Studi e ricerche di ceramologia romana in Sicilia. Un aggiornamento e qualche focus (original) (raw)
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in D. Malfitana – J. Poblome – J. Lund, Old Pottery in a New century. Innovating Perspectives on Roman Pottery Studies. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Catania 22-24 aprile 2004. Monografia dell’Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali, 1, Catania 2006, 399-421
Il contributo affronta problemi di natura metodologica per la ricostruzione degli aspetti legati all'archeologia delle produzione nella Sicilia ellenistica, romana e tardo-romana. Partendo da una rilettura dei dati sinora editi, il contributo vuol tracciare chiare linee di azione su cui indirizzare la ricerca ceramologica sulla Sicilia ellenistica e romana finora sin troppo sottovalutata a vantaggio di altre produzioni artigianali. Un approccio multidisciplinare evidenzia la necessità di aprire specifiche linee di azione in cui archeologia e archeometria dialoghino sempre più per la soluzione di problemi e obiettivi comuni.
The IBAM-CNR team has recently conducted a comprehensive research program aimed at studying the dynamics of production , distribution and consumption of roman and byzantine pottery in eastern Sicily, in particular around the ancient city of Catania. The research was also focused on the archaeological site of Santa Venera al Pozzo, near Catania, placed along the roman Via Pompeia. During last decade, three pottery kilns and many wasters were identified and dated between the 4 th and 5 th century AD. Recently, archaeometric analysis have established that the kilns produced the Mid Roman 1A–B amphorae, in addition to common pottery and roofing tiles. Between 2015 and 2016, the IBAM team conducted an extensive geophysical research program (Ground Penetrating Radar, Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Magnetometry) in order to identify and define the late roman workshop area. The surveys have led to the possible identification of other four kilns in the same area. It was, therefore, a very important production center which made a large volume of ceramics and amphorae for the export of Etna wine. It supplied a wide area of eastern Sicily and carried amphorae around the Mediterranean and Europe.
LRCW 4. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean, ed. by N. Poulou-Papadimitriou, E. Nodarou, V. Kilikoglou, 2014
Focus of this paper is the assemblage of Late Antique and Byzantine Cooking wares from the rural settlement of Cignana, near Agrigento. Until the middle of seventh century, Pantellerian ware dominated but from the middle of 6th century, other productions, e.g. the so called “Micaceous Ware”, arrived at Cignana. In late byzantine layers some pots and lids were produced in a calcitic black fabric.
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The contribution wants to focus the attention of archaeologists, pottery experts, archaeometry experts in implementing a new “research policy” for the activation of research projects involving different actors in a deep and fruitful collaboration(i.e.Universities, Research Institutes, Museums etc). This path analysis will illustrate some case studies undertaken by CNR - IBAM in Sicily during the recent years.