Djilma – an important ARS production centre in central Tunisia. An assessment of late Antique forms and stamped decoration, fabric and chemical analyses by WD-XRF
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https://doi.org/10.32028/rcrf-acta-48-pp.239-250Keywords:
African red slip ware, production centre, Henchir el Guellal near Djilma, Athens-Agora, long distance trade, late AntiquityAbstract
Djilma is one of the two most important production centres of African red slip ware vessel forms and lamps in central Tunisia. It produced African red slip ware (ARS) and lamps from the early 3rd century to the mid-5th century in a characteristic fabric (Atlante 1981: fabric E). Long-distance trade to the eastern and western Mediterranean distributed the standard vessel forms of ARS. They can be identified at the Athenian Agora as well. The range of late Antique forms and typical stamped decoration (Hayes style B) from a survey at Henchir el Guellal near Djilma in 1991 is decisively supplementing the preliminary results of the British-Tunisian survey carried out in 1984/85. Additionally, a specific reference group of chemical analyses by WD-XRF of ARS and lamps from Djilma carried out by G. Schneider (Berlin) and M. Daszkiewicz (Warszawa) is presented.
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