Pottery and society in the ceramic Production centre of late Roman Delphi

Abstract

The archaeological site of Delphi, one of the first widely excavated in Greece, is identified in the collective subconscious only with the flourishing period of its oracle. touristguides, guide-books aimed to the wide public as well as the exhibition at the museum of Delphi1, all leave the visitors in the dark about other significant historical periods of the site, like the Late Roman period, insisting only on the moment of the decline of the oracle of apollo in the 4th century aD, which is, unfortunately, identified with the end of the city of Delphi itself.