Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by
the Butrint Foundation from 2002-2007. Lying just to the south of the
ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300
year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century
AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint
but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing
political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the
Mediterranean World over this period. Volume III discusses the Roman and
Late Antique pottery from the Vrina Plain excavations. This detailed
study of the ceramics follows the archaeological sequence recovered from
the excavations in chronological order and provides a comprehensive and
in depth review of the pottery, context by context, offering an
important insight into the supply, as well as typology, of local and
imported pottery available to the inhabitants of the Vrina Plain during
this period. This is followed by a discussion on how the pottery trends
found on the Vrina Plain relate to that of other sites in Butrint, both
within the town (Triconch Palace; the Forum) and outside (Vrina Plain
training school villa excavations; the villa of Diaporit). The volume
also presents an overview of some of the principal typological
developments found across Butrint so as to allow the reader to place the
Vrina finds in context, including a discussion of a number of key
contexts from the Forum, as well as the findings from thin-section
petrology of some of the ceramics.
