LRFW 1. Late Roman Fine Wares. Solving problems of typology and chronology. A review of the evidence, debate and new contexts edited by Miguel Ángel Cau, Paul Reynolds and Michel Bonifay Archaeopress 2012, page 57-65 A note on the development of Cypriot Late Roman D forms 2 and 9 Paul Reynolds* * Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)/Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica, Universitat de Barcelona (ERAAUB) Montalegre 6-8, 08001 Barcelona, Spain <
[email protected]> The development and evolution of LRD 2 into LRD 9 through the 5th to 7th centuries is traced and illustrated through a revision of the evidence presented in Late Roman Pottery (Hayes 1972) and finds from new contexts excavated in Beirut. KEYWORDS: LATE ROMAN D (LRD), FORM 2, FORM 9, BEIRUT, AD 551 1. Introduction see Jones Hall 2004). It is precisely the second quarter of the 6th century that the transition from LRD 2 to 9 can John Hayes, in his typology of Cypriot Red Slip Ware/Late be observed. This paper aims toAccess illustrate the development Roman D (hence LRD), proposed that dish form 9 (dated proposed by Hayes, now that more contexts of the mid c. 550 to the end of the 7th century) was the direct successor 6th century are available. Fine wares from Beirut contexts of form 2 (beginning ‘around 450’), the latter being that have been used as supporting evidence for this paper modelled on the African Red Slip form 84 (1972: 373-376, are presented elsewhere in this volume (Reynolds, Beirut 379-382). His research in the eastern Mediterranean at the contexts, in this volume).