The north African red slip ware and amphorae imported into early Byzantine Bosporus

Abstract

North African red slip ware and amphorae were widespread in the Mediterranean while they were imported to the Black Sea region in only small quantity. For a long time the Russian and Ukrainian researchers were processing and investigating pottery using only morphological features and excluding any study of fabric. As a result a lot of imported finds were not detected or were defined incorrectly. In the complexes of the Early Byzantine Bosporus the correlation of the amphorae of various Mediterranean and Black Sea production centres in the different chronological periods is still not exactly determined.