Evaluation of the technological features of Late Roman cooking ware classes from Akrai (Syracuse, Sicily)
Part of : Mediterranean archaeology & archaeometry : international journal ; Vol.16, No.3, 2016, pages 171-183
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171-183
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In this work, a provenance and technological investigation on cooking-ware potteries from the ancient Greek -Roman town of Akrai (Palazzolo Acreide, Syracuse, Sicily) has proposed. A multi-methodological approach have been used to study the manufacture quality of analysed materials; in detail, petrographic, mineralogical, spectroscopic, chemical, porosimetric and micro-morphological analyses have been applied. The study provides fundamental contribute in archeological issues related to circulation in Sicily of cookingware productions during Late Roman Age; in fact, the obtained results allow to recognize in the site the presence of different well-known cooking-ware Roman productions, highlighting interesting questions about the technological and manufacture properties of this class of materials.
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archaeometry, Akrai (Sicily); Cooking pottery; Late Roman; Pantelleria ware
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