This ARC-funded project (2004-2009) focuses on the relations between the producer and the user of vases in antiquity. The research
will take into account various kinds of wares (common, cooking, fine...) made in different periods and areas of the ancient world
(New Kingdom Egypt, Archaic and Classical Greece, Roman Empire and Late Roman Near East). The aim is to improve our understanding
of pottery workshops (organisation, distribution, social and cultural aspects of ceramic production) through the comparison of
different study cases.