The Fayoum Survey Project: The Themistou Meris: Volume B: The Ceramological Survey (Collectanea Hellenistica)

This volume accompanies Volume A which presents the archaeological survey of the sites of the Themistou Meris (north-western Fayoum), by giving a thorough introduction to the pottery found during the survey. The great doyen of the pottery of the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, the late Donald M. Bailey, did not live to see his volume in print. His legacy is an exemplary study of forms and materials of the different kinds of ceramic vessels, from amphorae to cooking-pots and from coarse kitchen ware to fine table ware. The book is rounded up by two short essays, which add up-to-date information on the pottery found in the Themistou Meris as well as in other districts of the Fayoum. Cover 1 Title 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 8 INTRODUCTION 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14 1 THE MERIS (= DISTRICT) OF THEMISTOS SUMMARY OF SITES1 16 PTOLEMAIC IMPORTED BLACK GLAZE WARE 28 PTOLEMAIC FINEWARES: EGYPTIAN BLACK AND RED GLAZED WARES (EBGW AND ERGW; OR FRSW WARE) 30 IMPORTED EASTERN SIGILLATA A WARE AND AFRICAN RED SLIP WARE 42 EGYPTIAN RED SLIP A WARE (ERSA), ASWAN FINE WARE (AFW), ASWAN RED SLIP WARE (ARSW), ETC. AND OTHER ASWAN WARES 44 EGYPTIAN RED SLIP B WARE (ERSB), FAYUMIC RED SLIP WARE (FRSW) AND FAYUMIC FINEWARE (FFW) 48 EGYPTIAN PLAINWARE CUPS, BOWLS (AND SOME CASSEROLES) 56 COOKING-POTS AND CASSEROLES 64 COARSEWARE JARS 78 LEKYTHOI, FLAGONS AND JUGS, ASKOI, OMPHOKERAI AND LIDS, JUGLETS AND LIDS 88 MISCELLANEOUS AND SPECIALISED VESSELS 94 VITREOUS-GLAZED WARES 98 IMPORTED AMPHORAE AND EGYPTIAN VERSIONS 102 EGYPTIAN TYPE A AMPHORAE (EMPEREUR AE 3) 114 EGYPTIAN LATE ROMAN AMPHORAE 7 (HERMOPOLIS MAGNA TYPE B) 126 LAMPS 130 GLASS 134 FAIENCE VESSELS 142 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS 152 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS 158 GRENFELL AND HUNT AT HARIT AND KASR EL-BANAT: THE CERAMIC MATERIAL1 314 THE FAYUM SURVEY PROJECT 1999-2006: THE CERAMIC MATERIAL FROM WATFA/PHILOTERIS IN THE PUBLICATION OF DONALD M. BAILEY 334 The Themistou Meris was the north-western administrative district of the Oasis Fayoum in the Graeco-Roman Period, home of Greek speaking settlers and indigenous Egyptians, who lived side by side in villages, many of them newly founded by the first Ptolemaic Kings in the 3rd century BC.The book is the result of an archaeological survey, and small excavations carried out between 2000 and 2016 in that part of the Fayoum; it offers descriptions of archaeological remains, many of them now under threat from land reclamation, gives information about the history and exact location of single sites, and values the excavations, which were undertaken there in the beginning of the 20th century, often with the sole aim of finding papyri, while archaeological features were neglected. The book seeks to combine the written and the archaeological evidence, offering new proposals for identifying ancient names with ancient sites, and gives a panorama of the multicultural society of the ancient Fayoum