Ancient and Preindustrial Ceramics from Cyprus

Sergios Menelaou is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology) at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, and a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus. He specialises in Aegean and Cypriot prehistoric pottery, with a focus on island connectivity and ceramic technologies. Holding degrees from the University of Cyprus and the University of Sheffield, his research combines stylistic and scientific approaches across sites spanning the Neolithic to the Ottoman period.Edyta Marzec is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and Associate Researcher at the N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”. She holds degrees from the University of Sheffield and Jagiellonian University and was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens. Her research focuses on Eastern Mediterranean archaeology in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, with particular emphasis on ceramic analysis.

• 0. Introduction to multidisciplinary approaches in Cypriot ceramic studies Part I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES 1. Defining ceramic traditions in ancient Cyprus through time: Interpretive frameworks and challenges in diachronic ceramic analysis 2. Metal skeuomorphism in prehistoric Cypriot pottery: A diachronic perspective 3. Child’s play or style? A re-examination of some ‘crude’ little pots from Kalopsidha, Cyprus 4.Ceramics from the sea: Pottery vessels recovered from shipwrecks off the island of Cyprus, their forms, functions, and past contents 5. From pencil to RTI: Methods of pottery documentation based on the oil lamps case study Part II. BRONZE AGE TO GEOMETRIC PERIODS 6. Environment, ecology and material engagement in the Bronze Age Kouris Valley 7. Tombs and Tumba: New perspectives on Late Bronze Age Greek ceramics from Enkomi at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm 8. A science-based analytical programme for the study of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Maritime Transport Containers from Cyprus 9. Regionalism in an age of globalisation: Southern Anatolia-Cyprus interactions through the Late Bronze Age pottery Part III. ARCHAIC TO ROMAN PERIODS 10. Beneath the surface: A compositional and technological study of Archaic and Classical pottery from Nea Paphos, Cyprus 11. Storing for the Amathus kings: An interdisciplinary insight into the pithoi from the Classical phase of the Amathus palace 12.Paphia? A discussion on an Early Hellenistic transport amphora type from Cyprus 13. Cypriot or not? New insights on the origin of Eastern Sigillata D and its Hellenistic predecessor Part IV. LATE ANTIQUITY TO MODERN PERIODS 14. Approaching the production of domestic ceramics in late antique Cyprus: The case of the pottery workshop in the Xeros valley 15. Ceramics of Ottoman Nicosia: A contribution to the study of ceramic production centres of Early Modern Cyprus 16. Contributions of ethnoarchaeology in Cyprus and the Philippines to the study of ancient pottery