The Fabrics of the Area of Carthage: The reference samples considered to be representative for the pottery production of Punic Carthage have been selected on the basis of the empiric experience of the present author who has worked on the ceramic finds yielded by several settlement excavations ...

The Pottery Production of Punic Carthage: The archaeological research conducted over the last thirty years has given clear evidence for the existence of a local pottery production at Carthage from its earliest occupation period onwards, that is to say from the second half of the eighth century B.C.E. As an excellent example of the presence of high percentages of locally produced ceramics (handmade ware, plain ware, red slip- and bichrome ware and amphorae), already in deposits of the second half of the eighth century B.C.E., one might mention a stratified archaeological sequence yielded by the recent excavations of the Ghent University/Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) in trench 4 of Bir Messaouda.