Lars Heinze
I wrote my PhD on late Classical and early Hellenistic pottery from Priene (Ionia) and many of the topics connected to this material are still haunting me. Afterwards, I shifted towards pottery from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Within the framework of the CeramEgypt project, I was studying pottery from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt to assess the differences in the regional geo-chemical fingerprints. This is largely done via p-XRF, but thin-section petrography has also been applied on a limited scale.
Other research interests:
- systematical approaches to pottery and small finds
- depositional formations of pottery fillings
- trade relations according to pottery imports
- cooking wares and mortaria from south-western Asia Minor (Classical to early Imperial Roman period)
- the production of textiles in Priene: the archaeological remains
- 5th/4th century BCE pottery from Siciliy ('Manfria Farm-'project)
older research topics:
- functional alterations of sanctuaries in Asia Minor in Hellenistic times ("Poliskultur"-project, D. Steuernagel)
- the pottery from the Gymnasium excavations at Priene ("Die Gymnasien von Priene", U. Mania)
Other research interests:
- systematical approaches to pottery and small finds
- depositional formations of pottery fillings
- trade relations according to pottery imports
- cooking wares and mortaria from south-western Asia Minor (Classical to early Imperial Roman period)
- the production of textiles in Priene: the archaeological remains
- 5th/4th century BCE pottery from Siciliy ('Manfria Farm-'project)
older research topics:
- functional alterations of sanctuaries in Asia Minor in Hellenistic times ("Poliskultur"-project, D. Steuernagel)
- the pottery from the Gymnasium excavations at Priene ("Die Gymnasien von Priene", U. Mania)
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Most previous studies on Attic black gloss technology focused on productions from Greece, especially Athens. However, the black gloss technique constitutes the most widespread decoration practice across the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on both Attic and Atticising black gloss productions from sites in Sicily and Asia Minor, our work aims to shed new light on the technology of this decoration and its transmission throughout the Mediterranean during the fourth century BCE. Additionally, to investigate the technological relationship between black and the less common intentional red gloss decorations, a selection of bichrome black-and-red and red gloss vessels were included in this study. For this purpose, we applied an integrated analytical approach, aiming to characterise both the chemistry and the mineralogy of archaeological black and red gloss decorations. This approach includes ceramic petrography, pXRF, µ-XRD 2 , and SEM-EDS. Specimens from the fourth century BCE from Manfria (chora of Gela), Iasos (Caria), and Priene (Ionia) were analysed. These assemblages reflect various production groups identified by the chemical and petrographic analyses of the ceramic bodies. The µ-XRD 2 and SEM-EDS measurements of the gloss show a certain degree of mineralogical and chemical variability that does not necessarily correlate with the recognised production groups but, rather, reflects different technological practices. Despite this variability, the results suggest that the various gloss productions were produced with a very similar technological process and offer new insights into the mechanisms through which the black gloss technique diffused throughout the Mediterranean.
The text focuses on a chronological analysis of the ceramic materials unearthed in different areas of the complex, in order to verify the traditional view of a long-term general collapse in Greek Sicily after the destruction inflicted on the city of Gela at the end of the 5th century BC.
Published in: J.-A. Dickmann - A. Heinemann, Vom Trinken und Bechern. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Freiburg, 26. April - 28. Juni 2015 (Freiburg 2015).
paper seeks to rebalance the Attic-dominated impression that is created through the pottery of the fourth
century BC published to date from Asia Minor. Two case studies of regional types of pottery shapes from
late Classical and early Hellenistic Priene will be presented here: one a hemispherical, handleless type of
drinking bowl rarely found outside of Priene, the other a distinct type of lopas that is quite common in
southern Ionia and probably Caria. Persistent regional pottery traditions like these demonstrate that, even
though a certain ‘pottery koine’ has been established for most fine and coarse wares throughout the eastern
Mediterranean during the Classical period, a substantial regional character managed to prevail in Priene
well into the third century BC as part of what might be considered as an aspect of ‘cultural identity’.
Talks by Lars Heinze
Most previous studies on Attic black gloss technology focused on productions from Greece, especially Athens. However, the black gloss technique constitutes the most widespread decoration practice across the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on both Attic and Atticising black gloss productions from sites in Sicily and Asia Minor, our work aims to shed new light on the technology of this decoration and its transmission throughout the Mediterranean during the fourth century BCE. Additionally, to investigate the technological relationship between black and the less common intentional red gloss decorations, a selection of bichrome black-and-red and red gloss vessels were included in this study. For this purpose, we applied an integrated analytical approach, aiming to characterise both the chemistry and the mineralogy of archaeological black and red gloss decorations. This approach includes ceramic petrography, pXRF, µ-XRD 2 , and SEM-EDS. Specimens from the fourth century BCE from Manfria (chora of Gela), Iasos (Caria), and Priene (Ionia) were analysed. These assemblages reflect various production groups identified by the chemical and petrographic analyses of the ceramic bodies. The µ-XRD 2 and SEM-EDS measurements of the gloss show a certain degree of mineralogical and chemical variability that does not necessarily correlate with the recognised production groups but, rather, reflects different technological practices. Despite this variability, the results suggest that the various gloss productions were produced with a very similar technological process and offer new insights into the mechanisms through which the black gloss technique diffused throughout the Mediterranean.
The text focuses on a chronological analysis of the ceramic materials unearthed in different areas of the complex, in order to verify the traditional view of a long-term general collapse in Greek Sicily after the destruction inflicted on the city of Gela at the end of the 5th century BC.
Published in: J.-A. Dickmann - A. Heinemann, Vom Trinken und Bechern. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Freiburg, 26. April - 28. Juni 2015 (Freiburg 2015).
paper seeks to rebalance the Attic-dominated impression that is created through the pottery of the fourth
century BC published to date from Asia Minor. Two case studies of regional types of pottery shapes from
late Classical and early Hellenistic Priene will be presented here: one a hemispherical, handleless type of
drinking bowl rarely found outside of Priene, the other a distinct type of lopas that is quite common in
southern Ionia and probably Caria. Persistent regional pottery traditions like these demonstrate that, even
though a certain ‘pottery koine’ has been established for most fine and coarse wares throughout the eastern
Mediterranean during the Classical period, a substantial regional character managed to prevail in Priene
well into the third century BC as part of what might be considered as an aspect of ‘cultural identity’.
This poster is focussing on Priene, a small polis in southern Ionia. We aim to show the significance that imported cooking wares had throughout the period of the city’s existence. Furthermore, we intend to highlight the ambivalence that exists in the material record when close attention is paid to the imported and locally/regionally produced groups of cooking pots. Two major chronological horizons are considered: the late Classical and early Hellenistic period, and the late Hellenistic and early Roman Imperial period. An integrated plan of petrographic and chemical analysis is applied to a number of samples representing the principal fabric groups that were used for cooking pottery in the aforementioned periods. By comparing this data with that of previously published analyses from western Asia Minor, we hope to give a new impetus for the study of cooking pots in western Asia Minor. "
The pottery associated with this denotation is highly significant and easy to point out even in small fragments. The fabric is of a light red colour with a tendency to be purple in its core. The clay is fine in structure, sometime showing fine white inclusion. The extremely hard fired ceramic body is characterised through its thin-walled manufacture, that apart from the feet often ranges between 1 – 2 mm. The given name derives from the fact, that the vessels were decorated with multiple horizontal dark bands, sometimes dense, but regularly with the tendency to be translucent. Until now vessels with this distinct fabric found in Priene are strictly limited to deep or shallow handleless drinking bowls.
While the DBW is clearly not produced in Priene itself, they are normaly accompanied by local or regional ‘imitations’. These are easy do differ from the imports, since the clay never has the typical reddish to purple colour, also the decorative scheme is never applied in a way similiar to the original DBW. The origin of this fabric is still unknown, but the southwest of Asia Minor or the islands offshore might be taken into consideration, since some of the rare comparisons for this ware are to be found in Knidos or on Rhodos."