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African Red Slip Ware, Late Roman East, Michel Bonifay, Late Roman Economy, ICRATES Project

Abstract:

Following a brief introduction, this paper is intended to assess the impact of Michel Bonifay’s Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d’Afrique (2004) on ceramological studies in the Roman East and, more specifically, on the aims and methodology of the ICRATES Project housed at the Catholic University of Leuven. His revision of part of the typo-chronological framework of African Red Slip Ware (hereafter ARS) as originally laid down by J. W. Hayes in 1972 and 1980, in particular, is prone to affect the interpretation of the collected evidence for ARS in the Roman East. This collected evidence for ARS will be presented and considered based on Hayes’ original typo-chronological framework, on the one hand, and by combining those of Hayes and Bonifay, on the other. we conclude by discussing some methodological and interpretative issues.