Roman Pottery Kilns of Hispania

Abstract: The digging season carried out in 2003 in the site
of Los Villares-Montealto allowed for the open area excavation
of a substantial manufacturing quarter dating to the Early
Roman Empire. It was the pottery workshop known in the literature as Rabatún, after the estate on the hillside of Cerro de Montealto, of which only amphorae of the Beltrán II B type
were previously known, due to the sporadic nature of finds. The excavation of the site uncovered features corresponding to two production phases, producing amphorae of the Dressel 9/10 and Dressel 10B types (first phase) and Beltrán IIB type (second phase), along with other coarse wares. According
to the fine table wares found, the first phase must date
to the first half of the 1st Century A. D., whereas the second
would fall in the late 1st and the first half of the 2nd century A.
D. It is possible that the workshop remained active in a different location within the estate of Los Villares in the second half of the 2nd century A. D., engaged in the production of amphorae of the evolved Beltrán II B and Puerto Real 1 types.

Key words: Roman pottery workshop, amphorae, coarse
wares, bricks, tegulae.

We propose an architectural and functional restitution of the Vila-sec ceramic workshop (Ager Tarraconensis). We also propose figures for the production capacity and distribution of the load - especially for Dr. 2 amphorae type-, from the calculation of the internal volume of the laboratory of some of the identified kilns.
And we present presents a new reading of the seals identified during archaeological excavation, using a method that uses silicone molds.

En esta comunicación se exponen algunos de los problemas que tiene planteado el estudio de los talleres cerámicos de la Citerior, entre otros el de la diferenciación de algunos hornos ibéricos o iberorromanos, analizados en profundidad en el estudio posterior de Fontscaldes.

En este trabajo se aborda por primera vez el estudio de los hornos llamados "ibéricos" de planta cuadrangular, para señalar sus diferencias fundamentales con los hornos de tradición ibérica , su cronología republicana y su probable origen itálico.

(Nueva reproducción en color.)