Ceramic typology of the Middle Ages was exhibited for the first time by Heritage Malta over the weekend.
The national agency organised an exhibition called Core and Periphery: Mdina and Safi in the ninth and tenth centuries at the Safi local council’s premises to mark Safi Day.
The exhibition builds on another held at the National Museum of Archaeology, in Valletta, and includes some of the results obtained from two rescue archaeological excavations in Mdina in 2008 and Safi in 2015. Both excavations yielded precious archaeological information about Malta’s Dark Ages, a period of dramatic historical change that saw the end of Byzantine domination and the arrival of the Arabs on the island.
The ceramic typology for these periods was presented for the first time as a way of introducing a wider discussion about society and the economy of Malta in the ninth and 10th centuries.
In particular, the exhibition focused on the differences between urban and rural life in the period.