Amphorae on the Roman Villa at Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi (San Gimignano-Siena-Italy)

Cavalieri, Marco;et.al.
(2011) Fourth International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry — Location: Thessalonique (7.April.2011)

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Since 2005 an Italian-Belgian mission, carried out by the Université catholique de Louvain, part of the international project “VII REGIO. Valdelsa during the Roman Age and late Antiquity” brought to light the monumental remains of a Roman villa, inhabited between the 4rd and the 5th century C.E., and abandoned in the period between the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 7th century C.E. The ruins of the representative part of the villa, altered in the 4th c., consist of a room with apses and an opus signinum floor with limestone tesserae mosaics, surrounded by a structure characterized by curvilinear walls. Between the 6th and the 7th century C.E. the remains of the structure were occupied by a group of people of clear Germanic origin with a consequent change in function. The space was parceled to host various workshops in which ceramics, iron and other materials were produced. In some of the re-adapted rooms structures for glass production can be recognized. The studies carried out also on the finds of commercial containers and Amphorae in particular. The main part of the Amphorae founded in the villa dates from the beginning of 4th century C.E., to the end of the 5th century A.D. Therefore the shapes (Keay XIIIa, Keay XXIII, Keay LII, Keay LXIIa etc.) show commercial contacts with Italia, Hispaniae and Africa and place the villa inside of the commercial trades on Mediterranean Sea.
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Cavalieri, M., & et al. (2011). Amphorae on the Roman Villa at Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi (San Gimignano-Siena-Italy). Fourth International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry, Thessalonique. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/61176