This thematic volume comprises 30 articles by 44 specialists and is the first collection solely d... more This thematic volume comprises 30 articles by 44 specialists and is the first collection solely dedicated to the study of Amphoras of the Phoenician-Punic world. The articles take their lead from presentations at a conference held in Ghent in December 2016. It is a welcome update to the terrain covered more than a quarter-century ago by the highly influential monograph of Juan Ramon, Las ánforas fenicio–púnicas del Mediterráneo Central y Occidental (Col·lecció Instrumenta 2), Barcelona: 1995. The link between trade and the Phoenician and Punic World is so pronounced that these subjects have often been treated synonymously. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that “the Amphora, the key element of the trade in foodstuffs during Antiquity, has been considered the guide fossil for Phoenician and Punic trade”. Geographically, the present contributions cover the space from the Levantine coast to the Atlantic shores of the Iberian Peninsula. Chronologically, they range from the earliest moments of the Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean during the ninth century BCE until the centuries following the destruction of Carthage and its empire. Thematically, the volume deals with issues of production, typology, distribution, contents, and even socio-economical aspects. As such, it may be considered as a true state of the art on the Amphoras of the Phoenician and Punic World.
... Classification, B3. Publishing Year, 2004. Number of Pages, 110. Publisher, Universiteit van ... more ... Classification, B3. Publishing Year, 2004. Number of Pages, 110. Publisher, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Place of Publication, Amsterdam, Nederland. Editor, W Cornelissen; Roald Docter [801001536192] - Ghent University Roald.Docter@UGent.be; H Koens; V Stissi; G Tolud. ...
ABSTRACT This poster presentation offers results of a joint survey project in the northwest of Ma... more ABSTRACT This poster presentation offers results of a joint survey project in the northwest of Malta with finds ranging from the Prehistoric till the Early Modern period. The project is a trilateral endeavour of the Department of Archaeology of Ghent University (Belgium), the University of Malta and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage (Malta) since 2008. It is an intensive systematic field-walking survey in a kilometre-wide transect, beyond the main Phoenician and Punic urban centre on the island, the present-day Rabat/Mdina. It is interdisciplinary, involving not only archaeologists, but also ceramic specialists, geophysicists, geomatic specialists / topographers and geomorphologists. Three permanently inhabited sites were encountered dating to at least the late 6th or early 5th century BCE, with a clearer attestation in the Hellenistic/Roman period and Late Antique periods. The resulting reconstructed settlement pattern of the Phoenician/Punic period suggests a managed landscape that seems to be a good reflexion of what is happening in North Africa and elsewhere in the central and western Mediterranean. At least from the Roman period on, these sites seem to have specialised on the production of olive oil. The poster presentation focuses upon the major site in the survey transect, the Ġebel Għawżara site.
Anhand von ausgesuchten Fallbeispielen wird im folgenden Beitrag eine kurze Wirtschaftsgeschichte... more Anhand von ausgesuchten Fallbeispielen wird im folgenden Beitrag eine kurze Wirtschaftsgeschichte des punischen Karthagos skizziert. Landwirtschaft, Metallindustrie, Handwerk und Handel bilden dabei die konstituierenden Bestandteile. Die Rolle innovativer Spitzentechnologie für das wirtschaftliche Gelingen der Karthagischen Gesellschaft wird dabei hervorgehoben.
Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. West Slope Ware. Please use this identifier to cite or link... more Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. West Slope Ware. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 915323. Record Type, misc. Author, Roald Docter [801001536192] - Ghent University Roald.Docter@UGent.be. Title, West Slope Ware. ...
In the Thorikos cleaning campaign of 2007, a modest and worn lekythos turned up in House 1. Almos... more In the Thorikos cleaning campaign of 2007, a modest and worn lekythos turned up in House 1. Almost certainly, the lekythos is sescondary, as the Haimonian lekythos predates the house by several decades. The black-figure image depicts a goddess mounting a chariot, a stock-scene of lekythoi in this period (470-460 BCE). Mostly associated with graves, the lekythos may well have been used domestically, although this theme is not attested in a domestic context.
This thematic volume comprises 30 articles by 44 specialists and is the first collection solely d... more This thematic volume comprises 30 articles by 44 specialists and is the first collection solely dedicated to the study of Amphoras of the Phoenician-Punic world. The articles take their lead from presentations at a conference held in Ghent in December 2016. It is a welcome update to the terrain covered more than a quarter-century ago by the highly influential monograph of Juan Ramon, Las ánforas fenicio–púnicas del Mediterráneo Central y Occidental (Col·lecció Instrumenta 2), Barcelona: 1995. The link between trade and the Phoenician and Punic World is so pronounced that these subjects have often been treated synonymously. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that “the Amphora, the key element of the trade in foodstuffs during Antiquity, has been considered the guide fossil for Phoenician and Punic trade”. Geographically, the present contributions cover the space from the Levantine coast to the Atlantic shores of the Iberian Peninsula. Chronologically, they range from the earliest moments of the Phoenician presence in the western Mediterranean during the ninth century BCE until the centuries following the destruction of Carthage and its empire. Thematically, the volume deals with issues of production, typology, distribution, contents, and even socio-economical aspects. As such, it may be considered as a true state of the art on the Amphoras of the Phoenician and Punic World.
... Classification, B3. Publishing Year, 2004. Number of Pages, 110. Publisher, Universiteit van ... more ... Classification, B3. Publishing Year, 2004. Number of Pages, 110. Publisher, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Place of Publication, Amsterdam, Nederland. Editor, W Cornelissen; Roald Docter [801001536192] - Ghent University Roald.Docter@UGent.be; H Koens; V Stissi; G Tolud. ...
ABSTRACT This poster presentation offers results of a joint survey project in the northwest of Ma... more ABSTRACT This poster presentation offers results of a joint survey project in the northwest of Malta with finds ranging from the Prehistoric till the Early Modern period. The project is a trilateral endeavour of the Department of Archaeology of Ghent University (Belgium), the University of Malta and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage (Malta) since 2008. It is an intensive systematic field-walking survey in a kilometre-wide transect, beyond the main Phoenician and Punic urban centre on the island, the present-day Rabat/Mdina. It is interdisciplinary, involving not only archaeologists, but also ceramic specialists, geophysicists, geomatic specialists / topographers and geomorphologists. Three permanently inhabited sites were encountered dating to at least the late 6th or early 5th century BCE, with a clearer attestation in the Hellenistic/Roman period and Late Antique periods. The resulting reconstructed settlement pattern of the Phoenician/Punic period suggests a managed landscape that seems to be a good reflexion of what is happening in North Africa and elsewhere in the central and western Mediterranean. At least from the Roman period on, these sites seem to have specialised on the production of olive oil. The poster presentation focuses upon the major site in the survey transect, the Ġebel Għawżara site.
Anhand von ausgesuchten Fallbeispielen wird im folgenden Beitrag eine kurze Wirtschaftsgeschichte... more Anhand von ausgesuchten Fallbeispielen wird im folgenden Beitrag eine kurze Wirtschaftsgeschichte des punischen Karthagos skizziert. Landwirtschaft, Metallindustrie, Handwerk und Handel bilden dabei die konstituierenden Bestandteile. Die Rolle innovativer Spitzentechnologie für das wirtschaftliche Gelingen der Karthagischen Gesellschaft wird dabei hervorgehoben.
Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. West Slope Ware. Please use this identifier to cite or link... more Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. West Slope Ware. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 915323. Record Type, misc. Author, Roald Docter [801001536192] - Ghent University Roald.Docter@UGent.be. Title, West Slope Ware. ...
In the Thorikos cleaning campaign of 2007, a modest and worn lekythos turned up in House 1. Almos... more In the Thorikos cleaning campaign of 2007, a modest and worn lekythos turned up in House 1. Almost certainly, the lekythos is sescondary, as the Haimonian lekythos predates the house by several decades. The black-figure image depicts a goddess mounting a chariot, a stock-scene of lekythoi in this period (470-460 BCE). Mostly associated with graves, the lekythos may well have been used domestically, although this theme is not attested in a domestic context.
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Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Mushroom-lipped jug. Please use this identifier to cite or ... more Ga onmiddellijk naar paginanavigatie. Mushroom-lipped jug. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 444382. Record Type, misc. Author, Roald Docter [801001536192] - Ghent University Roald.Docter@UGent.be. Title, Mushroom-lipped jug ...
ABSTRACT The aim of the current study is to examine the role played by Thorikos within the Laurio... more ABSTRACT The aim of the current study is to examine the role played by Thorikos within the Laurion silver mining area from the perspective of metallurgical activities during the Classical and Early Hellenistic periods. Because water availability directly determines the production output of metallurgical workshops, a hydrological analysis of the area is an ideal tool to enhance our understanding of this issue. On a large scale, hydrological modelling is accomplished through the analysis of runoff water accumulation; on a small scale, a water balance model is used to simulate the operated water supply system for industrial purposes, more specifically the purifying of silver ores in washeries. Also, the impact of cistern location on its effectiveness and usability for silver processing is explored. The two focus areas are the Velatouri Hill, where the site of Thorikos is located, and the Soureza Valley, which is situated in the centre of the Laurion. In each area a number of ore washing workshops were chosen to study in more detail. Through the region-wide hydrological and archaeological analysis, it could be shown that the Thorikos workshops contrast sharply with the Soureza ones. The latter relied on ephemeral streams which were consolidated and tapped by large cisterns, thus creating a water stock that was more than sufficient to bridge the dry periods of the year. The former relied on the harvesting of limited runoff during heavy rain events, which in many cases did not provide a sufficient water stock. Furthermore, water supply strategies in Thorikos were not as well-considered in comparison to Soureza. This leads to the conclusion that Thorikos could have never been the large scale processing site Soureza was and, when combined with the small-scale analysis, the site must have had a distinctively more ad hoc character.
Excavations of the Phoenician and Punic layers at the site of Bir Massouda in Carthage have provi... more Excavations of the Phoenician and Punic layers at the site of Bir Massouda in Carthage have provided evidence for ferrous metallurgical activity spanning several centuries. Archaeometallurgical analyses of slagged tuy eres, slag, and alloys using optical microscopy, portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF), and variable pressure scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (VPSEM-EDS) show that Carthaginian smiths were conducting primary smithing and forging of wrought iron and steel. Although the majority of slag specimens are remnant from ferrous production, a few select finds are from bronze recycling. The corpus represents the earliest known ferrous metallurgy in North Africa. As a Phoenician colony then later as an independent imperial metropolis, Carthage specialized in centrally organized ferrous technology at the fringes of the settlement in areas such as Bir Massouda and the Byrsa Hill from before 700 to 146 BC.
Archaeological excavation is a destructive process, making accurate, fast and efficient 3D docume... more Archaeological excavation is a destructive process, making accurate, fast and efficient 3D documentation of information essential. With this in mind, our research uses an integrated workflow of topographic measurements and image-based 3D modelling to generate highly accurate reconstructions of archaeological features at the site of Thorikos, Greece. Topographic ground control points and images are acquired using a total station and consumer digital camera respectively, and processed in a highly automated workflow using Structure from Motion and Multiview Stereo reconstruction software. These models were generated on a daily basis in order to map the on-going of a field campaign at this archaeological site in 2012. Moreover, a management system is presented as a consultation and analysis application, enabling the interaction with the 3D models, accompanied with attribute data and metadata. For the efficiency of the management system it was essential to integrate the 3D models in a Harris matrix. This matrix functions as an intermediate between a graphical user interface and the database system. Additionally, two applications of these 3D models are presented, focussing on capacity calculations and in situ mapping (orthophoto mapping) of stone wall remains. The presented management system, the linking of 3D models with excavation data, and the use of 3D models as a scientific tool demonstrate the huge potential of 3D data for archaeological research.
Poster on the activities of the Belgian committee of the 'Corpus of Phoenician and Punic Antiquit... more Poster on the activities of the Belgian committee of the 'Corpus of Phoenician and Punic Antiquities' (International Union of Academies).
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