residual ceramic data are enormous; even ceramic experts have difficulty
connecting the pottery with known sources and the results of classifica-
tion have not been easy to analyse with respect to historical events. This
complex picture has nevertheless been transformed by a range of scien-
tific analyses of fabrics and of clay sources, and also by a valuable re-
assessment of major known classes of pottery.^13 The vast majority of
eastern Mediterranean centres that produced wine and oil for export
seem to have had a rather restricted outreach. They were primarily
involved in satisfying demand within their own immediate regions
(Fig. 5.2). This remained true of most producers throughout the time-
scale under consideration here. A proportion of producing centres seems
to have made larger quantities of containers, but either there is no
recognizable pattern in the observable distributions, or consumption
was primarily regional. From an economic point of view, the regionally
focused patterns are consistent with an established tradition of
Fig. 5.2.Vineyard in the east Balkan region(^13) Lawall (2005) discusses problems of quantifyingamphorae; Lawall (2011) explores
the challenge of identifyingamphoracontents; Tzochev (forthcoming) and Panagou (forth-
coming) present recent work based on the archive of Virginia Grace in the American School
of Classical Studies, Athens, as well as a wide range of published data.
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