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AUTHOR
Ettore Maria Azzaro
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Characterisation of clayey raw materials for ceramic manufacture in ancient Sicily
2011
Abstract It is well known that mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses can successfully support provenance studies of archaeological ceramics. The characterisation of a ceramic paste, the assessment of its technology of production and its provenance assignment related to a specific production centre or to a geographical and/or compositional space, are all tasks that can be performed even more accurately if the clayey raw materials used in pottery production are also studied. For that reason the identification of the clay deposits exploited in a given ceramic workshop often plays a key role in the archaeometric reconstruction of the production cycle where geology, mineralogy, petro…
Roman quarries of the Iberian Peninsula: "Anasol" and "Anasol-type".
2007
The Iberian peninsula is rich in marble, both white and coloured, of excellent quality, used in the past (Pliny NH, XXXVI, II) and also at the present time as material for building and decoration. Many types of these marbles are similar to some, better known, Greek, Italian, Egyptian and Asian marbles. During the Roman Empire “ marmor carystium ” was extensively used. Taking into account the great similarity of this marble with the “ anasol ” and “ anasol ”-types mined in Spain and Portugal, this work presents a minero-petrographic, chemical and geochemical characterisation of these lithotypes, aiming at finding parameters to distinguish them from the better-known Greek and Italian “ cipoll…
Italica (Seville, Spain): use of local marble in Augustan age
2010
This study concerns 51 marble finds made of “Cipollino verde” coming from the ancient city of Italica (north of the modern city of Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain), the earliest Roman settlement in Spain, founded in 206 B.C. The aim of this work was to determine their provenance from Greek and Italian quarries or from local quarries worked in the Iberian Peninsula. Thin-section optical microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, bulk rock chemistry and O, C and Sr stable isotope analyses were carried out. Results were compared with literature data on “Cipollino verde” marbles quarried in southern Euboea (Greece), Apuan Alps (Italy), Almería, Extremoz, Seville (Spain) and Évora (Portugal). T…
Composizione chimica
2011
Un approccio integrato allo studio delle "argille ceramiche" della Sicilia Centrale e Occidentale
2011
Clayey materials used for ceramic manufacture in ancient Sicily
2009
Italica (Seville): use of local marble in Augustan Age
2004
Gis Geoarcheologico: applicazioni su insediamenti di età arcaica ubicati nella Sicilia occidentale
2008
Studio petrografico di macine protostoriche dai siti di Alorda Park e di Barranc de Galfos (Spagna)
2006
Questo studio rientra in un progetto di ricerca condotto in collaborazione con l’Equipé di Ricerca Archeometrica dell’Università di Barcellona (ERAUB), dipartimento di Preistoria, Storia Antica e Archeologica dell’Università di Barcellona (Spagna). Ha come oggetto la caratterizzazione mineralogico-petrografica e la determinazione di provenienza di macine dal VI al III secolo a.C. ritrovate in due parchi archeologici entrambi ubicati in Catalogna. L'interesse su questo genere di manufatti scaturisce da semplici considerazioni: • la produzione di macine implica l'acquisizione di nozioni tecnologiche (come la scelta dei parametri morfologici, e la ricerca dei materiali più adatti, etc.) che si…