Unguentaria are small ceramic bottles, usually without handles. In the Hellenistic period (323-30 BC) they were commonly produced in the whole Mediterranean Basin. Hellenistic unguentaria occur in various local types, as each geographical region produced forms typical for itself. This article presents one specific type of these vessels – domedmouth unguentaria. For the first time the domed mouth unguentaria were distinguished as a separate category by John W. Hayes during his work on the pottery from the House of Dionysos in Nea Paphos, Cyprus.
This paper concerns the early Roman cooking ware uncovered at Maloutena – the residential quarter of Nea Paphos, Cyprus. All registered diagnostic fragments were subjected to macroscopic, typological and quantitative examinations, and a selection of samples was analysed with petrographic and elemental analyses. The results show that locally produced cooking ware is predominant and diverse in terms of typology. Among imports, pottery from north-western Cyprus, Asia Minor, Italy, and Africa is identified, but it constitutes a small part of the assemblage. These indicate that Nea Paphos participated in broader networks of goods circulation, but at the same time, the city’s inhabitants preferred locally produced cooking ware.
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