Thin Walled Pottery Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

Il territorio meridionale dell'odierna regione italiana delle Marche sulla costa adriatica, a sud del fiume Esino, corrisponde alla regio V Picenum augu-stea (fig. ). L'area era precedentemente occupata dai Piceni, una popolazione italica attestata nelle Marche fin dal IX sec. a.C. e sottomessa dai Romani, già loro alleati, dopo una sollevazione, nel 269-268 a.C. 1 In seguito alla conquista, l'intero Piceno, eccetto Ancona ed Asculum che stipularono foedera divenne ager Romanus e i suoi abitanti ricevettero la civitas sine suffragio e poi optimo iure (241 a.C.) con l'iscrizione nella tribù Velina 2 . Nel cuore del territorio sottomesso fu fondata la colonia latina di Firmum Picenum, occupata nel 264 a.C. (Vell. Pat., I, 14, 8), a 320 m s.l.m. e a meno di 7 km dalla costa adriatica, in posizione strategica, sul suolo di un insediamento piceno di primaria importanza. Erede di essa è l'odierna città di Fermo (fig. ). Il territorium della colonia (fig. ) era compreso grosso modo in una fascia di 20 km delimitata dai fiumi Tenna a nord ed Aso a sud e sembra ricalcare una vasta porzione di un più ampio areale di età picena (esteso fra i fiumi Tenna a nord e Tronto a sud) definito sulla base di caratteri della cultura materiale, delle produzioni, del costume e della ritualità 3 . Qui la manizzazione, intesa come l'insieme delle forme e modi di integrazione delle comunità picene nello Stato romano, si dispiega quindi in forme complesse. In età picena, infatti, il popolamento era organizzato in una serie di centri maggiori e una rete strutturata di insediamenti minori con siti satellite; i centri principali, come Fermo, esercitavano attrazione sul circondario.

2025, FOLD&R FastiOnLine documents & research

2025, Rei Cretariæ Romanæ Favtorvm Acta 45. 30th Congress of Rei Cretariae Romanae Favtores. New perspectives on Roman pottery: regional patterns in a global Empire

Le ricerche condotte su attestazione e produzione di lucerne fittili nella Puglia antica hanno suggerito di procedere al censimento sistematico e al riesame critico anche di alcune raccolte di tradizione antiquaria. Qui si presentano i dati preliminari relativi all’instrumentum per l’illuminazione di età romana custodito nel Museo Archeologico Santa Scolastica di Bari (già Museo Archeologico Provinciale): 119 reperti, allo stato attuale sostanzialmente inediti. La prestigiosa collezione lychnologica (291 esemplari in totale) si è costituita dal XIX secolo grazie all’apporto di materiali rinvenuti nei comprensori barese e tarantino, legati generalmente a donazioni, a rinvenimenti casuali e soprattutto ad acquisti. Le lucerne considerate illustrano le manifatture meglio conosciute nel Meridione adriatico d’Italia tra l’età tardorepubblicana e il Tardoantico. L’importanza del contesto individuato e la varietà tipologica delle lucerne riscontrate (alcune risultano produzioni locali) garantiscono prospettive di interesse storico a questa indagine archeologica che è svolta con metodo tipo-cronologico e di
cui si rassegnano gli esiti preliminari.

2025, Potere e politica nell'età della famiglia teodosiana (395-455). I linguaggi dell'impero, le identità dei barbari

Urbanistica, economia e società a Egnazia tra la fine del IV e il V sec.

2025, FOLD&R. Fasti Online Documents & Research, Italy(557)

Some surveys made between the 60s and 90s in the area between Tarquinia and the coast, have allowed to reconstruct the transformations of the landscape from the protohistoric to the late imperial age. A recent excavation between 2014 and 2015 along the SS1 Aurelia, not far from Tarquinia (so called ‘Pidocchio’ area), unearthed an important kiln for the manufacture of ceramics, active between the end of the third and the first half of the second century BC. In particular, the kiln produced amphoras that could be added to the family of late Republican ‘ovoid amphorae’ (called Tarquinia 1-3) and some jugs and basins of coarse ware. This discovery provides new data on the territory of Tarquinia during the romanization and on the production still active in the area, it is possible to determine a new production of ‘ovoid amphorae’ in central Tyrrhenian Italy. Also, in Santa Severa and Torre Astura, have been identified kilns that produced amphorae morphologically similar to those of the ‘Pidocchio’ kiln in Tarquinia.There is no evidence for a settlement or a villa overlooking the economic activities of the kiln, so it is not possible to formulate any hypothesis on the ownership. Interesting the discovery of the inscription ANE - imprinted ante cocturam - on a loom weight found in the area of the kiln. The Ane family owns two tombs in the necropolis of Monteroz-zi, in particular in the so-called tomb ‘Querciola II’, dated to the first half of the second century BC.

2025, SCAENA, VI

O anfiteatro de Ammaia foi construído numa encosta da periferia noroeste desta cidade romana. Constitui um típico exemplo de edifício lúdico de pequena cidade provincial que, sem recurso a opus caementicium, se construiu tirando partido da topografia do terreno, por um lado, e erguendo
aterros, por outro. A sua edificação datará dos finais da dinastia júlio-cláudia ou época flávia e terá estado em uso até um momento tardio do século IV.
Abstract:
The Ammaia amphitheatre was built on a slope on the northwest suburbium of this Roman city. It constitutes a typical example of this type of building in a small provincial town that, without resorting to opus caementicium, was built taking advantage of the land topography, on the one hand, and building embankments, on the other. Its building dates to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty or Flavian era and was in use until late in the 4th century.

2025, HEROM. Journal on Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture

This paper focuses on the Hellenistic pottery from House VIIA in Akragas, in the recently discovered residential area in the south-eastern part of the settlement, just north of the Hill of the Temples, currently excavated by the Parco Archeologico della Valle dei Templi. House VIIA represents a remarkable case-study for the extensive investigation of the Early Hellenistic material culture of Akragas, until the mid-3rd century B.C.E. This paper thus deals with the following aspects: a) the archaeological excavations of the household; b) overview of the Early Hellenistic pottery and preliminary insight on its domestic functions; c) Akragas in the early Hellenistic period: material culture and transformations of the urban landscape.

2024, Quaderni Norensi 10

La grande piazza settentrionale nel settore dell’ex area militare di Nora, indagata a partire dal 2015 dall’Università di Cagliari, ha consentito di evidenziare la presenza di un ampio spazio pubblico monumentalizzato, con fasi di vita... more

2024, Conimbriga

Apresenta-se um conjunto de cerâmicas de paredes finas
de produção emeritense, provenientes de um contexto de
produção identificado na atual cidade de Mérida (Badajoz, Espanha), onde se situava a capital provincial da Lusitânia, Augusta Emerita, em época romana. Trata-se de uma produção cerâmica que desde 1975, quando foi publicado Les céramiques à parois fines dans la Péninsule Ibérique por F. Mayet, que não é alvo de um estudo aprofundado tanto a nível tipológico como cronológico. Pretende-se com este artigo dar um contributo para a revisão de algumas das formas constantes dessa publicação, bem como
dar a conhecer novas morfologias que foram identificadas a partir da análise artefactual deste mesmo contexto.

2024

Si presenta in questa sede una sintesi dei risultati emersi dalle campagne 2014-2015 del Pisa South Picenum Survey Project II, relativo alle alte valli dei fiumi Aso e Tenna, nelle Marche meridionali. Dalle ricognizioni intensive effettuate nel territorio comunale di Amandola (Provincia di FM) e emerso un fitto popolamento rurale costituito da piccole fattorie, databili a partire dalla fine del III sec.a.C., e posizionate all’interno di una griglia centuriale. Questo territorio, con tutta probabilita viritim adsignatus a seguito della lex de agro Gallico et Piceno viritim dividundo del 232 a.C., doveva avvalersi di un polo di aggregazione sociale e amministrativa ubicato nelle vicinanze e ben collegato alla viabilita principale. La posizione strategica, un’accurata analisi dell’assetto centuriale e numerosi rinvenimenti archeologici permettono di identificare questa praefectura nell’area dell’attuale Comunanza dove possiamo localizzare l’antica Novana citata da Plinio (N.H., III, 11...

2024, Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju, Vol. 41/1

U radu se donosi materijal koji pripada dvjema različitim epizodama iz osječke povijesti. Stariji nalazi kineskog porculana i kvarcne keramike iz islamskog svijeta s nekoliko pozicija u Tvrđi su iz 17.-18. stoljeća, kada su šalice, korištene za kavu i čaj, ušle u upotrebu i stizale iz raznih istočnih radionica. S druge strane, kasniji nalazi europskog porculana i kamenine iz Donjeg grada su uglavnom s početka 19. stoljeća, kada je proizvodnja porculana bila razvijena širom Europe kao i konzumacija kave odnosno čaja. Šalice i tanjurići su u plavo-bijelom stilu, pod kojim se podrazumijeva bijela pozadina, u našem slučaju tijelo posude, na kojoj se plavom bojom slikala dekoracija prije nanošenja prozirne glazure. Iako dubljih korijena, stil je populariziran širenjem južnokineskog porculana iz Jingdezhena, koji je utjecao na brojne proizvodnje diljem svijeta. KLJUČNE RIJEČI: Osijek, šalice za kavu, porculan, kvarcna keramika, kamenina The paper discusses material belonging to two different moments from the history of Osijek. Older finds of Chinese porcelain and Islamic stonepaste from several sites in Tvrđa are from the 17 th and 18 th centuries, when coffee and tea cups from various eastern workshops were introduced. On the other hand, later finds of European porcelain and creamware from the Downtown are mostly from the early 19 th century, when porcelain production and the consumption of coffee and tea were widespread all over Europe. The cups and saucers are in the blue-and-white style, which means that underglaze blue decoration is painted on their white body. This style has deeper roots, but it gained popularity due to the spread of southern Chinese porcelain from Jingdezhen, which had a significant impact on production all over the world.

2024

Augustianis (present-day Traismauer) is a key Roman site in modern-day Lower Austria and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment).” Established initially as an auxiliary fort between the 1st and 5th c. AD, an adjacent vicus (settlement) developed in time with several workshops where ceramics were produced. While imported goods confirm Augustianis’ integration into broader Roman trade, the lack of studies on local coarse ware suggests an untapped research area.
Following this, this research aimed to reconstruct the production process of the local coarse and to identify local and regional trade wherein Augustianis was imbedded. First, a range of jars, flagons, bowls, and plates were identified typo-morphologically among the waste of two 4th or possibly 5th c. AD kilns, excavated in 1976 by Alois Gattringer. Second, a total of 50 samples were selected for ceramic thin section petrography, and their composition was compared with the local geology, in order to reconstruct the technology adopted by Roman potters. Third, the results were compared with studies on coarse ware from other Roman sites along the Danube River, including Mautern and Carnuntum, to gain insight Augustianis’ role in local and regional trade.

2024

Hasta Regia is one of the main archaeological sites in the region of Bajo Guadalquivir. This arti-cle aims to analyze and understand current conditions on the site based on recent archaeological works, which have focused on conservation... more

2024, Amphorae ex Hispania : paisajes de producción y consumo: III Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios de la Cerámica Antigua (SECAH) - Ex Officina Hispana (Tarragona, 10-13 de diciembre de 2014, Ramón Járrega Domínguez coord.; Piero Berni Millet (aut.), 2016, ISBN 978-84-942034-6-6, pp....

1Con el presente artículo se busca dar a conocer el proyecto de investigación La cerámica de paredes finas en Galicia, presentando un breve estado de la cuestión, con Iria Flavia (Padrón, A Coruña) como
ejemplo de estudio. Si bien el hilo conductor de la presente investigación está destinado al estudio de una tipología en concreto, el objetivo no será el de elaborar un catálogo de formas al uso, ya que para esta tipología contamos con multitud de estudios y publicaciones de alta calidad y desde diversas zonas geográficas. La finalidad que se persigue es realizar
un estudio de esta producción en su contexto, en la medida que la información proporcionada desde las memorias de excavación nos lo permitan. Solo mediante el estudio contextual podremos exprimir la
información necesaria para dar respuesta a nuestras preguntas acerca de los patrones cerámicos, cronologías, amortización de producciones, fenómenos de imitación local, asimilación en los focos indígenas y, en consecuencia, las dinámicas comerciales. De este modo la metodología seguida para el estudio de las cerámicas de paredes finas combina el análisis morfotipológico con los datos que se puedan extraer del contexto arqueológico y su relación con otras producciones.

2024, Ex Officina Hispana. Cuadernos de la SECAH. Ejemplar dedicado a: Cerámica antigua en el noroeste peninsular. R. Bartolomé Abraira (coord.) ISSN 2255-5560, Nº. 4, pp. 83-110

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un primer acercamiento al estudio de la cerámica de paredes finas en el Conventus Lucensis. Para ello se partirá de la casuística que ofrecen diversos yacimientos gallegos situados dentro de este límite territorial: Iria Flavia, Brigantium, Cidadela y una primera selección de intervenciones urbanas en Lucus Augusti. Estamos ante cuatro enclaves de diversa funcionalidad, asentamiento secundario, puerto marítimo, campamento romano y la propia capital
del conventus, por lo que se espera obtener un primer esbozo de la dinámica comercial y de abastecimiento de estos productos al extremo noroeste de la península. Este primer análisis global pretende dibujar una primera aproximación al consumo de las cerámicas de paredes finas en el territorio gallego, su abastecimiento, redes de transporte, demanda local de este producto e incluso posibles fenómenos de adaptación.

2024, Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World Sessions 11–12 – Single Contributions Poster Session Martin Bentz Michael Heinzelmann (Eds.) / 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Cologne/Bonn

Through this article, we aim to expose the results obtained in the research carried out on the LXVII form of López Mullor, documented among the material repertoire coming from several interventions of high Imperial chronology of Augusta Emerita (Badajoz, Spain). For this, we have studied the productive capacity of some potteries and their connection with landfills, focusing on the production of thin-walled pottery, both traditional
own forms addressed by Mayet, and imitations made in this type of pasta in that city. But we wanted to emphasize the problems arising around the origin of this previously mentioned ceramic manufacture, entering into the dilemma as to whether its origin is local, or on the contrary, its production center is located in another geographic point of the Lusitania, although its dispersion reached the capital and its surroundings.

2024, LOS CURSOS FLUVIALES EN HISPANIA, VÍAS DE COMERCIO CERÁMICO Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de la SECAH (Zaragoza, 2022) Monografías EX OFFICINA HISPANA 6

The city of Pollentia founded in 123 BC has a long tradition of research and of dissemination of the results. This city became, in Roman times, one of the main urban centres of the Balearic Islands, being a central point of the commercial dyna-mics in the western Mediterranean. Excavations developed in 2018 at the Late Antique Fortification of the forum revealed the presence of older elements beneath the filling of this defensive structure. Among these, a negative structure (UE 9783), an ap-parent septic tank, was detected. This contribution presents a preliminary ceramic study of some of the materials of one of the filling units (UE 9804) of this cesspool, which contained a very high number of ceramic fragments of different classes, dated to the Augustean period, where the relative chronological uniformity is striking

2024, SOMA

Thin-walled pottery is an underrepresented class in the Salento peninsula, but the study of the materials found in the waters of Torre Santa Sabina, near Brindisi in southern Apulia, has allowed for an expansion of knowledge and the definition of two groups of this ceramic. It has been established that a first group consists of objects that were part of the cargo of a Late Republicans' shipwreck. The characteristic shapes are the olletta, known in the bibliography as a beaker, and the two handled cup; the repertoire is inspired by the Tyrrhenian, although it is plausible to propose a production from the Taranto area. The second group consists of cups, in grey gloss, which refer to early Imperial Adriatic productions. The relevance of these to another wreck is still under discussion. On the basis of these data, a study of the presence of such pots in several wrecks and an in-depth study of materials found in Torre Santa Sabina bay’s, in in relation to finds in the Ionian-Adriatic area has therefore been initiated.

2024

Some surveys made between the 60s and 90s in the area between Tarquinia and the coast, have allowed to reconstruct the transformations of the landscape from the protohistoric to the late imperial age. A recent excavation between 2014 and 2015 along the SS1 Aurelia, not far from Tarquinia (so called 'Pidocchio' area), unearthed an important kiln for the manufacture of ceramics, active between the end of the third and the first half of the second century BC. In particular, the kiln produced amphoras that could be added to the family of late Republican 'ovoid amphorae' (called Tarquinia 1-3) and some jugs and basins of coarse ware. This discovery provides new data on the territory of Tarquinia during the romanization and on the production still active in the area, it is possible to determine a new production of 'ovoid amphorae' in central Tyrrhenian Italy. Also, in Santa Severa and Torre Astura, have been identified kilns that produced amphorae morphologically similar to those of the 'Pidocchio' kiln in Tarquinia.There is no evidence for a settlement or a villa overlooking the economic activities of the kiln, so it is not possible to formulate any hypothesis on the ownership. Interesting the discovery of the inscription ANE-imprinted ante cocturam-on a loom weight found in the area of the kiln. The Ane family owns two tombs in the necropolis of Monterozzi, in particular in the so-called tomb 'Querciola II', dated to the first half of the second century BC.

2024, Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu

2023, Cuadernos de prehistoria y arqueología

As campanhas de escavação realizadas durante a última década em Monte Molião (Lagos, Portugal) têm permitido aduzir dados importantes para o conhecimento da ocupação romana do sul do território actualmente português. Neste trabalho, é apresentado o conjunto de cerâmica de paredes finas exumado no sítio. Trata-se de produções com origem sobretudo na Península Itálica e no sul da Hispânia, abarcando uma cronologia se estende desde os finais do século II a.C. até ao século II d.C. Os contextos de recolha e, portanto, as associações de materiais permitiram analisar a evolução formal desta categoria cerâmica e discutir as morfologias em função do faseamento já definido para o sítio.

2023, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Archaeological excavations carried out in the sites of Rione Terra and Via Fascione in Pozzuoli (ancient Puteoli, Italy) unearthed samples of Red Slip Ware attributed to Terra Sigillata from Puteoli and Produzione A della Baia di Napoli, which are among the most important ceramic classes produced in Campania region and circulating in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BCE. Archaeometric analyses performed on twenty-one samples highlighted that stylistic and typological features are connected to technological ones, permitting to clearly distinguish the two different productions. The samples of Terra Sigillata showed fine-grained ceramic bodies, high-CaO content (on average 15.6 wt%), abundant microfossils along with quartz, feldspar and micas. The thin red slip, present on both inner and outer surfaces, appears sintered and well preserved. Sintering degree and mineralogical assemblages suggest that the artefacts experienced high firing temperatures (often exceeding 900°C). On the other hand, the Produzione A samples contain a lower micro-fossils amount and rare volcanic grains. The vessels are covered by a thinner and non-sintered red slip compared to that of Terra Sigillata. Mineralogy and microstructures of the ceramic bodies also suggested lower firing temperatures (850-900°C). Then, the technology and the exploited clayey raw material were different in the production areas probably highlighting different cultural influences as well as different commercial paths. Finally, the comparison with available data on italic Red Slip Ware allowed us to find some key-parameter for discerning the most important production areas.

2023, in R. Martorelli (a cura di), Know the sea to live the sea Conoscere il mare per vivere il mare, Atti del Convegno (Cagliari, 7-9 Marzo 2019)

In questo contributo si prende in esame la “ceramica polita a stecca” o più semplicemente steccata. Si tratta, probabilmente, di materiali prodotti nell’area campidanese, in quanto sono stati documentati principalmente nella Sardegna meridionale. I vasi presentano un comune trattamento delle superfici con impasti ben depurati, di colore variabile dall’arancio, al beige, al rossiccio. Le decorazioni steccate, ottenute con un oggetto duro e smussato, vanno a coprire le pareti esterne e spesso, nel caso delle forme aperte, anche quelle interne. I motivi sono generalmente geometrici e si riconoscono linee verticali, orizzontali, zig-zag. Gli scavi condotti presso i siti cagliaritani di Sant’Eulalia, Vico III Lanusei e Via Caprera hanno permesso di riconoscere una vasta gamma di tipi morfologici datati tra il IV-VII secolo d.C. Allo stato attuale della ricerca, risulta ancora complicato individuare analogie con le steccate peninsulari. I paralleli più prossimi sono ipoteticamente da ricercare, non tanto nei contesti italiani, quanto
in quelli nord-africani. Questo testimonierebbe il perdurare di importanti e floridi rapporti commerciali con il territorio africano.

2023

Materiali e ricerche è una collana di olumi, monogra ci o miscellanei, che si articola in due sezioni L , F L Comitato scienti co

2023, Estudis sobre ceràmica i arqueologia de l'arquitectura

2023, FOLD&R Italy Series, 557

Some surveys made between the 60s and 90s in the area between Tarquinia and the coast, have allowed to reconstruct the transformations of the landscape from the protohistoric to the late imperial age. A recent excavation between 2014 and 2015 along the SS1 Aurelia, not far from Tarquinia (so called 'Pidocchio' area), unearthed an important kiln for the manufacture of ceramics, active between the end of the third and the first half of the second century BC. In particular, the kiln produced amphoras that could be added to the family of late Republican 'ovoid amphorae' (called Tarquinia 1-3) and some jugs and basins of coarse ware. This discovery provides new data on the territory of Tarquinia during the romanization and on the production still active in the area, it is possible to determine a new production of 'ovoid amphorae' in central Tyrrhenian Italy. Also, in Santa Severa and Torre Astura, have been identified kilns that produced amphorae morphologically similar to those of the 'Pidocchio' kiln in Tarquinia.There is no evidence for a settlement or a villa overlooking the economic activities of the kiln, so it is not possible to formulate any hypothesis on the ownership. Interesting the discovery of the inscription ANE-imprinted ante cocturam-on a loom weight found in the area of the kiln. The Ane family owns two tombs in the necropolis of Monterozzi, in particular in the so-called tomb 'Querciola II', dated to the first half of the second century BC.

2023, Ephemeris Napocensis

Large scale rescue excavations in the former Barracks area in present-day Osijek (Mursa) in eastern Croatia yielded important Late La Tène and Roman finds. Thin-walled pottery, terra sigillata and amphorae point to a flourishing 1 st c. AD phase of the Roman settlement, especially from the middle of the century until the Flavian era. Amphorae present a small percentage in the recovered pottery, among them dominate those of type Dressel 6B with two stamped pieces. Other types are less common and correspond to the usual type assemblage of other contemporary sites in the region. Since the Dressel 6B type is usually associated with the distribution of olive oil but also to the movements of the Roman army, these examples are used as an opportunity to discuss possible final recipients of the recovered vessels and reflect on the frequency of stamps during the 1 st c. AD in Pannonian amphorae samples.

2023, Onoba. Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad

2023, Dissertationes Archaeologicae 3.10.

Brigetio, along the Danube limes, was one of the four legionary bases of Pannonia
and, thus, one of the most important settlements of the province. The last excavation season so
far, conducted by the Eötvös Loránd University and the Klapka György Museum of Komárom,
was in 2016. The finds from previous years have been published year by year from 2010. This
paper presents a catalogue and evaluation of the finds of the last, 2016, excavation campaign.

2023

Il presente contributo comprende la relazione della campagna di scavo 2009-10 alle Terme Pallottino a Porto Torres nell’ambito del Progetto Bubastis. I lavori si sono concentrati all’interno dei vani termali, messi in luce da Pallottino negli anni Quaranta, e sul versante sud ed est della collina. Gli scavi hanno portato alla luce ambienti termali e abitativi, una strada secondaria, diverse vasche per la raccolta idrica e alcune sepolture tarde relative alla fase di abbandono dell’area. Si propone inoltre l’analisi di un lotto di materiali ceramici afferenti alle due campagne di scavo e appartenenti a una classe definita ceramica fiammata

2023, Dissertationes Archaeologicae

Brigetio, along the Danube limes, was one of the four legionary bases of Pannonia and, thus, one of the most important settlements of the province. The last excavation season so far, conducted by the Eötvös Loránd University and the Klapka György Museum of Komárom, was in 2016. The finds from previous years have been published year by year from 2010. This paper presents a catalogue and evaluation of the finds of the last, 2016, excavation campaign.

2023

Archeologia urbana a Cagliari. Scavi a Sant'Eulalia

2023, South Gaulish sigillata in Southwest Hispania: circulation and consumption

The Mainz internet database of Names on Terra Sigillata (samian ware), Portugal and Spain and the collaborative samian research network

2023

The paper provides some information on the Berlin databank of chemical analyses of Italian Sigillata. The problems connected with the attribution of chemical data to the reference group of Arezzo are discussed using the titanium and magnesium contents as an example. Besides the reliability of the reference group these problems are precision and accuracy of the data and chemical changes during burial of the sherds in different soils. Analysis of a large series of stamped Sigillata from sites in the northern provinces yielded some unexpected results. It was nothing new that the same names as Ateius, Gellius or Sentius appeared in different provenance groups. Mostly this correlates with different types of stamp, indicated by different OCK numbers but in a few cases even similar variants of the same type of a stamp did not come from the same workshop, if we define a workshop by the use of only one type of raw material with the same chemical composition.

2023

2023, Prilozi Instituta Za Arheologiju U Zagrebu

Visoka dunavska obala kod Iloka koji se smjestio na zapadnim obroncima Fruške gore bila je kontinuirano naseljena tijekom svih razdoblja prapovijesti, zatim, kako to pokazuju ovdje opisani nalazi, u antici, da bi najveći uspon Ilok dosegnuo u kasnom srednjem vijeku u vrijeme Nikole Iločkoga i njegova sina Lovre. Zbog potrebe za obnovom i revitalizacijom iločkoga Gornjega grada koji predstavlja jedan od najznačajnijih i najsačuvanijih ostataka spomeničkoga graditeljskoga naslijeđa ne samo na tlu sjeverne Hrvatske, već i na prostoru srednjoeuropskoga Podunavlja, na baroknom dvorcu Odescalchi započelo se s konzervatorskim istraživanjima koja su otkrila dobro očuvane ostatke kasnosrednjovjekovnoga dvora Iločkih. Sustavna arheološka istraživanja počela su 2001. godine koja bi, uz primarno otkrivanje srednjovjekovne graditeljske baštine, upotpunila i dosadašnje spoznaje o prapovijesnome te antičkome materijalnome naslijeđu U istraživanjima kasnosrednjovjekovnoga dvora knezova Iločkih pronađena je raznovrsna antička materijalna ostavština koja obogaćuje dosadašnje skromne spoznaje o Cucciumu i limesu u hrvatskome Podunavlju. U iskopavanjima 2002. godine otkriven je paljevinski grob s drvenom arhitekturom u kojem su se nalazili prilozi dvojakoga podrijetla. Autohtono podrijetlo u latenskoj kulturi mlađega željeznoga doba pokazuju lonci zaobljenoga tijela izrađeni rukom i zdjela S-profilacije. Sjevernoitalskoga podrijetla su zdjelica tankih stijenki, keramička svjetiljka, staklena posuda te ostali prilozi koji zajedno s Klaudijevim novcem datiraju grob u sredinu 1. st. Na osnovi nalaza posuda izrađenih u latenskim tradicijama pretpostavlja se kako je u grobu bila pokopana osoba starosjedilačkoga podrijetla, dok importirani prilozi svjedoče o ranoj romanizaciji južne Panonije i dunavskoga limesa. O postojanju složenoga pogrebnoga rituala svjedoče izdvojeni ostaci kultiviranih biljaka domaćega i uvoznoga podrijetla koje su bile položene u lonce.

2023, Sagumtum, 41

HACIA UNA SISTEMATIZACIÓN DE LA PRODUC-CIÓN GALA EN SUELO EMERITENSE La producción gala es una de las grandes desconocidas en suelo emeritense. Los estudios realizados hasta ahora documentan pocas formas, reduciéndose a las Drag 15/17, 18, En el presente trabajo se plantea una valoración del comercio galo en Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Badajoz, España) a partir del análisis de unas cien piezas de terra sigillata gálica localizadas en una reciente intervención arqueológica.

2023, Cerámicas HIspanorromanas II

En el presente trabajo valoramos la producción local de cerámicas comunes en Augusta Emerita en época altoimperial. Para este periodo se observa una evolución diacrónica de la producción y consumo cerámico bastante claro en la ciudad que... more

2023

2022, Ophiussa

RESUMO: O sítio arqueológico de Monte dos Castelinhos é uma fundação de raiz, datada dos momentos
finais do período romano republicano. Recentes trabalhos de escavação revelaram uma importante fase
de renovação urbanística do sítio, com cronologias de inícios do Principado de Augusto, revelando um
inegável cariz urbano. Tendo como intuito a publicação sistemática do conjunto de evidências materiais
associados a este conjunto urbanístico, pretende-se com este trabalho iniciar o estudo do conjunto de
ânforas exumadas, apresentando o conjunto de contentores de fundo plano do Tipo Urceus.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Povoamento; Urbanismo; Romano; Economia; Ânforas.
ABSTRACT: The archeological site of Monte dos Castelinhos corresponds to a foundation from scratch,
dating from the final moments of the roman republican period. Recent excavation work has revealed an
important phase of urban renewal at the site, with chronologies of the beginnings of the Principality of
Augustus, revealing an undeniable urban character. With the aim of systematically publishing the set of
material evidence associated with this urban set, we intend with this work to start the study of the group of
amphorae, presenting the flat-bottomed amphorae of the Urceus Type.
KEYWORDS: Settlement; Urbanism; Roman; Economy; Amphoras

2022, La Tomba di Aiodda e il patrimonio archeologico del Comune di Nurallao

Following a survey and review of the archaeological materials recovered in the territory of Nurallao (CA) and stored in the museum warehouse, this work is an analysis of the data obtained after a first examination of the finds. This, along with a careful archival research, despite the lack of both stratigraphic data and geolocation of the places of discovery, retraces with some effectiveness the occupation history of this territory. Due to the lack of verified data, we feel confident in extending the analysis to a wider area, including the Nuragus and Isili territories, which provided fragments of experienced history barely noticeable until now.
The picture emerging is that of a hard-working population that since prehistoric times traded goods, adorned their settlements and excelled in manufacture of clay artifacts, exploiting to the fullest the resources that the area offered. Although in small quantities, there is some evidence of pre-Nuragic presence, while more abundant are the artifacts dating to the Nuragic Age. In Punic times, North African products were traded as luxury goods along with imported Attic-style pottery. Roman settlements are present with farms, workshops and baths, with trade proven by numismatic evidence until the Vandalic Age. In this scenario lacking any Medieval finds, the remaining archaeological evidence pertains to the Post-Medieval age, with local and imported potsherds.

2022

La ricerca ha riguardato lo studio della ceramica a vernice nera di età ellenistica, proveniente dall'abitato di Elea-Velia. Il campione ceramico esaminato, utilizzando come strumento il modello tipologico Morel, ha restituito un repertorio formale articolato. L'analisi formale è stata corredata dalla classificazione autoptica dei corpi ceramici, utile alla valutazione delle aree di provenienza dei reperti. La definizione cronotipologica dei materiali analizzati e l'analisi dei più diretti confronti formali hanno offerto diverse possibilità ricostruttive in merito alle trasformazioni morfologico-funzionali del repertorio ceramico e della circolazione dei modelli formali degli atelier locali rispetto a quelli magnogreci coevi, e, talvolta greci

2022, Periodico Di Mineralogia

The ancient town of Allifae (modern Alife) represents one of the most interesting settlements of the Northern Campania area and together with the ancient city of Cales , was a thriving production centre of pottery. Excavations carried out inside the city wall, near the south gate, the so called, Porta Fiume, unearthed a huge dump of thin-walled ware, where the most abundant forms were cups and beakers, decorated with grooves or rouletting. The dump has been dated late Augustan/Tiberian age and the thin-walled vessels found can be identified with similar wares from Allifae, Cubulteria, Caiatia and perhaps Neapolis. Horace in his Sermones (II, 8,39) cited the Allifana beakers (described as fictiles ac subtiles by a Horace scholiast) and they could possibly be identified with the thin-walled wares produced in Allifae. If this the case, then the thin-walled vessels produced in Allifae were known in Rome as early as the end of I century B.C. In order to investigate and characterize the A...

2022, Quaderni Norensi

La trincea II aperta a sud dell’edificio a est del foro ha messo in luce l’ampio tratto viario che, prendendo le mosse dal foro romano, serviva il settore orientale della penisola norense. Lo scavo stratigrafico ha consentito di... more

2022, en Viegas, Catarina & Bustamante-Álvarez, Macarena (eds.), South Gaulish sigillata in Southwest Hispania. Circulation and Consumption. Estudos & Memórias, 18. Lisboa: UNIARQ - Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa

Terra Sigillata Gálica del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida.

2022, Roads and rivers, pots and potters in Pannonia - Interactions, analogies and differences

Mursa excavated dozens of well-defined archaeological sites (contexts) from the 2nd and 3rd centuries in the last twenty years. Some contexts have origins defined within several decades. The collected material makes Mursa one of the best sites in Pannonia to study 2nd-century Roman material culture. Considering that many finds of Pannonian slipped ware (PSW) derived from such stratigraphic units from the late 1st century to the 3rd century, Mursa is currently one of the best sites for research on PSW. Pottery study showed that the PSW in Mursa derives from two “production lines”. One production line relies on the forms taken from imported terra sigillata. The production line includes all those products not shaped in the forms of the terra sigillata model. Both production lines last from the second half of the 1st century to the 3rd century. The pottery study from Mursa did not yet reveal the exact chronological stages of PSW development; still, both production lines show certain chronological regularities. This paper outlines future research for both production lines and PSW typology.