Pagan twilight at Kalapodi: Two pottery assemblages of the third and fourth centuries A.D.

Abstract This paper presents two pottery assemblages from the 2015–2016 excavations carried out by the DAI Athens at the sanctuary of Kalapodi/Abae in eastern Phocis. Assemblage 1 represents material of the middle to later part of the 3^rd century A.D. from contexts related to the use of the buildings constructed above the Hellenistic/Early Roman tile kilns (trench ZW). Assemblage 2 represents a deposit recovered from underneath a layer of collapsed masonry and roof tiles in trench NW1, where the excavations brought evidence of several phases reaching back to the Hellenistic period. The pottery finds, combined with the stratigraphic and numismatic evidence, suggest a closing date for the deposit in the third quarter of the 4^th century A.D. The two assemblages provide information about the range of pottery wares at the sanctuary during an important, but little known period of its functional history.

Keywords Kalapodi, Roman Imperial period, Late antiquity, pottery, supply patterns