Il Duomo Di Siena : : excavations and pottery below Siena Cathedral / / Gabriele Castiglia.

• Superior document: Archaeopress archaeology
• VerfasserIn: Castiglia, Gabriele,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (171 pages).

Presents excavation data and pottery finds from the stratigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between 2000-2003. The ultimate goal is to trace a view of the settlement types and economic framework that has affected the hill of the Cathedral from the Classical age to...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• _GoBack
• Foreword
• The missed opportunities of a town:
• Siena, excavations beneath the cathedral
• Premise
• The Excavation
• The cathedral hill from its origins to the Roman era
• Rhythms of the crisis
• The contextual recession between Late Antiquity
• and the Early Middle Ages
• The Early Middle Ages
• New forms of settlement and economic relations between the
• 6th and 10th centuries AD
• A Second Transition
• The rebirth of the context in the Middle Ages
• Pottery from the Excavation
• Introduction
• Coarse Ware
• Fine ware
• African Red Slip Ware (ARS)
• Red engobe ware
• Amphorae
• Lamps
• Sigillata Italica
• Maiolica Arcaica
• Glazed Ware
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Methodological notes and analysis of mixtures
• Bibliography
• Fig. I: Excavations and surveys in Siena
• Fig. II: Topographic identification of the excavation and the surveyed rooms.
• Fig. 1: GIS elaboration of the rooms investigated during the excavation.
• Fig. 2: Hypothetical topography of Siena during the Roman centuries (PALLECCHI 2006).
• Fig. 3: Topographic position of the well.
• Fig. 4: Well with animal deposits, and (right) a detail of one.
• Fig. 6: Two of the lamps (volute) found inside the well (1st century AD).
• Fig. 5: GIS elaboration of the animal entombents found in primary deposition inside the well (CAUSARANO 2009).
• Fig. 8: The semicircular wall, probably dating to the 4th century AD and its topographic position.
• Fig. 7: The structure with two apses identified below the Santa Maria della Scala (CANTINI 2005).
• Fig. 9: Pottery wares between 5th and 6th centuries AD, with the principal typologies.
• Fig. 10: A burial dating to the 5th century AD.
• Fig. 11: GIS elaboration of the grübenhaus and its topographic position.
• Fig. 12: The grübenhaus during its excavation and its 3D reconstruction.
• Fig. 13: Lamps found inside the grübenhaus (5th-6th century AD).
• Fig. 14: Bronze cloak pin from one of the burials (6th-7h century AD).
• Fig. 15: The two 12th-century siloi.
• Fig. 16: The apse linked to the 12th-century cathedral, attested by documents since 102 AD.
• Fig. 17: GIS elaboration of the documented phases of the cathedral (CAUSARANO 2005).
• Fig. 18: The two identified dump pits.
• Fig. 19: Pottery from the two dump pits. Drawing (below) of a jug with the emblem of the Opera del Duomo.
• Fig. 20: The arrows indicate the two bases serving as foundations
• Fig. 21: Fragments of mosaic found in secondary deposits, dating to 3rd-4th century AD (CHIESA 2012-2013).
• Fig. 22: GIS elaboration of the 15th-century loculi.
• Fig. 23: Detail of a burial inside one of the loculi, with an individual wearing a cape bearing the cross of the Order of the Knights of Malta.
• Fig. 24: Graphic showing the percentage level of residual materials over the centuries (CASTIGLIA 2012).
• Fig. 25:14th-century cooking vessel (olla).
• Fig. 26: 13th/14th-century cooking vessels (ollae).
• Fig. 27: Late 14th/15th century corse ware jug.
• Fig. 28: 15th-century fine ware moneybox.
• Fig. 29: 14th-century fine ware pitcher.
• Fig. 30: Red engobe ware production centres in Tuscany.
• Fig. 31: Circulation of amphorae directed to Siena in Late Antiquity.
• Fig. 32: Lamps 'a volute' from inside the votive well (1st century AD).
• Fig. 33: Lamps from the grübenhaus fill (5th-6th century).
• Fig. 34: Maiolica arcaica jugs. The left one bears the Opera del Duomo emblem.
• Fig. 35: Jug in monochrome Maiolica.
• Fig. 36: On the right a Maiolica arcaica sauce boat.
• Fig. 37: Glazed ware cooking pots (14th century AD).
• Fig. 38: Hypothetical plan of the defensive walls in Roman times.
• Fig. 39: Table and coarse wares from the 'Age of Transition' and the Early Middle Ages.
• Fig. 1a: Interface of the DBMS Carta Archeologica.
• Fig. 2a: Interface of the DBMS Carta Archeologica (Reperti container).
• Fig. 3a: Example of the Tabella quantificazioni (Quantification table).