The ceramics of Selinunt and its context

在过去的几十年里，在D·默滕斯对塞林努特古城的挖掘中，发现了大量的古代陶器和金属物品。霍尔格·贝廷格对这些金属物体进行了研究并发表了论文。到目前为止，陶瓷材料还没有得到充分的研究。这个项目的结果将使人们第一次了解当地陶瓷的起源和生产，从7日到5日在西西里岛的一个希腊殖民地。公元前。在这里，我们发现了小镇本身的生产，它在建立后不久就开始了，以及它所在地区的生产。另一方面，有大量从地中海各地的不同地方进口的陶瓷，如爱奥尼亚陶瓷，母城Megara Hyblaea的陶瓷，来自伊特鲁里亚和皮尼克地区的陶瓷。此外，发掘还揭示了各种各样的形式：壁画、运输两用具、餐具，其中餐具可以进口或本地生产。此外，还有陶俑和织机重物。这次发掘提供了一些非常重要的结果，使我们可以追溯到殖民地最早的时间，即第一座真正的建筑开始建造之前。这些发现将使我们对早期城镇的社会形态有更深的了解。第一批定居者和他们的妻子的出生地，以及与周围地区的关系。除了阿戈拉，塞林努特的其他遗址也将被考虑在内。结合建筑和其他物品的遗迹，对不同类型的陶瓷的分析将使我们更深入地了解日常生活，以及商业历史的不同方面。

Over the last decades, during excavation of the agora of Selinunt by D. Mertens, a great amount of ancient pottery and metal objects have been found. These metal objects have been studied and published by Holger Baitinger. Till now the ceramics have not been fully studied. The results of this project will allow for the first time an understanding of the genesis and production of local ceramics in a Greek colony in Sicily from the 7th to the 5th cent. BC. Here we find the production in the town itself which started very soon after its foundation as well as the production from its region. On the other hand there is a large quantity of imports from different places of all over the Mediterranean like Ionian ceramics, ceramics of the mother city Megara Hyblaea, from Etruria and the punique area. In addition the excavation brought to light a huge diversity of forms: pithoi, amphoras of transport, tablewares, in which latter can be imported or of local production. Furthermore there are terracotta figurines and loom weights. The excavation offers some very important results which allow going back in the earliest time of the colony before the construction of the first real buildings started. The finds will bring us to a deeper understanding of the social formation of the early town, eg. for the provenance of the first settlers and their wives and for the relations to the surrounding areas. Apart from the agora, other sites of Selinunt will be taken in consideration. Together with the remains of the buildings and other items, the analysis of the different types of ceramics will lead us to a deeper understanding of daily life, and also of the history of commerce with its different aspects.