Athenian Late Roman Painted Ware [permalink] [show more links]
Type
Typology Item
Not after (date)
500
Not before (date)
220
Broader
Slipped Table Wares
Comment
Dated “earlier III until ca. 500 A.D.“ (Hayes2008, p. 442; cf. Hayes2010).
Bibliography
AgoraV, p. 61, no. K 19 (H. S. Robinson: “Late Roman painted ware”)
Bibliography
Hayes2008, pp. 441–444, figs. 6, 7
Bibliography
Hayes2010, pp. 24–25, 31–32, figs. 7–9 (“white-painted”)
Bibliography
LRP pp. 407–408 (“Athenian ware”), 412–413 (“Athenian white-painted series”)
Bibliography
MorisonRife2022, pp. 596-597 (Koutsongila)
Bibliography
Waage1933, pp. 305–307, nos. 243–256, figs. 5, 6 (“painted ware”)
Description
Middle-Late Roman production in Attica of various open and closed forms: plates, bowls, mugs, jugs, pitchers, a dish with projecting handle bearing zoomorphic finial, miniatures. One popular form was a wide bowl with a flaring body, a keel rim with rounded lip, and a ribbon handle, often in a coarse clay with a dark reddish slip and white-painted decoration, particularly spiral scrolls. Thick, gritty clay with a darker slip, of variable color and quality and overall roughly finished, and simple decoration painted in white, including straight, wavy, and spiraling lines and floral patterns. Regional distribution with an important market in the Corinthia.
Has geographic origin
Attica
Belongs to Historical Period
Late Roman (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period
Middle Roman (Historical Period)
Linked to

KP186 (Athenian Painted-Ware bowl, zoomorphic handle)

KP256 (Athenian Painted-Ware Bowl or Plate)

KP339 (Athenian Painted-Ware Keel-Rim Bowl)

KP363 (Athenian Painted-Ware Keel-Rim Bowl)

KE 1282 (Athenian Painted-Ware Bowl)

KE 1395 (Athenian Painted-Ware Keel-Rim Bowl)

KE 1687 (Athenian Painted-Ware Keel-Rim Bowl)

KE 1724 (Athenian Painted-Ware Keel-Rim Bowl)

KTH2779 (Athenian Painted-Ware Platter or Bowl)

Suggested citation
“Athenian Late Roman Painted Ware.” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/typology/p-athenian-painted>