Cooking Ware of the Western Balkan production on the Northern Black Sea Area
The excavations of Chersonese, Mangup, Bosporos, and Phanagoreia have uncovered a small group of cooking ware with “combed decoration.” Its exact parallels are in the provinces of Dardania and Prevalis where this pottery seems to have been produced. To the Northern Black Sea Are, the ware in question is most likely to have been brought by the expatriates from the western area of the Balkan Peninsula, who formed a part of the military contingent that was intended to defend the Byzantine Empire's northern frontier.