starting with the glazed ceramic samples (fig. 0), the eight sherds from
lapithos were excavated at ayios loukas quarter and troias street, while the
lapithos ceramic tripod stilts samples (tr00-00) originate from archaeological
surface research in the same area. among the finds, the remains of a glazed pottery
kiln confirmed the existence of glazed pottery production during the medieval
period in the area of lapithos (papanikola-Bakirtzis 0000). the samples
from lapithos are dated between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ad and
their reddish-ochre ceramic bodies were fabricated using fine-grained wellcleaned
clay. the decoration consists of green, yellow, brown and orange glaze
colour on the interior and exterior ceramic surfaces, with sgraffito pattern on
the interior surface of the sherds (table 0).
the eight glazed sherds from Nicosia (see fig. 0), the majority of which are
datable to between the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the fourteenth
century, were excavated at the site of palaion demarcheion (violaris 0000) located
near the centre of the old city. the tripod stilts samples from Nicosia were
found during a rescue excavation at podocataro rampart. the ceramic bodies
of the glazed samples have a reddish-ochre colour, the only exception being the
whitish bodies of samples N0 and N0, while the macroscopic observation
showed that they were fabricated using fine-grained well-cleaned clay. their
decoration consists only of brown glaze, with the exception of sample N0, dated
to the sixteenth century, which consists of blue/light blue and white glaze, a
characteristic product of majolica glazed ware, and sample N0, dated to the sixteenth
century, with a glaze of green colour. No sgraffito decoration is detected
on the ceramic surface of the Nicosia samples. the glaze layer appears only on
the interior ceramic surface, with the exception once again of sample N0, which
has a glaze layer on both sides of the sherd.