Archeologia del commercio e archeologia del consumo a Napoli nella tarda età imperiale : uno studio archeometrico e storico-economico del vasellame

The project aims to analyze pottery circulation and consumption in Naples within a limited chronological range, from the end of the 4th century to the first half of the 5th century AD. The analysis focuses on different levels of circulation: the micro-scale, the regional scale and the Mediterranean basin. The study also investigated pottery functions and the patterns of daily life. The evidence was provided by three different archaeological contexts: the Girolomini context, close to the city forum, the former monastery of Santa Patrizia, and Piazza Bovio, recently excavated during the construction of Naples underground transport. The analysis of the pottery was based not only on a traditional morpho-typological approach, but it was integrated with macroscopic classification of fabrics and archaeometrical analysis. Both minero-petrographical and chemical analysis were performed aiming to characterize the most important fabrics occurring in the ceramic assemblages.