L’atelier céramique d’Oued el Akarit (Tunisie)

We present here the typological and archaeometric/petrographic characterization of the production of the pottery workshop of Oued el Akarit, Southern Tunisia, following a new survey of the site. This workshop mainly produced during the 4th century four amphora types (Africana I B, Africana II D, Keay 25.1-2, and perhaps late variants of type Dressel 2/4), together with cooking wares (B and CB, but also imitations of categories A and AC typical of Northern Tunisia) and coarse wares. Despite the presence of abundant kiln wasters, which seem to exclude the presence of imports, the petrographic analysis showed heterogeneous fabrics, even inside each class, which could be explained with the use of different raw materials and production techniques in several workshops/kilns relatively scattered in time and/or space.