Kyme eolica nel III secolo d.C.: nuovi dati sulle ceramiche fini

Throughout the activities of MAIKE during the 2013 campaign, the work of the University of Naples “Federico II” équipe was focused on the pottery from saggio 1 in the Area XX of the city of Kyme. The assemblage of fine wares is rather notable and among them there are two remarkable items: first of all, the absolute preeminence of ESC (fully in line with the self-consumption trend already well clarified for kymean market); then, the significant percentage of fragments datable to the middle imperial period (the so-called ‘Late ESC’), among which is remarkable the Pergamon plate H2, dated to Severian. These new data brought new light on Kyme during the 3rd century C.E. and stimulated a new survey on the Late ESC yet published from the aeolic city. The main aim of this paper is searching, for the kymean context, further tangible ‘visions’ on a traditionally dark period for the Pars Orientis.