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In archaeological research the existence of a pottery workshop of Archaic Samian decorated fine ware is controversial discussed, especially after the recent results from Miletus, which point to a special primacy of Milesian workshops. Up to now, there have been only insufficient chemical analyses of supposedly Samian and undoubtedly Samian pottery from Samos itself, which are of substantial importance to clarify this problem. The publication of the pottery found in the excavations of Hans Walter in the early layers of the Heraion of Samos by Wolf-Dietrich and Barbara Niemeier (Samos 21,2) was taken as an opportunity to carry out these analyses. Since the majority of the vessels in question are unique objects of high-quality that cannot be sampled with the invasive NAA method, the non-invasive pXRF method was chosen.
