The industrial quarter of Selinunte. The potters workshop in Insula S16/17

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Martin Bentz
• Subject Area: Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology
• Term: from 2010 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 172849452

The greek colony of Selinunte was founded in 628 BC and destroyed in 409 BC by the Carthaginians who then settled only in a part of the earlier town; the site was finally abandoned in 250 BC.The city planning, the temples, the defensive system and the agora previous research programmes examined. This project investigates the industrial quarter discovered by geophysical prospection; it focuses on an extended pottery workshop of the 6th-5th centuries BC. Part of the streets, the confining city wall and the workshop with five kilns and a small domestic sanctuary were uncovered in 2010-2012.The main objective of this second phase of the project is the architectural structure of the workshop and the reconstruction of the working process and the products made here. This will enable it to analyse an entire workshop of the archaic/classical period for the first time.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Participating Person: Professor Dr. Jon Albers