Casiglia This book is the result of the processing of the excavaion data and of the potery coming from the straigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between August 2000 and May 2003 by the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of the University of Siena, with the scieniic coordinaion of Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. Marco Valeni and the collaboraion of the Opera del Duomo di Siena. Il Duomo di Siena: Il Duomo di Siena: Excavations and pottery below the Siena Cathedral Excavations and pottery below the Siena Cathedral Gabriele Casiglia Archaeopress Archaeology Cover template.indd 1 28/04/2014 14:29:41 Il Duomo di Siena: Excavations and Pottery below Siena Cathedral Gabriele Castiglia Archaeopress Archaeology Archaeopress Gordon House 276 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED www.archaeopress.com ISBN 978 1 905739 74 5 © Archaeopress and G Castiglia 2014 All rights reserved. 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Printed in England by CMP (UK) Ltd Oxford This book is available direct from Archaeopress or from our website www.archaeopress.com Contents Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 The missed opportunities of a town: Siena, excavations beneath the cathedral ............................................................ 1 Premise ................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 The Excavation ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 The cathedral hill from its origins to the Roman era...................................................................................................... 9 Rhythms of the crisis: The contextual recession between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages........................ 13 The Early Middle Ages: new forms of settlement and economic relations between the 6th and 10th centuries AD .. 15 A Second Transition: The rebirth of the context in the Middle Ages ........................................................................... 18 Pottery from the Excavation ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Coarse Ware ................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Fine ware ...................................................................................................................................................................... 62 African Red Slip Ware (ARS) ...................................................................................................................................... 74 Red engobe ware .......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Amphorae ..................................................................................................................................................................... 86 Lamps ........................................................................................................................................................................... 96 Sigillata Italica .......................................................................................................................................................... 100 Maiolica Arcaica ........................................................................................................................................................ 106 Glazed Ware ............................................................................................................................................................... 114 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................................................... 116 Appendix .......................................................................................................................................................................... 123 Methodological notes and analysis of mixtures ......................................................................................................... 123 Bibliography ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 142 i