Ceramic Thin Section Characterisation of Mid-Republican cooking jars from a rural site at Ciampino, Rome

Borgers, Barbara

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“…Following this, most jars were regional products, which were manufactured in the Alban Hills or in the Tiber Valley region, respectively. Both compositions were traded widely, given that: Coarse ware jars from petrogroup 1 were found on sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198), and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 ); Coarse ware jars from petrogroup 3 were found on various sites in Rome (Thierrin-Michael 2003 ; Schuring 1986 , 1987 ), and its suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 ). Jars with this composition have also been found in Northern Italy (Peña 1992 ; Olcese 1990 ) …”

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“…Coarse ware jars from petrogroup 1 were found on sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198), and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 );…”

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“…In the third stage, the compositional groups of the fourth–first centuries BCE coarse ware defined in this study were compared with published work on coarse ware from various sites in Rome and its suburbs (Schuring 1986 , 1987 ; Olcese 2003 ; Thierrin-Michael 2003 ; Borgers and Fischetti 2023 ), from Ostia (Capelli 2016 ), and from Rome’s rural hinterland (Borgers et al 2017 , 2018 ), to understand whether the surroundings of Norba were integrated into the same regional production and trade networks.…”

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“…Other archaeometric studies have focused on the reconstruction of regional trade networks of coarse ware from Rome, its suburbs, and its rural hinterland, and they indicated that three main productions circulated in the area during the Roman Republic and Early Imperial eras: Coarse ware with coarse-grained K-feldspar and quartz was distributed on various sites in Rome and Ostia (Schuring 1986 , 1987 ; Thierrin-Michael 2003 ), as well as in the Pontine region, ca. 60 km south of Rome (Borgers et al 2017 ); Coarse ware with coarse-grained leucite has been identified on settlement sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198) and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 ); Local coarse ware with coarse-grained rounded quartz, K-feldspar, and clinopyroxene from Satricum appears to have been distributed locally in the Pontine region (Borgers et al 2017 ). …”

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“…Coarse ware with coarse-grained leucite has been identified on settlement sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198) and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 );…”

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Roman Republican coarse ware from Norba, Southern Lazio (Italy): a multi-analytical study of production technology and trade

Borgers,

Ionescu,

Gál

et al. 2023

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The first objective of this paper is to reconstruct the production technology of fourth–first centuries BCE coarse ware from surveys near the ancient town of Norba in the Lepini Mountains of Southern Lazio, Italy, adopting a multi-analytical method, combining macroscopic observation with polarised light optical microscopy (OM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The second objective of this study is to gain insight into Norba’s integration in broader production and distribution networks in Southern Lazio between the fourth–first centuries BCE, by comparing the results with previous data for coarse ware prevalent in the region at that time. The results indicate that the coarse ware from Norba was produced with Fe-rich, Ca-poor, and illite-muscovite clays and fired in an oxidising atmosphere between 750 and 900 °C. Differences among the coarse ware exist in the paste recipes, e.g. intentionally added temper. Most coarse ware from Norba bears compositional similarities to that from the Alban Hills and the Tiber Valley, north of Rome, suggesting that Norba was integrated into the marketing of pottery that was common in Southern Lazio during the fourth–first centuries BCE. In comparison, only a few coarse wares seem to have been produced in the surrounding area (e.g. Satricum and Forum Appii), or even locally in Norba. The results further indicate changes in these regional/local distribution networks; some coarse ware seems to have been imported from Satricum, where a workshop was active during the fourth century BCE. When ceramic production at Satricum ceased, potters settled in the towns of Forum Appii and Norba, where they produced ceramic building material and fine ware in the second–first centuries BCE, respectively. The results of this study tentatively suggest that potters in these locations may have also manufactured coarse ware during this period.

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“…Coarse ware jars from petrogroup 1 were found on sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198), and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 );…”

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“…Coarse ware with coarse-grained leucite has been identified on settlement sites in Ostia (Capelli 2016 : 196–198) and in Rome’s suburbs (Borgers and Fischetti 2023 );…”

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