La ceràmica negra mat de Montbarbat

Abstract

At the Iberian settlement at Montbarbat (Lloret de Mar-Maçanet de la Selva) a type of wheel-turned ceramic distinguished by a matt black painted surface finishing is found. These cups, made from the same clay as that used for the wheel-turned ceramic, have several shapes but none of them are exclusive and tend to imitate the Pseudo-Jonia ceramic, the Black pottery, the Emporitan grey pottery or the common pottery. The matt black ceramic seems to be typical of the Girona region and the French coast at the Pyrenees. Its chronology, in the particular case of Montbarbat, comprises the fourth and beginning of the third century B.C.