Greek and Roman Pottery from Sphakia, South-West Crete: From the White Mountains to the Deep Blue Sea...

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Jane E Francis

Greek and Roman Pottery from Sphakia, South-West Crete

From the White Mountains to the Deep Blue Sea

Jane E Francis

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English

Casemate Publishers
30 September 2025

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

This volume presents the Greek and Roman pottery collected and analyzed by the Sphakia Survey project and provides a ceramic model for a large section of western Crete, where ceramic traditions, both domestic and imported, are little known. This research integrates two approaches. It first presents a morphological and functional study of a body of pottery from a sizable part of Crete with little known archaeological evidence. Second, fabric analysis identifies and defines clays and clay mixtures, with macroscopic and petrographic analyses providing results from two perspectives. The rigorous application of fabric analysis, combined with the morphological examination, contribute to reconstructions of sites and areas within Sphakia. This data provides information about the history of individual sites, but then more broadly about that of Sphakia itself. Elements like site chronology, activities undertaken in particular areas, available landscape resources and their exploitation, and contact within the region, with other parts of Crete, and the wider Greek and Roman worlds are explored.

AUTHOR: Jane E. Francis is a professor of Classical Archaeology at Concordia University in Montreal. She completed her PhD at Bryn Mawr College. Her main research interests focus on the material evidence of the Roman period on Crete, especially pottery and beekeeping. She has studied and published pottery from excavations and surveys on Crete, including Sphakia, Skoteino Cave, and Khavania.

350 b/w illustrations

By: Jane E Francis
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888570500
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Evidence for Graeco-Roman Sphakia 3. Pottery Analysis 4. The Pottery: Tablewares 5. The Pottery: Household and Cooking Vessels 6. The Pottery: Transport Amphorae 7. The Pottery: Miscellaneous Groups 8. Sphakia in the Greek Period 9. Sphakia in the Roman Period 10. Conclusions Appendices 1. Concordance of Catalogue Numbers 2. Site Concordance Bibliography

Jane E. Francis is a professor of Classical Archaeology at Concordia University in Montreal. She completed her PhD at Bryn Mawr College. Her main research interests focus on the material evidence of the Roman period on Crete, especially the pottery and beekeeping. She has studied and published pottery from excavations and surveys on Crete, including Sphakia, Skoteino Cave, and Khavania.