited in later phases
  • Phase 6: Mid- to late 5th century
• 5. The 6th century AD
  • Phase 7: Early 6th century
  • Phase 8: Mid-6th century
  • Phase 9: Late 6th century
• 6. 5th- and mid- to late 6th-century material in later phases
  • Mid- to late 6th-century contexts of interest from Phases 10, 14 and 16
  • 5th-century material redeposited in MED phases
• 7. The aqueduct (Area E)
  • Aqueduct construction
  • Aqueduct collapse
• 8. The Temple Mausoleum
  • Phase 3: Mid-3rd to mid-4th century
  • Phases 7 and 8: Early to mid-6th century
  • Redeposited 3rd–5th-century material in Phases 9 to 16
• 9. The Monument area
  • Phase 1: Mid-1st century AD
  • Phase 2: 2nd century AD
  • Phase 3: Mid-3rd to mid-4th century AD
  • Phase 5: Late 4th to early 5th century AD
  • Phase 6: Mid-5th century
  • Phases 7 to 8: Later 5th to early 6th century AD
  • Phases 9 to 16: Mid- to late 6th century AD onwards
  • Late 1st- to mid-3rd-century material redeposited in later phases
  • Other interesting contexts to the west of the Monument complex
• 10. Area G
  • Description of site and sequence
  • The contexts
  • 2nd-century material prior to 4th-century phase
  • 4th-century ceramic production waste
  • Medieval phase
• 11. Area J: Bathhouse
  • The contexts
• 12. Conclusions: pottery trends on the Vrina Plain and at Butrint
  • Early Imperial to mid-Roman period: Late 1st century BC to mid-3rd century AD
  • Late Roman: 4th to 7th centuries
• Appendix A The pottery typology of Butrint – local, regional and imported forms: general comments
  • Regional fine wares
  • Cooking vessels
  • Other forms, local and imported
  • Amphorae
• Appendix B Contexts from Forum I
  • 1. Context 49
  • 2. Context 530
  • 3. Context 98
• Appendix C Petrographic analysis of pottery from Butrint and environs
  • Leandro Fantuzzi
  • 1. Regional-Epirote cooking wares and plain wares: chert fabrics
  • 2. Cooking ware/plain ware fabrics with metamorphic contribution: regional or imported products?
  • 3. Imported cooking ware fabrics
  • 4. Amphorae with fine buff fabrics
  • 5. ‘Samian’ and ‘Ikarian’ amphora fabrics
  • 6. Other imported amphora fabrics
  • 7. Fine ware fabrics
• Bibliography
• Plate section