Preliminary archaeological and archaeometric characterisation of Roman pottery workshops on the Tarhuna plateau (Libya)
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2023
- handle: 10670/1.pgbf42
- halshs: halshs-04376922
- doi: 10.19272/202310601002
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Muftah Alhaddad et al., « Preliminary archaeological and archaeometric characterisation of Roman pottery workshops on the Tarhuna plateau (Libya) », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10.19272/202310601002
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Surveys carried out since 1995 by Muftah Alhaddad on the Tarhuna Plateau have made it possible to study the land occupation in this region during the Roman period and to identify a large number of remains of agricultural estates with their oil and wine presses and 17 amphora workshops linked to them. Continuing the work begun in 2007-2008 by John Dore†, the aim of this study is to characterise the petrography of thirteen of these workshops through thin-section analyses carried out by Claudio Capelli. This characterisation of the fabrics is combined with a provisional revision of the typological data, based on the sherds analysed, pending a return to the field and documentation collected in the future. The results of this study show that the workshops on the Tarhuna plateau produced all types of Tripolitanian amphorae (types I, II and III), as well as Cooking wares (in particular the CT3 category identified at Leptis Magna) and Plain wares, from the 1st to the 4th century AD.