A group of local ceramics production from laodikeia ad lycum: lycos skyphoi

Red slip potteries that reached all points of the Empire became a characteristic of Roman Imperial world beginning from 2nd century B.C. In the mean, the regional workshops had been manufactured various productive activities with their own means. A group of pottery mentioned in this article, which have similar production technic and decoration concept with relief vases of Hellenistic Period, have been started to seen mostly cities of Lycos/Çürüksu Valley. The only used form in the group was skyphos around from 1st century B.C to 1st century A.D. Although moulds was only found a few cities excluding Lycos Valley, numerous numbers of skyphoi and their moulds were found during excavations and surveys of valley and it proved that the regional production and named as “Lycos Skyphoi”