POTTERY ASSEMBLAGES FROM PRIVATE HOUSES OF THE LATE 1ST CENTURY BC AT LEUKAS, NORTHWESTERN GREECE

Manuel Fiedler

The 12th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities excavated private Greek houses in ancient Leukas, which were abandoned after the battle of Aktion in 31 BC and the subsequent foundation of Nikopolis.

In one of the houses the household 'inventory' of the last habitation level is preserved. The pottery includes a wide variety of fine and plain wares which existed in approximately equal amounts (about 40% in each case), and cooking wares (about 20%). The fine wares can be divided into traditional Greek Black Gloss pottery, terra sigillata and sigillata imitations. Although most of the sigillata occurs in ESA shapes, western products were also present in the household, including a Sarius-beaker probably from the Sarius Surus workshop. Italic influences are also indicated by Thin-walled beakers as well as some other plain and cooking vessels.

The distribution of all kinds of pottery and small finds illustrates different domestic activities in the several rooms of this 'middle-class-house'.

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