Abstract
International audience Tableware of Zeuxippus Ware type is a priori one of the best-known categories of Byzantine pottery. Very widely disseminated throughout the territories of the Byzantine empire and also the entire Mediterranean and the Black Sea at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, it currently serves as a 'marker' of archaeological levels for this period. In recent years, the large increase in the finds and the difficulties involved in assigning them to the original group have revealed the limitations of the typology established in 1968 by A.H.S. Megaw. It also seemed necessary to reconsider this group from the point of view of chemical analyses of the fabric, which make it possible to assemble vases corresponding to a single production on a sounder basis. This large-scale study intends to clarify the matter by considering the typological and stylistic characteristics in parallel with the chemical and mineralogical compositions of the fabric of a large sample of Zeuxippus Ware, and also in comparison with samples of local production from selectedsites across the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea.