Roman Pottery in the Near East : Local Production and Regional Trade : Proceedings of the round table held in Berlin, 19-20 February 2010 / by Bettina Fischer-Genz, Yvonne Gerber, Hanna Hamel.

Roman Pottery in the Near East : Local Production and Regional Trade -- Pottery of the ' Land of Carchemisch ' project and the Northern Euphrates / Paul Newson -- The local pottery from Ras el Bassit / Phil Mills -- A 3rd to 4th century AD pottery assemblage from Apamea and some further considerations on pottery Production and Distribution in Roman Syria / Agnés Vokaer -- The Homs Survey (Syria) : Contrasting Levantine trends in the regional supply of fine wares, amphorae and kitchen wares (Hellenistic to early Arab periods) / Paul Reynolds -- Roman pottery in Baalbek - Heliopolis / Hanna Hamel -- Local pottery traditions in the rural settlements around Baalbek-Heliopolis, Lebanon / Bettina Fischer-Genz -- Economy and cultural transfers : evidence of Hellenization and early Romanization in Beirut / Dina Frangié-Joly -- Pottery production in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Jiyeh-ancient Porphyreon (Lebanon) / Urszula Wicenciak -- Pithos-type vessels from the excavations in Chhim, Lebanon / Zofia Kowarska and Szymon Lenarczyk -- The current state of the WD-XRF database of Hellenistic and Roman Fine Wares in the Levant / Gerwulf Schneider and Malgorzata Daszkiewicz -- 'Kefar Hananya Ware' made in Yodefat. Pottery production at Yodefat in the first century AD / Mordechai Aviam -- Provenance study of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine kitchen wares from the Theatre-Temple Area of Umm Qais-Gadara, Jordan / Malgorzata Daszkiewicz, Bernd Liesen and Gerwulf Schneider -- Two-part ceramic incense burners in Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine : technological, regional and ethno-religious aspects / Itamar Taxel and Mark Iserlis -- Late Hellenistic and Early Roman ceramic trends at Tall Madaba, Jordan / Jonathan Ferguson -- Comparing pottery traditions from South Transjordan and from Middle and North Transjordan during the Nabataean-Roman periods ( 1st to 5th centuries AD ) / Yvonne Gerber -- Coarse ware pottery from Roman Aila ( Aqaba, Jordan ) / S. Thomas Parker.

Discussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the Near East. Therefore, in addition to large conferences such as the ‘Late Roman Coarse Ware Conference’ (LRCW) where the Near East plays only a marginal role, an international workshop with 20 participants dedicated solely to the study of Roman common ware pottery in the Near East was held in Berlin on 18th and 19th February 2010. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers actively engaged in the study of Roman common wares the possibility to meet and discuss the current state of research as well as questions and problems they are facing with their material. Some of the participants were able to bring pottery samples, which provided the possibility to compare and discuss the identification and denomination of specific fabrics on a regional and supra-regional scale. This volume presents 17 papers from this stimulating event. The Archaeopress series, Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery (RLAMP) is devoted to research of the Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean. It is designed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The series seeks to gather innovative individual or collective research on the many dimensions of pottery studies ranging from pure typological and chronological essays, to diachronic approaches to particular classes, the complete publication of ceramic deposits, pottery deposit sequences, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, methodological proposals, studies of the economy based on pottery evidence or, among others, ethnoarchaeological ceramic research that may help to understand the production, distribution and consumption of pottery in the Mediterranean basin.