The Faragola Ceramic Collection: Ceramic Production,Consumption and Exchange in Seventh‐Century Apulia |
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Authors: | E. Gliozzo G. Scrima M. Turchiano I. Turbanti Memmi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, , Siena, 53100 Italy;2. Department of Humanities, University of Foggia, , Foggia, 71121 Italy |
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Abstract: | A collection of 30 ceramic samples, 16 of coarse wares and 14 of fine painted wares, have been investigated by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and neutron activation analysis. Further samples of clayey sediments, both locally outcropping and found within the settling tank, have been submitted to the same analytical techniques for comparison with the ceramic collection. The results demonstrated that local clayey sediments were used as received for the production of coarse wares. The same raw materials were sieved and/or refined by decantation for the production of fine painted wares, which, in fact, provided results that were perfectly comparable with those for the clayey raw materials found within the settling tank. The Faragola productions were distinguished from the neighbouring Apulian productions according to petrographic features (the presence of leucite‐bearing volcanic rocks and Mn‐rich wads) and their bulk chemical composition. |
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Keywords: | coarse and fine painted ware ICP– MS ICP– OES INAA OM SEM– EDS SEVENTH century AD chemistry mineralogy and petrography |
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