Home-baking in Roman Italy

Frayn, Joan M.

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“…8, p. 563), illustrate a domed oven with double walls between which flames circulated. Frayn (1978;, as we have seen, believes it to have been a portable oven used in wealthier households.…”

Section: Testa and Clibant The Literary Evidence (Alc)mentioning

confidence: 76%

“…XC,23), talking about the cooking of bread, says that (panem) primo cinis calidus etfervens testa percoxit, deinde furni paulatim reperti et alia genera quorum fervor serviret arbitrio ('At first bread was cooked by warm ashes and a hot tile; then ovens were gradually developed along with other devices, whose heat could be subject to regulation'), thus seeing a development of the second method from the first. The first involved placing the dough into the fire or hot embers wrapped perhaps in leaves (Frayn 1978). From this was derived the habit of using a tile (Ovid,.…”

Section: Testa and Clibant The Literary Evidence (Alc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a recent discussion based primarily on the literary sources but also employing archaeological evidence Joan Frayn (1978; identified five principal methods of baking in Roman Italy. The most primitive was baking in the ashes (Ovid,Fasti vi,, whereby bread was placed on leaves or pieces of tile set on a low hearth and covered by embers from the fire.…”

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confidence: 99%

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TestaandClibani: The Baking Covers of Classical Italy

Cubberley¹,

Lloyd²,

Roberts³

1988

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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TESTA E CLIBANI: LE TEGLIE DA FORNO NELL'ITALIA CLASSICAIn questo articolo si esaminano nel dettaglio due elementi di grande importanza nell'utensileria da cucina di epoca romana, il “testum” ed il “clibanus”. Le testimonianze letterarie suggeriscono per i termini “testum” e “clibanus” una forte sovrapposizione, tanto da far pensare. che essi definiscano in realtà il medesimo oggetto — la teglia da forno.Attingendo a recenti dati archeologici si può tentare di caratterizzare tipologicamente le teglie da forno in terracotta, ponendo in rilievo la loro forma estremamente tipica. Questo facilita l'identificazione di esempi da altri siti, spesso raggiunta attraverso il riordino del vasellame, ed indica il vastissimo uso delle teglie da forno in gran parte della penisola italiana, in tutti i contesti socioeconomici. Si propone qui una tipologia provvisoria fornita di riferimenti cronologici.Cambiamenti nelle forme e nelle dimensioni di questo tipo di vasellame sono posti in evidenza e discussi, così come si nota l'apparente declino che esso sembra aver subito, a partire dalla fine del I sec. d.C, in alcune aree geografiche. Il declino sembrerebbe almeno in parte essere stato causato da un accresciuto uso di oggetti di questo tipo in ceramica maggiormente raffinata.Si ricorda infine che nell'articolo vengono enumerati diversi potenziali terreni di applicazione dello studio delle teglie da forno.

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Section: Testa and Clibant The Literary Evidence (Alc)mentioning

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TestaandClibani: The Baking Covers of Classical Italy

Cubberley¹,

Lloyd²,

Roberts³

1988

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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“…We can conclude that the preserved oven is an elaborated form of oven, though it differs in several ways from other baker's ovens (Mau 1886;Frayn 1978;Mayeske 1979:40-41;Curtis 2001). Half a dolium (large storage vessel) was added to the domed smoke chamber, which created a double domed smoke chamber (Fig.…”

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confidence: 72%

White Light —White Heat: The use of Fire as a Light and Heat Source in an Atrium House in Roman Pompeii

Boman

2021

csa

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This article concerns the distribution of fire as light and heat source within the insula investigated by the ongoing Swedish Pompeii Project. Here the author suggests that fire installations as kitchens, ovens and baths were clustered in specific areas within this insula, and the installations were not efficiently used to heat the dwelling areas of the house. It is also proposed that the surfaces of the interior walls and floors of the Roman atrium house were polished in purpose to reflect and distribute light and, which is emphasised in the article, to soften the transition between brightly lit areas and areas in dark shadow. This contrast had to be eliminated for the human eye to adopt to the light conditions in the room and by that, to make the light as efficient as possible.

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“…Joan Frayn relaciona estas tapaderas de cocción con el método de panificación sub testu, citado por distintos autores clásicos y propio, según esta autora, de ámbitos domésticos rurales. Frente a este sistema rístico y familiar, los hornillos portátiles -como el clibanus o el thermospodium-eran más propios de casas acomodadas, tanto en ambientes rurales como urbanos, y el horno propiamente dicho -furnus-era el sistema de cocción estándar relacionado con la panadería indus- trial, apto para alimentar a las clases pobres urbanas y a los trabajadores de los grandes dominios rurales (FRAYN, 1978). Su funcionamiento es muy sencillo: sobre un montón de carbón encendido se coloca la campana hasta que se calienta, a continuación se levanta y se aparta rápidamente el carbón para colocar la masa sobre el suelo caliente y cubrirla con la tapadera, amontonando el carbón sobre ésta para mantener la temperatura y permitir que el pan se cueza.…”

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Panes, hogazas y fogones portátiles. Dos formas cerámicas destinadas a la cocción del pan en Al-Andalus: el hornillo (tannur) y el plato (tabag)

Lloret¹

1989

Lucentum

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En este trabajo pretendemos identificar diversos repertorios cerámicos aparecidos en contextos arqueológicos altomedievales rurales del levante peninsular, con dos sistemas portátiles de coción del pan -el hornillo o tannür y el plato o tábaq-mencionados en las fuentes literarias árabes, relacionándolos, en algunos casos, con objetos similares mencionados en las fuentes latinas y visigodas. Estudiamos también sus orígenes y perduraciones, pero mientras que el plato figura en las tradiciones tardorromanas de panificación, el hornillo, de tradición semita, parece ser introducido en al-Andalus con la conquista islámica.With this work we want to identify several pottery's series found in rural archaeological sequences of the Middle Ages beginning from the Eastern part of the Iberian Península with two portable methode for bread-baking -the portable furnace or tannür and the baking-plate or tábaq-cited in the literary Arabian sources, contrasting with similar objects quoted by Latin and visigothics sources. This study includes also their origin and perdurance but, whereas these baking-plate appear in the Late Román baking technology, the portable furnace was, apparently, introduced in al-Andalus with the Islamic conquest.

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Home-baking in Roman Italy

Abstract: Dr Joan M. Frayn was formerly Head of the Classics Department at Wimbledon High School (GPDST). She is at present engaged in making a study of subsistence farming in Italy in the Roman period.

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TestaandClibani: The Baking Covers of Classical Italy

TestaandClibani: The Baking Covers of Classical Italy

White Light —White Heat: The use of Fire as a Light and Heat Source in an Atrium House in Roman Pompeii

Panes, hogazas y fogones portátiles. Dos formas cerámicas destinadas a la cocción del pan en Al-Andalus: el hornillo (tannur) y el plato (tabag)

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