UNCW professor leading Roman Pottery Studies at Greek excavation site

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A UNCW Associate Professor of Art History has been tapped to lead the studies of Roman-period pottery from the new excavations in the Athenian Agora.

Doctor Nicholas Hudson will lead the studies of the Roman pottery found in the Agora of Athens in Greece.

“Pottery is the most common archaeological artifact at ancient sites in the Mediterranean, which makes it a valuable tool for archaeological interpretation,” Hudson said. 

Hudson has worked on archaeological projects in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece to discover ways in which pottery was used during the Roman Empire.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Hudson will use the vast body of work at the Athenian Agora to examine changing patterns of culinary traditions and social dining practices over the 600-year course of the Roman Empire.

His work will begin this summer.