Pottery assemblage from Chhim, Lebanon

This assemblage includes data on ceramic material presented in Urszula Wicenciak's book From Sacred to Everyday. Common Wares and Amphorae from Chhim in the Sidon Hinterland (see below). Data on each fragment of vessel illustrated in the volume has been compiled into an excel file, making it easily searchable and sortable. The document will be updated in the future as not all data is available at this stage of the research.  

The volume From Sacred to Everyday. Common Wares and Amphorae from Chhim in the Sidon Hinterland is the outcome of intermittent studies on the archaeological pottery assemblage excavated from Chhim, an ancient village site in the mountains of central Lebanon. It is the first such comprehensive presentation of common wares and amphorae from the rural hinterland of Phoenicia in classical Antiquity and the Late Antique period.

Unbecoming at first glance, these ceramics, which are the fabric of everyday life, as well as Hellenistic Phoenician tableware, have told their own story. Presented in the cultural and economic context of central Phoenicia, taking into consideration local and regional histories, as well as evolving pottery-making traditions over time, these relatively modest vessels have mirror a dynamic transition of Chhim from an isolated, if hallowed, hilltop sanctuary to a pulsing production site, one of the biggest producers of olive oil in the Sidon hinterland, and subsequently to a deserted village sinking into oblivion.