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Anders Lindahl

Anders Lindahl

Professor emeritus

Anders Lindahl

The San Giovenale pottery : production and raw material

Author

  • Anders Lindahl
  • Embaie Ferrow
  • Daniel Fuglesang
  • Pia Sköld

Summary, in English

San Giovenale is a small inland Etruscan community approximately 60 km north of Rome. The site was excavated between 1956 and 1965 and the focus of the research has been aimed at the archaic period as well as the proto- Villanova period. The Late Etruscan period has up to now been more or less neglected. This resent work is to a large extent based on pottery and one cornerstone of the study is the belief that a majority of this Late Etruscan pottery is locally produced, not only the coarse ware but also the simpler tableware such as Late Creamware. One possible way to verify the hypotheses of a local production is by comparing the raw material components of the coarse ware and the tableware as well as clay deposits around the San Giovenale site. Very little of this kind of combined work between clay surveying, laboratory analyses of clays and pottery (thin-section analyses, thermal analyses, XRF-analyses, Carbon analyse and Mössbauerspectroscopy) and traditional studies of vessel shape, decoration and vessel function has previously been done on the small Etruscan inland settlements.

Department/s

  • Department of Geology
  • Lithosphere and Biosphere Science
  • Classical archaeology and ancient history
  • Quaternary Sciences

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

89-103

Publication/Series

British Archaeological Reports - International Series

Volume

1509

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

British Archaeological Reports (BAR)

Topic

  • Geology

Keywords

  • clay analysis
  • thin-section analyses
  • Late Creamware
  • Etruscan pottery
  • San Giovenale
  • Mössbauer-spectroscopy
  • Ceramics

Status

Published

Research group

  • Laboratory for Ceramic Research

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0143-3067