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a typology for the late bronze age to early iron age pottery of
southeAstern albania

In respect to late prehistory the south- establish new typology standards. As the
east of Albania is without doubt the best- pottery sequence itself has recently been
known area of the country because of the published05 and a presentation of the layer
excavation of several settlements and burial 5c1 pottery is in press06, the present paper
tumuli in the Korçë and Kolonje districts. It focuses on the typological system chosen.
is this region that set the standards for the After a description of previous pottery
Albanian prehistoric archaeology, both with typologies proposed for late prehistoric
the reference stratigraphy of Maliq and the Albanian and Northern Greek sites, the
publication of the first tumuli like Barç and system chosen for the description of the
Kuç i Zi. But as no Late Bronze Age to Early Sovjan pottery is described below. In parts
Iron Age settlement in Albania has so far of this paper French terms for Sovjan
been published in detail, scholars have still to will be used as the full publication of the
rely on F. Prendi’s pioneering – but largely material is being prepared in French, but
unpublished – work on Maliq for the pottery the English translations are given in a table.
sequence01. Zh. Andrea’s article on the
pottery from sector C is a welcome addition Pottery typologies applied to late
that corrects some crucial points concerning prehistoric sites in Albania
chronological attributions02 and her work on Systematic classifications of late pre-
the Nezir cave presents a reference for the historic pottery from Albania exist as men-
North of the country03. For the typology of tioned only for the tumuli, where, however,
the LBA to EIA pottery a large amount of many domestic shapes are missing or under-
material is available thanks to the exemplary represented. Widemouthed jars, pyraunoi
publications of several tumuli. These and cooking pots for example occur only
funerary finds, however, do not represent when used as urns, which was not the pri-
the whole range of vessels used during that mary purpose these shapes were developed
period. The resulting gap can only be filled for. Deep bowls with horizontal handles,
with the publication of a settlement site. ubiquitous in LBA Sovjan are suspiciously
The results of the French-Albanian rare, while double and triple vessels are no
excavation at Sovjan04, situated less than regular domestic shapes, according to the
3 km from Maliq, make it possible to current state of knowledge. A problem in
reevaluate the latter’s stratigraphy and to respect to these comparisons is, however,

01 F. Prendi, La civilisation préhistorique de Maliq, Studia Albanica, 3, 1966, p. 255-280.

02  Zh. Andrea, Shtresat me qeramike te pikturuar te stilit devollit ne sektorin C te vendbanimit prehistoric te
Maliqit (germime te viteve 1988-90), Iliria, 32, 2009, p. 5-58.
03  Zh. Andrea, Vendbanimi shpellor i Nezirit, pjese dytë-epoka e bronzit, Iliria, 1990, no 2, p. 5-63.
04  For preliminary reports see BCH, 118, 1994 onwards. For LBA and EIA see P. Lera, C. Oberweiler, G.
Touchais, Le passage du Bronze Récent au Fer Ancien sur le site de Sovjan (bassin de Korçë, Albanie) : nouvelles
données chronologiques, in L’Illyrie méridionale et l’Épire dans l’antiquité V, edited by J.-L. Lamboley and M.
P. Castiglioni, De Boccard, 2010, p. 41-52.
05  M. Gori, T. Krapf, The Bronze and Iron Age Pottery from Sovjan, Iliria, 39, 2015, p. 91-135.
06  T. Krapf, Sovjan (Korçë) : first Remarks about the Late Bronze Age Pottery, in Το αρχαιολογικό έργο στην
Άνω Μακεδονία, 3, 2013 (in press).

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that both Sovjan and Maliq were abandoned district09. Unfortunately, the Albanian terms
in the VIIIth c. BC while an important part were not always used in the same way.
of the pottery from the tumuli dates later, Interestingly enough, there are clearly distinct
which might explain some of the diffe­ preferences in pottery consumption between
rences. No detailed settlement stratigraphies the communities of the area10. At Luaras, 77
for the later part of the EIA are publi­shed. vases from the tombs and 60 further vases
Differences between the pottery from the from around the tombs were grouped in eleven
settlement and the related tombs were also types with 33 variations (by pure chance the
noted at Liatovouni in Epirus07. same numbers as at Rehovë), which makes
Typologies of the pottery from tumuli an average of slightly more than four vases
were drafted for describing the complete per variation. The tumulus fill contained
vessels from the tombs. The residual pottery another 2800 pottery fragments (tabl.  II).
fragments from the tumulus fill were often Such typologies were already developed
added in a separate section, underlining the in the 1980s for the first tumulus publications,
incompatibility of the classifications with the e.g. for Prodan (Kolonje)11 as well as Barç
description of broken settlement material. and Kuç i Zi (Korçë)12. At Barç and Kuç i
One of the most recent publications of Zi, the number of handles was used as the
SE Albanian tumuli is S. Aliu’s systematic first level category (no handles, one handle,
work on Rehovë (2012), in Albanian with two handles and four handles), while at
an English translation08. 11 shapes with 33 Prodan their position was also taken into
variations (sometimes comprising a single consideration (one rim handle, one neck
vessel) make up the handmade pottery, handle, two rim handles, two neck / belly
while additional five shapes belong to the handles, no handles, different types)13.
wheel-made and imported wares, for a total In the most recent extensive publication
of 162 complete vessels. Two main groups of a site, i.e. the tumulus of Lofkënd14,
were defined based on the presence of one or another system was followed. Fabric is used
two handles, a useful criterion for complete here as the distinction on the first level,
vessels but unsuitable for sherd material. which makes five broad groups  : fine light
At Sovjan, only few LBA to EIA vases are fabric, fine dark fabric, semi-coarse fabric,
complete enough to determine with certainty coarse fabric and other fabrics. Based
the number of their handles (tabl.  I). on the shape and handles, 13 types were
This classification is similar, but not equal consequently defined, to which “uncertain
to the earlier typology for the pottery of the fragments and additional types” were added.
tumulus of Luaras (2004) published by the Decorations are discussed separately, unless
same author, equally located in the Kolonje they are truly characteristic of a given shape

07  A. Douzougli, J. K. Papadopoulos, Liatovouni : A Molossian Cemetery and Settlement in Epirus, JDAI,
125, 2010, p. 64.
08 S. Aliu, Tuma e Rehovës, Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, 2012. Some English translations of the shapes are
somehow unfortunate (cf. table). For typological plates see p. 174 and 186-187.
09  S. Aliu, Tuma e Luarasit, Instituti i Arkeologjise, 2004. For typological plates see p. 92-96.
10  E. Agolli, Models of Social Networks of Southeast Albania in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (1200-
900 BC), in Hesperos, The Agean Seen from the West, Aegaeum 41, edited by A. Vlachopoulos, Y. Lolos, R.
Laffineur and M. Fotiadis, Peeters Publishers, 2017, p. 319.
11  S. Aliu, Tuma e Prodanit, Iliria, 1984, no 1, p. 27-67.
12  Zh. Andrea, Kultura ilire e tumave në pellgun e Korçës, Qendra e kërkimeve arkeologjike, 1985.
13  Andrea 1985, n. 12, p. 41 fig. 11.
14  S. Pevnick, E. Agolli, The Pottery from the Tombs and Tumulus Fill, in The Excavation of the Prehistoric
Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania, edited by J. K. Papadopoulos, S. P Morris, L. Bejko, and L. A. Schepartz,
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2014, p. 227-322.

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and fabric. This conceptual approach is the following categories  : πρόχοι οπισθο-
based on the process of pottery production τμήτου προχοής, ­πρόχοιθήλαστρα, δίωτα μέ
in four steps : material selection – forming – δισκόμορφον απόληξιν λαβών, αμφορίσκοι,
surface treatment – decoration15. While φιαλόσχημα, υδρίαι, ­κανθαρόσχημα, ανοι-
this classification, once more, is perfectly κτά δίωτα, μόνωτα, πρόχοι, ιδιότυπα and
suited for describing the ceramics of this sherds of unknown vases. At Vitsa, which
site, it would need important adaptations is typologically close to SE Albania, 258
in order to be used for settlement material locally made vases were recorded18. These
of a site at some distance like Sovjan. were classified according to the following
A classification based on fabrics risks to shapes  : ­κάνθαροι, (ραμφόστομες) πρόχοι,
result in more significant local variations, αμφορείς (and αμφορίσκοι), κυάθοι, αμφι-
due to regional geological differences. As κύπελλα, λάγηνοι, όλπες, καλαθίσκοι, τελε-
earlier pottery studies treated fabrics only τουργικά and diverse shapes.
superficially, the general application and
comparability of such a system is difficult. The typology of Kastanas and Agios
On the other hand, such a classification has Mamas
an important advantage  : it allows easily The only complete settlement pottery
including sherd material, even body sherds, studies in the region are the publications
in the first level of sorting and indeed this of the LBA pottery from the two Central
was successfully done with the tumulus fill Macedonian sites of Kastanas19 and Agios
in this publication. Fragments were, when Mamas20. Between the former and Sovjan,
the determination of the exact shape was several chronological correlations can be
impossible, classed into three size categories, established, but the material shows also
based on wall thickness, maximum diameter significant differences in typology and
and height  : small, medium and large (and decoration. Nonetheless, it seemed useful
very small and very large in few cases)16. to apply a system in Sovjan that allows
Finally, two classifications of important direct typological comparisons with Central
numbers of funerary vases in Epirus and Macedonia, as no site closer to the Korçë plain
Macedonia should be mentioned, too. The has been published in such a complete and
excavation of the tumuli necropole at Vergina systematic way. In fact, detailed publications
by M. Andronikos produced 486 hand- of the Kozani, Florina and Kastoria districts
made undecorated vessels, to which some of Western Macedonia are entirely lacking,
Mycenaean shapes, protogeometric vases, apart from the exceptional material from the
painted, incised and channelled vases as well necropolis of the Aiani region21 that covers
as wheel-made undecorated pots have to be only a little part of the shapes encountered in
added17. These 486 vases were grouped into SE Albanian settlements.
15 E. Agolli, The Shaping of Social Complexity, Networks and Cultural Transmissions  : pottery from the
Bronze and Iron Age communities of Southern Illyria and Northern Epirus (2500-500 B.C.), unpublished PhD
University of California, 2014, p. 43-47. eScholar-ship.org.
16  Pevnick-Agolli 2014, cit. supra n. 14, table 9.1.
17  Μ. ΑνδρΌνικου, Βεργίνα Ι, Το νεκροταφείον των τύμβων, Εν Αθήναϊς, 1969, p 167.
18  Ι. ΒοκοτοποΎλου, Βίτσα, Τα νεκροταφεία μιας μολοσσικής κώμης, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, 1986, p. 233-250
19  A. Hochstetter, Kastanas, Ausgrabungen in einem Siedlungshügel der Bronze-und Eisenzeit Makedoniens
1975-1979, Die handgemachte Keramik der Schichten 19 bis 1, Volker Spiess, 1984.
20  B. Horejs, Das prähistorische Olynth, Ausgrabungen in der Toumba Agios Mamas 1994-1996, Die
spätbronzezeitliche handgemachte Keramik der Schichten 13 bis 1, Marie Leidorf, 2007. For the classification
system see p. 89.
21  G. Karamitrou-Mentessidi, The Royal Necropolis of Aiani : research on “Mycenaean”, Archaic, Classical
and Hellenistic Burials, in Το αρχαιολογικό έργο στην Άνω Μακεδονία, 2, 2011, p. 84-153.

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Albanian English Short description

ONE HANDLE
cup with one vertical or horizontal belly handle,
vorba earthenware
S-profile or carination
vase with one vertical handle, normally attached to the
broka jugs
rim and rising above it
filxhanë cups one handled small vase
ojnohe oinochoe beaked jug
tipe të veçanta special types e.g. vessels with basket handles or spouts
TWO HANDLES
kantharoi (with the exception of the variation a which is
kupa cups
a single vessel with triangular protrusions on the rim)
poçe pots « deeper/closed » kantharoi
amfora amphora narrow necked jars
tipe të veçante special types
krater craters wide-mouthed jars and large deep bowls
enët dyshe double vessels
Tabl. I – Typology of handmade pottery of Rehovë tumulus by S. Aliu.

Albanian English Short description

vorba vases cf. Rehovë
kupa bowls handleless small vases
filxhanë cups horizontal or vertical belly handle
broka cooking jugs one vertical handle
vertical handle rising above the rim, some corresponding to
Kana banded jugs
broke at Rehovë
kantarë cantharos deep and shallow kantharoi
amfora amphoras
vase with low foot, represented by only two very different
vazo vase
vases
enë të tipit vessels of
basket handle, type b has three spouts
shportë basket type
enë dyshe double vessels
enë treshe triple vessels
Tabl. II – Typology of handmade pottery of Luaras tumulus by S. Aliu. 

In Kastanas, ten shapes (plus special A. Hochstetter’s work on Kastanas. In the

shapes such as lids or strainers) have outset she separated open, closed and special
been defined mostly according to metric shapes. The distinction between open and
relations and have been subdivided into closed is made by the relation of the rim
types according to their profile, lip and diameter to the belly diameter of the vase.
handles. B. Horejs’s classification of the The rim diameter of an open shape is as large
pottery from Agios Mamas follows largely as or larger than the maximum belly diameter.

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Open shape : rim diameter / belly diameter function most probably was different, as was
= min. 1/1 the origin of the shape23. The Pyraunoi – a
type of cooking pot with an integrated stand –
Elsewhere, the relation between the rim are yet a further open shape. Only two tripods
diameter and the height from base to rim were attested at Agios Mamas and they are
is used. The two relations might produce both imports24, while two-legged cooking
entirely different results, as is the case with pots occurring in Albania and Macedonia can
the Lofkënd material22. Therefore it is crucial be counted as a variation of the pyraunoi25.
to declare the applied formula when speaking The amphora is the most characteristic
about open and closed vessels (tabl.  III). closed shape with its rim diameter that is at
The open shapes at Agios Mamas and least by a third smaller than the largest belly
Kastanas are further subdivided based diameter and with the clear distinction it
on the relation between the rim diameter presents between shoulder and neck. In metric
and the height of the vessel. Handles terms, the Kugelkantharos and the amphora
rising above the rim and the rarely differ in respect to their rim diameter  : the
occurring feet or low ring bases should diameter of the former is between 5 and 13
not be included in the height (tabl.  IV). cm while that of the Amphoren is between
At Agios Mamas, the profiles of the 10 and 40 cm26. The Krüge in turn also
Schalen and Schüsseln are in general have a smaller rim diameter (5-15 cm)
different, strengthening this distinction. and they have only one handle and often a
Further open shapes are the Kantharoi and spout. Contrary to the Kugelkantharoi their
Tassen, defined by the presence of one, handles are normally not higher than the rim.
respectively two vertical handles (in the
case of the Kantharoi the handles are placed The typology system applied in Sovjan
above the rim). While a distinction of these A first draft of the pottery typology used
two shapes was possible at Kastanas, they for the later phases of Sovjan was presented
were treated together at Agios Mamas. In in the BCH 201427. For the classification of
more fragmented materials, this distinction the pottery of layers 5c3 to 4a it proofed to be
should not be applied due to the impossibility more useful to adopt the Central Macedonian
of determining the number of handles a vase contemporary system than the classification
possessed. The Kugelkantharoi (spherical of the Early Bronze Age material from
kantharoi) are an exception, as theirs is a Sovjan itself as applied by M. Gori28. Her
closed shape by definition because of their terminology is tailored for Early Bronze
restricted mouth. They were still treated Age material, but was used –  with some
along with the other kantharoi, although their modifications and supplements – in the same
22  Pevnick-Agolli 2014, cit. supra note 14, p. 229.
23  Horejs 2007, cit. supra note 22, p.  122-126. S. Andreou, K. Psaraki, Tradition and Innovation in the
Bronze Age Pottery of the Thessaloniki Toumba. Food and Drink Consumption and “Tableware” Ceramics, in
Proceedings of the International Symposium Strymon Praehistoricus, edited by H. Todorova, M. Stefa-novich
and G. Ivanov, Museum of History Kyustendil, 2007, p. 408.
24  Horejs 2007, cit. supra note 22, p. 146.
25  A. Bräuning, I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Die eisenzeitlichen Grabhügel von Vergina, Die Ausgrabungen von
Photis Petsas 1960-1961, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2013, p. 21-23.
26  Horejs 2007, cit. supra note 22, p. 153.
27  P.  Lera, G. Touchais, C. Oberweiler, in collaboration with A. Chabrol, T. Krapf, F. Pagnoux, N.
Thomas, Travaux de l’École française d’Athènes en 2013, Sovjan, Bassin de Korçë, Kallamas, BCH, 138, 2014,
p. 800-802.
28  M. Gori, Along the Rivers and Through the Mountains, A Revised Chrono-Cultural framework for the
South-Western Balkans during the Late 3rd and Early 2nd Millennium BCE, Rudolph Habelt, 2015, p. 41-45.

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Open Closed Special shape

Schalen Amphoren Siebgefässe
Schüsseln Krüge Deckel
Kantharoi/Tassen Pithoi Miniaturgefässe
Töpfe Backwannen
Pyraunoi Einzelstücke
Tabl. III – Vase shapes at Agios Mamas according to Horejs 2007, p. 89.

Rim diam. / height Shape

min. 1.5/1 Schalen
max. 1.4/1 Schüsseln
max. 1/1 Töpfe (vase is higher than the rim diameter)

Table IV – Subdivision of open shapes at Agios Mamas.

publication for the Late Bronze Age pottery marmite”, and for the shallower (rim diam.
from Sveta Nedela in F.Y.R.O.M., too. / height = min. 1.5 / 1) “bol peu profond,
The here proposed classification system jatte, bassine”. The sequence of open shapes
(pl. I), based on Kastanas and Agios Mamas, from very shallow to deep is “assiette,
was also applied to layer 6 of Sovjan, bol peu profound, bol profound, jarre”.
originally dated to the Late Bronze Age As the French terms do not always
and therefore studied by the same author. It correspond to German typological
didn’t, however, turn out to be very useful classifications, some new proposals had to
for describing this sherd material, which is be made, such as the attribution of the name
closer to the ceramics of the preceding layers “marmite / cratère” to the large Schüsseln.
than to those of the following Late Bronze Both terms are being used for Sovjan, as
Age in layer 5c3. This fact underlines the some of those vessels are clearly cooking
difficulty of creating a general diachronic pots (“marmites”) while others are not
typology (“cratères”). In general, the names should
The same metric relations as at Kastanas not imply functions but simply label distinct
and Agios Mamas (cf. supra) are applied in shapes. It seemed preferable to use simple
Sovjan in order to make them comparable. terms instead of long descriptions. Systematic
Some additions, however, were necessary, work in French has been done by Z. Tsirtsoni
as it proofed to be useful to make a further for the Late Neolithic Pottery of Macedonia29
distinction between larger and smaller that is very useful for French terminology of
versions of the same shapes as their shapes. She used a similar definition for the
functions must have clearly been different. distinction between open and closed vases :
This limit has been set for the open shapes the maximum diameter is at the rim or – in
at 18-22 cm rim diameter. The series are the case of a slight retreat of the upper part –
for the deeper vases (rim diam. / height = the rim diameter should then be at least 4/5
1.01 / 1 to 1.49 / 1) “bol profond, cratère/ of the maximum diameter (tabl.  V-VI).
29  Z. Tsirtsoni, Les poteries du début du Néolithique Récent en Macédoine, I. Les types de récipients, BCH,
124.1, 2000, p. 1-55.

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Pl. I – Typological plate of Sovjan with examples from layers 6 to 5 c1.

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Shape
Rim diam. / height Rim diam. Further characteristics
(French)
OPEN
Max. 10/1 ca. 17 cm petits plateaux
32-42 cm grands plateaux
5/1 to 10/1 below 30 cm assiettes can have a low foot
above 30 cm plats example with four feet
below 12 cm coupelles
2.5/1 to 5/1 12-23 cm écuelles
above 23 cm plats creux
below 12 cm petits bols
1.5/1 to 2.5/1 12-18 cm bols
19-40 cm jattes
Max. 1.5/1 5-12 cm gobelets
1/1 or slightly larger 18-27.5 cm marmites
coupes
normally with handles/lugs
for vases whose foot is only preserved
CLOSED
10-26 cm
Min. 1/2 pots with and without neck
and 6-10 cm
Height clearly larger variable jarre with and without neck, large
Table V – Shape definition in French for Macedonian Late Neolithic pottery according to Tsirtsoni 2000.

Code French German Albanian English

Ca canthare Kantharos kantar kantharos
Open Ta tasse Tasse filxhan cup
Bp bol profond kleine Schüssel tenxhere e vogël deep bowl
small Bo bol peu profond kleine Schale tas e vogël shallow bowl
As assiette Teller1 pjatë plate
Ma/Cr marmite/cratère grosse Schüssel tenxhere e madhe large deep bowl
Open Jt jatte grosse Schale tas e madhe large shallow bowl
Ba bassine Becken2 lekane basin
large Jr jarre Topf qyp jar
Py pyraunos Pyraunos pyraunos pyraunos
Closed Cu cruche Krug kanë jug
small Aq amphorisque Amphoriskos amforiskos amphoriskos
amphora/narrow
Closed Am amphore Amphore amforë
necked jar
large Pi pithos Pithos Pitos pithos
Special Pa passoir Siebgefäss kulluse strainer
shapes Vm vase miniature Miniaturgefäss ëne miniaturë miniature vase
1  Not present in the Kastanas / Agios Mamas classification. 2  Not present in the Kastanas / Agios Mamas classification.

Table VI – Shape names for LBA to EIA Sovjan.

Description of LBA to EIA shapes at it is hard even to attribute the fragmented

Sovjan material to this second level. For the sake
A short description of the main shapes of simplicity, simple codes (Jr for “jarred”)
at Sovjan and their correspondence to those and Latin numbers are used (e.g. JrI), which
of other sites are presented here. These should facilitate easy recognition. Only first
shapes are further subdivided into types level classification is presented here, as
according to their profile, but only one some adaptations of the second level might
level of subdivision is being used. Often, still take place before the final publication.

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“Canthares” and “tasses” (kantharoi height of the vessel. Their profile is normally
and cups) : basic characteristic for the less pronounced than that of the deeper
kantharoi are their two (mostly high) rim shapes. Exception are the shallow wishbone
handles, while cups have a single vertical handled bowls with a marked S-profile,
handle. Fragmentation does not allow the typical shape appearing in layer 5c3. Typical
determination of the number of handles for the “jattes” are also the EIA large bowls
for most vessels, necessitating a common with inturned rims. The turban dish with its
classification. They are an exception to channelled rim, rarely encountered at Sovjan
the metric classification, justified by the and in the SE Albanian tumuli32 but apparently
omnipresence of typical kantharos handles more common in Northern Albania33,
and their separate classification in all belongs to this category. “Bassines” are large
known typologies. According to their rim “jattes”. Is the rim diameter even larger in
/ height relation they would otherwise be relation to the height, the vase is categorised
counted as “bols profonds”. There is great as “assiette” (plate), but this shape is rare.
variety in size, from miniatures to large “Bols profonds” and “cratères/
specimen that most probably were not used marmites” (deep bowls and craters)  : the
as drinking vessels. At least one pyraunos deeper bowls have a rim diameter that is
has kantharos handles30. Kantharoi have equal to the height of the vase or up to 50%
most often a S-profile or a carination larger. The smaller “bols profonds” normally
and concave upper body, but other types have different types of S-profiles or a light
equally occur like semiglobular kantharoi. carination and concave upper body, while
In EIA, deeper kantharoi with smaller rim the larger “cratères/ marmites” have either
diameters, actually closed vessels, become an S-profile or an unpronounced almost
more frequent. At Agios Mamas, the open vertical upper body with flattened lip.  The
and closed kantharoi were classified in two terms “cratères/ marmites” are used in
the same first level category “Kantharoi order to distinguish two different groups
und Tassen”31 as at Sovjan. At Rehovë, the of different use in this metric class : one of
separation is made between kupa (open coarse less profiled vessels (“marmites”) and
kantharoi) and poça (closed kantharoi), one with finer and more carefully produced
while both types were named kantarë at vases of different profiles (“cratères”). The
Luaras. At Sveta Nedela, cups, kantharoi latter can have matt painted decoration in
and some tankards fall in this category. the EIA and rarely a low foot. Some of the
“Bols peu profonds” and “jattes” “cratères / marmites” have spouts. Handles
(shallow bowls)  : as mentioned above, the are normally horizontal, but vertical belly
open shapes are grouped according first to handles exist as well. At Barç, the term
the relation between rim diameter and height krateri is used for large deep bowls34, but it
and second to size. The shallower shapes is attributed in the same publication also to
(“bols peu profonds” and “jattes”) have a rim deeper shapes, as the two-legged pyraunos
diameter that is at least 50% larger than the (?) of grave 5/a of tumulus 1 of Kuç I Zi35.

30  T. Krapf, Interaction entre production locale et influences externes  : le cas de la céramique du Bronze
Récent de la Grèce du Nord et de l’Albanie du Sud, Archéo. doct, 6, 2014, p. 240 fig. 2.
31  Horejs 2007, cit. supra note 22, p. 115-126.
32  Andrea 1985, n. 12, p. 264, pl. III and p. 270, pl. IX.
33 F. Prendi, Zh. Andrea, Të dhëna të reja mbi neolitin në Shqipëri, Iliria, 11, 1981, no 2, p. 29 and p. 39
pl. VIII.
34  Andrea 1985, cit. supra note 12, p. 67.
35  Andrea 1985, cit. supra note 12, p. 132 and pl. LX, 1.

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At Rehovë this term is equally used both for jars) : narrow necked jars are quite frequent
large deep bowls and wide-mouthed jars36. at Sovjan, but the large vessels did not
“Jarres” (wide-mouthed jars) : the wide- produce many rim fragments due to the
mouthed jars are deep vessels with not small diameter of the upper part. A whole
much difference between maximum and rim range of types is present. Their rim diameter
diameter. They were produced in semi-coarse is clearly smaller than the maximum belly
to coarse fabric and have either a short everted diameter. Belly handles are both vertical and
rim or an unpronounced upper part, often with horizontal. No example is preserved with a
a flattened lip. As many of the other shapes, full profile and fragments of the lower part
they had a flat base in layer 6 and more often are not easily recognised, except when they
a rounded base in the overlaying layers. Lug belong to the typical thick walled LBA ware
handles, finger impressed bands as well as of fine fabric with large quartz inclusions
undulated rims are common. At Rehovë, that is fired at a high temperature and has
the few wide-mouthed jars were grouped a nicely smoothed, light brown surface.
together with the large deep bowls as krater. Narrow necked jars equally occur in the less
At Sveta Nedela, both wide-mouthed and distinct coarse ware. They can have a simple
narrow-necked jars are categorised as jars. vertical rim without rupture between neck
Pyraunoi : pyraunoi are a special shape. and body and funnel shaped, cylindrical
Their distinction from the “jarres” is only and conical necks. Smaller amphorae
possible, when the attachment of the stand are labelled “amphorisques”. Some of
is preserved. In earlier publications, these them might be jugs, but they cannot, in
cooking pots were not recognised as such absence of a vertical handle on the neck,
but the attachment of the stand interpreted be labelled as such. Amphorae have two
as a type of decoration around the body37. or more belly handles. Both at Luaras and
On the other hand, fragments of their Rehovë, this shape was classified as amfora.
stands are easily recognisable thanks to “Cruches” (jugs)  : only very few jugs
the aeration holes, as are fragments of the were identified at Sovjan. In general, this
lower invisible body part with their rough shape seems less frequent in Albania than
outer surface. This very different pattern of in Epirus and Macedonia. Its rarity in
fragment identification makes their inclusion settlement contexts is at least partially due
in quantification systems problematic. The to the difficulty of identifying fragments
fabric of the pyraunoi is coarse, sometimes except for the necks / spouts. The shape is
very coarse (up to 50% of the fabric defined as a small to medium sized closed
consisting of different rocks). Handles, shape with a vertical handle on the neck
both horizontal and vertical, as well as and often a spout. Concave, beaked and cut
large lugs were placed at the height of the away necks are attested at Sovjan. Some
attachment of the stand. Otherwise, there is jugs do not have a neck at all, but fall into
not much variety, except in the size of the this category being closed vessels with
vase or the height of the foot38. A variation one vertical handle. In Albanian literature,
of the pyraunos is the two-legged cooking the jugs are classified as broka, kana and
stand. Tripods do not occur in LBA Albania. ojnohe. Some of the tankards of Sveta
Amphores (Amphorae / narrow necked Nedela could be classified as “cruches”.
36  Aliu 2012, cit. supra note 8, 181. Large deep bowl see pl. XXXII, 382.
37  Aliu 1984, cit. supra note 11, p. 45.
38 Cf. T. Krapf, The Late Bronze Age Pottery of Macedonia : comparisons with the Plain of Korçë, in A Century of
Research in Prehistoric Macedonia, 1912-2012, International Conference Proceedings, Archaeological Museum
of Thessaloniki, 22-24 November 2012, edited by E. Stefani, N. Meroussis and A. Dimoula, Archaeological
Museum of Thessaloniki, 2014, p. 586-589.

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“Passoires” (strainers) : a handful of attachment method. This allows analysing

fragments of strainers have been identified at relations between features and fabrics and
Sovjan. Thanks to the many small perforations quantifying many different characteristics,
made before firing, this shape is easily e.g. the development of handle types,
recognisable, even for body sherds. They are independently of the shapes. It furthermore
generally small with diameters of ca. 10 cm. allows higher numbers in the statistics, as
Pithoi : few sherds of pithoi were found more fragments can be considered.
at Sovjan. These big storage containers have
thick walls (ca. 2 cm) and large rim diameters

handle attachment
of 50 cm or more. Thick wall fragments can
belong both to pithoi and large narrow necked

handle section
handle type
jars. The latter seem to be much more frequent.

decoration
base type
“Vases miniatures” (miniature vases) :

rim type

lug type
number
several types of miniature vases are attested

shape
ware
at Sovjan, from miniature kantharoi
to different types of miniature bowls,
normally with diameters lower than 4 cm. Registration form for vases/feature sherds at Sovjan
Some of the shapes represented in the (except quantification criteria).
tumuli are not included in this list, as they
were not identified among the pottery
from Sovjan, e.g. the multiple vessels. Fabric, technology and decoration
Similar to most Southern Balkan LBA Handmade pottery, lacking standardisa-
typologies, imports are not included. Their tion, can hardly be classified in great detail.
typologies are, anyways, well-known from Most of the fabric classifications in the SW
publications of Southern Greek sites. At Balkans are broad and Agios Mamas’ very
Kastanas e.g they were treated in a separate detailed distinctions were criticized by some
publication39 and at Toumba Thessaloniki scholars41. Due to their many – partially
attributed to a different scholar. In Southern long-range – networks, coastal Macedonian
Albania, they are simply too rare for proper sites can, however, hardly be compared with
typological work and settlement sherds are highland settlements. In Epirus, much as at
often too small. At Sovjan, few Mycenaean Lofkënd, a handful of main groups are being
shapes such as the kylix are present40. used  : 1) Coarse ware with plastic decora-
As the bulk of the material is highly tion, 2) semi-coarse ware with slightly bur-
fragmented and for several shapes no nished surfaces in black, grey or brown, 3)
complete vases available (e.g. for the jugs), matt painted pottery, 4) unpainted orange
details of feature sherds are to be recorded ware, 5) coarse ware with red surfaces42.
independently of the shape for reaching These wares, in general lines, are also pre­
statistically significantly numbers  : ware, sent in SE Albania.
decoration, rim type, base type, handle At Sovjan, there is as for the typology a
type (separate for vertical and horizontal marked difference between the earlier phases
handles), lug type, handle section and handle and the LBA to EIA layers. For the layers 9 to
39  R. Jung, Kastanas, Ausgrabungen in einem Sied-lungshügel der Bronze-und Eisenzeit Makedoniens, 1975-
1979, Die Drehscheibenkeramik der Schichten 19 bis 11, Oetker/Voges, 2002.
40  Gori-Krapf 2015, cit. supra note 5, p. 114 fig. 10.4.
41  See P. Pavúk, AJA Online Book Review 113.3, 2009.
42  E. Βασιλείου, Η μετάβαση από τη Χαλκοκρατία στην εποχή του σιδήρου στην Ήπειρο : τα δεδομένα από
τον οικισμό της Κρύας στο λεκανοπέδιο τω Ιωαννίνων, in The «Dark Ages» Revisited, edited by A. Mazarakis
Ainian, University of Thessaly Press, p. 268.

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7 defining fabric groups was not useful due and quantity of temper, surface treatment,
to the lack of standardisation, but different surface colour (only for the fine wares where
technological characteristics were quantified a conscious choice seems to have been
independently, as temper size, colour and made), thickness of the walls and firing.
surface treatment43. More variety and distinct Imported wares were classified separately.
ceramic wares appear in the LBA, starting in This resulted in 22 wares (excl. the imports)
layer 5c3. The inclusion of the MBA/LBA four of which occur only during the EIA
layer 6, which still has many traditional (pl.  II). Several of them are either rare or
features in terms of pottery technology, used for specific functions as for pyraunos
into the LBA quantification systems shows cooking stands. In the table below, the
clearly the major technological development wares were further simplified and some
between layers 6 and 5c3, marking the rare fabrics grouped together. The entire
beginning of proper LBA44. In layer 6 fine local pottery is handmade and especially
ware is practically absent and burnished semi- for larger jars traces of coiling are clearly
coarse to coarse wares were used for serving visible in the breaks. Some technological
and drinking, while different semi-fine to fine developments, such as the method of handle
wares appeared only in layer 5c3. There is attachment, are chronological markers45.
also a general tendency towards reddish and A programme of chemical analysis with a
light brown surfaces from layer 5c3 onwards, portable XRF tool was carried out in 2015
attesting to a change in the firing process. in collaboration with O. Aslaksen and was
The Late Bronze Age wares of Sovjan complemented in 2017 by a survey of the
were defined according to temper size, type local clays in the Korçë plain (tabl.  VII).

1a/2a Reddish brown polished

1b/2b Grey polished
1c/2c Light brown polished
Fine to semi-
2d Common semi-fine ware
fine
2e Very well fired semi-fine ware
2h Low fired orange ware (EIA ware)
21 Semi-fine ware with light colored slip (EIA ware)
3a Semi-coarse ware (with a range of different rock inclusions)
Semi-coarse 3b Burnished semi-coarse ware
3d Black burnished thin walled semi-coarse
4a Coarse ware (with a range of different rock inclusions)
4b Burnished coarse ware
4c Coarse ware with untreated surface
4d Fine fabric with large inclusions (mainly quartz)
Coarse 4e Very coarse ware (up to 50% of the fabric consisting of rocks)
4f/g Coarse wares with crushed sherd temper
Coarse ware with high quantity of large silver mica inclusions
4h
(EIA ware)
4i Low fired coarse ware with organic temper
5a Mycenaean / LBA wheel made
Import
5b Protogeometric and geometric
Table VII – Simplified list of LBA and EIA wares at Sovjan.

43  Gori 2015, cit. supra note. 28, p. 35-40.

44 Cf. Lera et alii 2014, cit. supra note. 27, p. 802.
45  Gori-Krapf 2015, cit. supra note 5, p. 97 and p. 101 fig. 3.

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Pl. II – Microscope photos of selected fabrics of LBA Sovjan. From top to bottom : SV06/350.33, SV99/410.6,
SV99/467.15, SV94/241.45 and SV02/305.21.

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Pl. III – LBA and EIA decoration types of Sovjan. From top to bottom : SV90 1/5 no. 19.1, SV94/256.45,
SV06/387.8, SV06/416.23, SV99/421.15, SV91 6/11 no. 235, SV06/407.12, SV03/465.22, SV96/336.39 and
SV03/465.17.

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southeAstern Albania

An overview of the LBA to EIA decora- cannot be attributed with certainty to specific
tion types is given in pl. III, including trans- shapes. The final publication of the LBA and
lations. They were not included into the ware EIA pottery from Sovjan is still pending and
classification, although decoration types are minor adaptations of the typology might
associated with certain groups of wares. One proof necessary, but the system is submitted
of the reasons for avoiding this is the fact hereby to scholarly discussion. It actually
that the vases were never decorated on their has already been applied to the 2015 Iliria
entire surface and undecorated fragments article on the Bronze to Iron Age pottery of
might well have belonged to decorated vases. Sovjan.
It is hoped, that some basic agreements on
Conclusions terminology and translations can be found in
the future, facilitating comparisons between
Handmade pottery is often subject to individual sites and studies. Research has so
much variability and the definition of far developed detailed typologies tailored to
classifications difficult, even more when fit the materials of specific sites, tumuli and
it comes to over-regional or diachronic the settlement of Sovjan, but a general syn-
systems. There is much difference between thesis or manual of the LBA to EIA pottery
the classification of complete vessels and of Albania and its neighboring regions is still
broken settlement material that most often a desideratum.

T. Krapf
Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece

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 Table des matières

Volume I

Discours inaugural, Pierre Cabanes.............................................................................. 1

Première partie // Recherches nouvelles (2009–2015)

1 – Préhistoire et protohistoire

Adem Bunguri, Shafi Gashi, The culture of Bronze Age in Kosovo in the light of
recent excavations.............................................................................................................. 9
Ilir Gjipali, Bronze and Iron Age fortified settlements in south-western Albania........... 29
Rudenc Ruka, An overview on early prehistoric evidence from the Korça Basin.......... 41
Michael L. Galaty, Lorenc Bejko, Sylvia Deskaj, Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës
(PASH) 2010 – 2014 : preliminary results of a Regional Archaeological Survey of
the Shkodër ­Region.......................................................................................................... 47
Christos N. Kleitsas, Ideology, production and consumption of metal axes in Epirus
and Albania during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age........................................... 57
Tobias Krapf, A typology for the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age pottery of
southeastern Albania......................................................................................................... 67
Athina Boleti, Les lames en pierre polie (haches, herminettes, ciseaux) du site
néolithique de Kallamas (Prespa) : approche technologique.......................................... 83
Rovena Kurti, Regional identities in late Iron Age Albania : the arched bow fibulae
from the north of the country........................................................................................... 89
Kushtrim Kuqi, Shafi Gashi, Le site de Nakarada (Kosovo).......................................... 95
Eleni D. Vasileiou, The phenomenon of handmade burnished ware. New data from
central Epirus, Greece................................................................................................... 101

2 – Période gréco-romaine

2.1 – Épigraphie et histoire

Pierre Cabanes, Les Enchéléens, les Dassarètes, Cadmos et Harmonie...................... 109

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 Claudia Antonetti, Sulla zattera di Odisseo. Storia ed epigrafia della Grecia
occidentale, delle isole Ioniche e dell’Adriatico............................................................ 127
Faïk Drini, Le symbole des « mains supines » sur des monuments funéraires des
sites antiques de l’Albanie............................................................................................. 137
Elizabeth Deniaux, Byllis colonie romaine : institutions civiques et interventions
des évergètes dans un contexte de crise......................................................................... 141
Maria Intrieri, Corcira, l’Epiro e l’Illiria, terra e mare fra mito e storia................... 151
Ioulia K. Katsadima, Ambracian onomastics : problems and perspectives.................. 165
John Wilkes, Cohabitation or coexistence : Roman gentilicia in Greek and Roman
epitaphs in Epirus and Illyris......................................................................................... 173

2.2 – Numismatique et histoire

Shpresa Gjongecaj, Guerre et thésaurisation en Illyrie du sud et en Épire du ve au ier

siècle av. J.-C................................................................................................................. 183
Albana Meta, Nouvelles recherches sur le monnayage en argent de Dyrrhachion...... 191

2.3 – Régions et sites archéologiques

2.3.1 – Dardanie

Edi Shukriu, Kulina site and pre-roman funeral figurative monument........................ 203
Exhale Dobruna-Salihu, Latest findings of movable archaeological monuments
in Kosovo....................................................................................................................... 211
Arben Hajdari, Nouvelles données sur l’urbanisme d’Ulpiana................................... 223
Kemal Luci, Pleurat Kabashi, Premtim Alaj, Preliminary archeological results
at the fortification of Brezovica (2013 – 2014).............................................................. 235
Sedat Baraliu, Premtim Alaj, L’architecture des tumulus au Kosovo........................ 243

2.3.2 – Rhizon

Piotr Dyczek, An illyrian palace in Rhizon : preliminary results................................. 259

2.3.3 – Shkodra

Saimir Shpuza, Piotr Dyczek, Scodra, de la capitale du royaume illyrien à la

capitale de la province romaine..................................................................................... 269

2.3.4 – Scampis – Via Egnatia

Ylli Cerova, Via Egnatia – Scampis : la naissance d’un centre urbain........................ 281

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2.3.5 – Epidamnos – Dyrrachium

Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Yann Mannon, Eduard Shehi, Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia,

Recherches sur la topographie de Durrës : SIG, prospections et fouilles
(2012-2015).................................................................................................................... 291
Björn Forsén, Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia, Kalle Korhonen, Eduard Shehi, Rudenc
Ruka, Esko Tikkala, Dyrrachium Hinterland Project. First preliminary report........ 301
Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia, Late roman Dyrrachium : excavations at the
triangular tower............................................................................................................. 319
Afrim Hoti, Dati sulla cultura materiale bizantina dell’anfiteatro di Durazzo
(scavi degli anni 1966-2002)......................................................................................... 335

2.3.6 – Apollonia

Marie-Hélène Barriere, Apollonia d’Illyrie : panorama de la céramique

domestique d’époque impériale..................................................................................... 343
Sophie Bouffier, Lami Koço, Lavdosh Jaupaj, L’eau dans la ville antique
d’Apollonia. État de la question.................................................................................... 349
Olgita Ceka, Un portrait d’Octavien au musée d’Apollonia......................................... 367
Arjan Dimo, Apollonia: l’edificio a mosaici nella città bassa....................................... 371
Erik Follain, Les aménagements et les occupations tardives du centre monumental
romain d’Apollonia d’Illyrie : un rendez-vous manqué................................................. 377
Arjan Dimo, Marin Haxhimihali, Nouvelles données sur la nécropole hellénistique
d’Apollonia.................................................................................................................... 389
Henner Von Hesberg, Bashkim Lahi, Manuel Fiedler, Brikena Shkodra-Rrugia,
Eduard Shehi, Gregor Döhner, The theatre at Apollonia. Features and finds
2006–2015..................................................................................................................... 401
Jean-Luc Lamboley, Altin Skenderaj, L’urbanisme dans la ville basse
d’Apollonia.................................................................................................................... 417

Volume II

2.3.7 – Byllis

Pascale Chevalier, Nicolas Beaudry, Une ville du vie siècle retournant à la

ruralité : désurbanisation et abandon du siège épiscopal de Byllis.............................. 435
Skender Muçaj, L’évolution urbaine de Byllis de sa fondation jusqu’à l’abandon
de la ville........................................................................................................................ 449

1203
 Tony Kozelj, Manuela Wurch-Kozelj, Les carrières de calcaire de Byllis
(Albanie)........................................................................................................................ 467

2.3.8 – Amantia

Vasil Bereti, Types et particularités des tombes dans les nécropoles des Amantes..... 483
Jamarbër Buzo, Elio Hobdari, La nécropole d’Amantia............................................. 497

2.3.9 – Orikos

Saimir Shpuza, Gionata Consagra, Jean-Paul Descoeudres, Vasil Bereti, Récentes

découvertes sur le site d’Orikos : un bilan des campagnes de fouilles 2012-2015....... 509
Stephen Hart, Le bitume sur la céramique du site d’Orikos........................................ 523

2.3.10 – Antigoneia

Dhimitër Çondi, Antigonea in the light of new excavations......................................... 529

2.3.11 – Phoinike

Sandro De Maria, Sidi Gorica, Spazi pubblici e spazi privati a Phoinike in età’
ellenistica : nuove ricerche............................................................................................ 541
Riccardo Villicich, Il teatro di Phoinike : storia di un monumento all’indomani
della conclusione degli scavi......................................................................................... 555
Giuseppe Lepore, Vivere in una palude : bonifiche e gestione idraulica a
Phoinike......................................................................................................................... 565
Federica Boschi, Michele Silani, Indagini geofisiche e geoarcheologiche per la
ricostruzione della morfologia della collina di Phoinike.............................................. 575
Anna Gamberini, Indicatori di produzione artigianale a Phoinike in età
ellenistico-romana......................................................................................................... 579

2.3.12 – Hadrianopolis

Dhimitër Çondi, Roberto Perna, Hadrianopolis, nascita di una città nella valle
del Drino........................................................................................................................ 587
Elena Ciccarelli, Sofia Cingolani, Dhimitër Çondi, Milena Melfi, Roberto Perna,
Jessica Piccinini, David Sforzini, Hadrianopolis prima di Hadrianopolis : nuovi dati
dallo scavo delle terme.................................................................................................. 597
Elena Ciccarelli, Sofia Cingolani, Valeria Tubaldi, Ceramiche fini a vernice
rossa da Hadrianopolis. Ipotesi di produzione, commerci, areali di diffusione............. 605
Roberto Perna, Valentina Capradossi, Contenitori da trasporto da Hadrianopolis
(Sofratikë-Al).................................................................................................................. 619

1204
2.3.13 – Bouthrotos

David R. Hernandez, Dhimitër Çondi, The agora and forum at Butrint :a new
topography of the ancient urban center......................................................................... 629
Giacomo Piazzini, Epirote common wares, cooking wares and amphorae from late
antique Butrint............................................................................................................... 647

2.3.14 – Dodone

Georgios Smyris, Nuovi dati sull’ architettura del teatro di Dodona dopo gli ultimi
lavori di restauro............................................................................................................ 655

2.3.15 – Molossie / région de Ioannina

Vassiliki Giannaki, Anastasia Giovanopolou, Roman baths in Ioannina basin......... 669

Thalia Kyrkou, Nikos Choinas, Successive fortifications on the acropolis of
Megalo Gardiki on Kastri hill. Prefecture of Ioannina.................................................. 673
Lorenzo Mancini, Considerazioni sulla forma architettonica del tempio cosiddetto
“di Zeus Areios” a Rodotopi (Ioannina)....................................................................... 677
Georgette Pliakou, L’habitat fortifié de Megalo Gardiki (Passaron ?). Nouvelles
données sur l’organisation urbanistique et le cadre chronologique............................. 695
Paraskevi Yiouni, Ypatia Faklari, Charis Kappa, New evidence for the urban
organization and the fortification of the citadel in Kastritsa in the Ioannina basin...... 705
Georgios Εmm. Riginos, Dimitris N. Sakkas, Ager Nicopolitanus. The archaeology
of the suburban zone of Nicopolis................................................................................. 711
Konstantinos L. Zachos, Recent investigations at the theater of Nicopolis.
The Augustan building phase......................................................................................... 721

2.3.16 – Thesprôtie

Kalliopi Preka-Alexandri, Angelos Nakasis, The temple of the Parthenos at

Gitana............................................................................................................................ 737
Georgios Εmm. Riginos, Kassiani Lazari, Vasiliki Lamprou, Antonia Tzortzatou,
New archaeological data from the main Classical – Hellenistic fortified settlements
of Thesprotia after the enhancement works of the last decade...................................... 753
Christos Spanodimos, The city walls of Gitana. Function, chronology and
historical development................................................................................................... 765
Kassiani Lazari, Ourania Palli, Recent research in the villa rustica of Zavali,
Ladochori, and the Roman cemetery in Mazarakia....................................................... 781
Tommi Turmo, The Gouriza Kiln in Thesprotia........................................................... 785

1205
 2.3.17 – Relations maritimes

Nadia Aleotti, Gloria Bolzoni, Contatti commerciali nel basso Ionio tra l’età
ellenistica e l’età imperiale: i dati delle anfore da Butrinto.......................................... 791
Sabina Veseli, La vaisselle en bronze et les relations entre les deux rives de
l’Adriatique à la période républicaine ......................................................................... 797

Volume III

3 – Basse Antiquité et Haut Moyen-Âge

Sonia Antonelli, Diffusione del cristianesimo e cristianizzazione degli spazi a

Dyrrachium / Dyrrhachion tra tarda antichità e altomedioevo..................................... 821
Gëzim Hoxha, L’église paléochrétienne de Korishë et quelques traits du
christianisme ancien dans le territoire de la Dardanie................................................. 831
Melsi Labi, Palaeochristian churches in Drino’s valley................................................ 847
Reshat Gega, Les sculptures du monastère de Saint-Nicolas de Mesopotam et
leur relation avec l’architecture..................................................................................... 855
Lorenzo Mancini, Marco Podini, Aggiornamenti sugli scavi condotti nella
chiesa paleocristiana di Phoinike.................................................................................. 865
Yuri A. Marano, Le sepolture privilegiate della Grecia settentrionale
protobizantina................................................................................................................ 879
M.-P. Raynaud, A. Islami, Ateliers de mosaïstes en Albanie. Sédentaires ou
itinérants ?...................................................................................................................... 893
Skënder Bushi, Era Xhaferaj, viith century African amphorae in Albania.................. 907
Enrico Cirelli, Le ceramiche tardoantiche e altomedievali rinvenute negli
scavi di Phoinike............................................................................................................ 913
Irklid Ristani, The medieval village of Kamenicë, a xivth century model...................... 917
Suela Xhyheri, L’illuminazione nelle chiese di Albania nella tarda antichità............. 923

Deuxième partie // Villes, territoires, populations, dynamiques

environnementales

C. Oberweiler, P. Lera , G. Touchais, Les dynamiques d’implantation des habitats

dans le bassin de Korçë (Albanie) de la préhistoire à la période médiévale : facteurs
humains et paléoenvironnementaux............................................................................... 935

1206
Marco Moderato, Dyrrachium e il suo territorio : per un’archeologia dei
paesaggi......................................................................................................................... 947
Luan Përzhita, La transversale entre via Lissus-Naissus et via Egnatia (artère de
liaison des provinces de l’Adriatique et du Danube)..................................................... 955
Julian Bogdani, Caonia in Epiro. Il passaggio dalla communità tribale alla koinè
mediterranea in età ellenistica....................................................................................... 965
Neritan Ceka, Olgita Ceka, The treatment of public space in the preroman cities
of Southern Illyria and Epirus (vth-ist centuries B.C.).................................................... 977
Marie-Pierre Dausse, Les routes de l’Épire antique : quelles approches
possibles ?...................................................................................................................... 991
Manuel Fiedler, Gregor Döhner, Szilamér-Péter Pánczél, Babunjë : eine
spätarchaisch-klassische Kleinsiedlung zwischen Apollonia und Dyrrhachion
(Albanien).................................................................................................................... 1003
Enrico Giorgi, The cities and populations of Northern Epirus in the Roman era...... 1017
Lavdosh Jaupaj, Les théâtres dans les villes d’Illyrie méridionale et d’Épire............ 1029
Milena Melfi, Per Epirum. An alternative to the Adriatic. The territory of
Hadrianopolis and the Drino valley in the Greek and early Roman periods............... 1045
Nevila Molla, Urban settlements in medieval Epirus. An attempt to define the
later Byzantine polis.................................................................................................... 1055

Résumés des communications.................................................................................... 1067

Liste des participants..................................................................................................1113

Indices..........................................................................................................................1117
Index géographique et ethnique..............................................................................1119
Index des auteurs anciens........................................................................................ 1161
Index mythologique.................................................................................................. 1167
Index prosopographique........................................................................................... 1173

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L’Illyrie méridionale et l’Epire dans l'antiquité : actes

du VI colloque international de Tirana (20-23 mai 2015)
édités par Jean-Luc Lamboley, Luan Përzhita, Altin Skënderaj
Tiranë, ALSA, 2018.

Vol. 1, 434 f. ; 29.7 x 21 cm.

ISBN 978-9928-4517-1-2

1. Arkeologjia 2. Antikitete ilire 3. Konferenca 4. Shqipëri

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