Early Byzantine Chersoneses, Pontus and Eastern Mediterranean (on the materials Red nail ceramics) Cover Image

Ранневизантийский Херсонес, Понт и Восточное Средиземноморье (по материалам краснолаковой керамики)
Early Byzantine Chersoneses, Pontus and Eastern Mediterranean (on the materials Red nail ceramics)

Author(s): Sergey V. Ushakov
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Economic history, Ancient World
Published by: Нижневартовский государственный университет
Keywords: Chersoneses; red nail ceramics; Chersonese sigillata; Pontic late Roman group; Phocaean sigillata; African sigillata; amphorae; Pontus, Eastern Mediterranean

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the history and current state of the research study of the major groups of the early Byzantine red slip ceramics in Chersoneses. It is concluded that the market Chersonese and in everyday life dominated by dishes from the region of Pontus (Chersonese sigillata, then the Pontic late Roman group), and later became more and more dishes from Asia Minor (Phocaean sigillata). Import red slip dishes from North Africa (Carthage) in the early Byzantine period was small. Archaeological materials (amphorae and including) suggest that the Chersonese (Byzantine Cherson) in IV — the middle of VII century. economic and cultural plan was an important part of the Pontic-Eastern Mediterranean region.