- Eastern Thin-Walled Ware [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- See also
- https://kenchreai.org/kaa/typology/p-italian-thin-walled
- Broader
- Table Ware, Fine
- Bibliography
- AgoraXXXII, pp. 101-104 (J. W. Hayes)
- Bibliography
- Fenn2008 (Priene)
- Bibliography
- Japp1999 (Pergamon)
- Bibliography
- Sahin2017 (Miletus)
- Description
- “Eastern Thin Walled Ware“ is for now a broad classification for a family of cups, mugs, skyphoi, beakers, and kantharoi or chalices. It does not designate a unified production but rather a popular format or style of drinking vessels that developed in the Aegean region during the Early to Middle Roman periods, influenced significantly by Italian imports (q.v.). The most popular vessel was the globular, collared cup (“Aegean“); another widespread form was the mug with bell-shaped rim (“Phocaean“); both were variously imitated in Greek manufacturing centers, including Athens and Corinth. Workshops in the cities of the eastern Aegean/western Asia Minor sphere also produced their own thin-walled products that display varying degrees of formal innovation and adaptation, including for example Knidos and Corinth.
