Gunneweg, Jan, 1982, The Origin of Eastern Terra Sigillata-A and Hayes' "Cypriote Sigillata",Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum, Acta XXIII-XXIV (Studien zur roemischen Keramik), Muenchen, 111-115 A distinct class of Late Hellenistic and Early Roman red-, brown- and black-slipped pottery with a light or dark buff fabric, eastern terra sigillata-I (ETS-I, with regard to its chemical composition), was, in 1980, traced by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) to eastern Cyprus. INAA, performed in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University's Archaeometry Unit and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, showed that the entire ETS-I repertory came from the Enkomi/Salamis district in eastern Cyprus--today Famagusta. ETS-I is not the same ware as "ESA" described by the late Dame Kathleen Kenyon. ESA has either a buff or a pink fabric, whereas ETS-I has a buff paste. Therefore, ESA consists actually of two different classes of sigillata ware. After chemical analysis by INAA, the pink ware analyzed differently from the buff ware. Therefore, the chemical composition of the buff ware was named Eastern Terra Sigillata-I (hence ETS-I). Comments? Please write: Jan Gunneweg To return, click Archaeometry abstracts of our work or click "BACK" or click the Homepage . Jan Gunneweg Ph.D., The Hebrew University, revised November 2005