A General Evaluation of the Hellenistic Pottery from Myra and Andriake

The Hellenistic pottery found in Myra and its port of Andriake are the subject of the study. The article examines pottery of this period such as two-handled cups, mouldmade relief bowls, West Slope wares, a kantharoid skyphos, rolled rim plates, a mortarium, a brazier, a thymiaterion, an unguentarium, ointment or medicine bottles and terracotta lamps. The pottery of the Hellenistic period was used in the city and its port between the third quarter of the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC. The most intensive use of ceramics dates back to the 2nd and 1st centuries BC.