The ceramics of Selinunt and its context

在过去的几十年里，在D. Mertens对Selinunt集市的挖掘中，发现了大量的古代陶器和金属物品。Holger baiitinger对这些金属物体进行了研究并发表了文章。到目前为止，对陶瓷的研究还不充分。该项目的结果将使人们第一次了解公元前7至5世纪西西里岛希腊殖民地当地陶瓷的起源和生产。在这里，我们可以看到在城市建立后不久就开始的城市本身的生产，以及它所在地区的生产。另一方面，还有大量来自地中海各地的进口，比如爱奥尼亚陶瓷，母城Megara Hyblaea的陶瓷，来自伊特鲁里亚和普unique地区。此外，挖掘还揭示了各种各样的形式：琵琶、运输用双耳罐、餐具，后者可以进口，也可以是当地生产的。此外，还有陶俑和织布机砝码。这次挖掘提供了一些非常重要的结果，让我们可以追溯到第一批真正的建筑开始建造之前的最早时期。这些发现将使我们对早期城镇的社会形态有更深入的了解。第一批定居者和他们的妻子的来历以及他们与周边地区的关系。除了集市，Selinunt的其他地点也将被考虑在内。结合建筑物和其他物品的遗迹，对不同类型陶瓷的分析将使我们对日常生活和商业历史的不同方面有更深入的了解。

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.