Pottery Summary cont.

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Locus 12

Coarseware:

Rims

Drawings

No diagnostic bases, handles, tondos

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Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Handles

Tondos

Drawings

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Fine Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Tondos

Drawings

Bucchero: No bucchero

Locus 13

Coarseware

Rims

Drawings

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225

Bases

Handles

Drawings

No tondos

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227

Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Drawings

228

229

Handles

Tondos

Drawings

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231

Fine Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Handles

Drawings

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233

Tondos

Drawings

Bucchero:

Rims

Bases

Drawings

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235

Handles

Tondos

Drawings

Locus 14

Coarseware:

Rims

Drawings

No bases, handles, tondos

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237

Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Drawings

No handles or tondos

Fine Impasto:

Rims

Tondos

Drawings

No bases, handles

Bucchero:

Rims

Drawings

No bases, handles, tondos

No diagnostic pottery for Loci 15 , 16

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Baulk Trim

Coarseware:

Rims

Bases

Handles

Drawings

No tondos

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241

Impasto:

Rims

Bases

Handles

Tondos

Drawings

Fine Impasto:

Rims

Drawings

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243

Tondos

Drawings

No bases, handles

Bucchero:

Rims

Handles

Tondos

Drawings

No bases

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Pottery Analysis

In the 2008 excavation season, T-48 yielded a great deal of pottery. In all loci, with the exception of Locus 15, impasto was by far the most common type of pottery recovered. In addition, a fair amount of coarseware and a large amount of fine impasto were found in T-48. Furthermore, although it is the least common pottery type, a relatively large amount of bucchero was found in T-48 this season; the amount of bucchero recovered in 2008 (938 sherds, 11.90% of the total amount of pottery found) is significantly more than the amount found in the 2007 season (34 sherds, 1.25% of the total amount of pottery found).

Virtually all of the pottery found in T-48 this season came from Loci 11 , 12 , and 13 . For the purposes of pottery analysis here, Loci 11 and 12 will be conflated, for these soils are identical; Loci 11 and 12 are two separate loci only because Locus 12 existed in an area of the trench where a sounding was conducted at the end of the 2007 season. Loci 11 and 12 were comprised of a brown, claylike, extremely mottled soil that contained many inclusions of rock, carbon, and terracotta. The soil in fact appears red due to the high quantity of terracotta inclusions. Approximately 18% of all pottery found in T-48 this season was recovered from these

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two loci. Both loci contained mostly impasto, although a fair amount of both coarseware and fine impasto was recovered from each of these two loci, although bucchero was found only in Locus 11 . Notably, in both Loci 11 and 12 , many large pithoi fragments were found, including some large, flaring rims. Based on the projected diameter of these rims, these pithoi would have had diameters of approximately 40cm.

By far, the vast majority of the pottery found this season was recovered from Locus 13 , which was a claylike, very dark gray, carbon rich soil. Locus 13 contained vast quantities of pottery, as well as bone and metal, although hardly any roofing tile or plaster fragments were found in this locus; nearly 70% of the pottery found this season in T-48 came from Locus 13 . The most common type of pottery found in this locus was impasto, although large amounts of coarseware and fine impasto were also recovered, including a number of Italo-Corinthian pottery sherds. Notably, Locus 13 contained a relatively large amount of bucchero, much of which was incised or stamped.

Once the dark gray, Locus 13 soil was removed, hardly any more pottery was found in T-48. Loci 14 and 16 , which are in fact the same olive green soil and so shall be analyzed together, yielded only 114 sherds of pottery.

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Also, beneath this olive green soil, galestra was found; the galestra was designated Locus 15 . One sherd of pottery was found in Locus 15 , although this was found along the southern baulk wall, in the first pick pass of the locus, and so it seems probable that this sherd eroded out of the baulk wall. All other pick passes of the locus revealed that this soil was completely sterile.

A good amount of datable pottery was found in T-48 during the 2008 season, which consists of Italo-Corinthian pottery and decorated bucchero. From Locus 11 , two sherds of Italo-Corinthian pottery were found ( 20080006

and 20080009 ), while in Locus 13 , nine cataloged sherds of Italo-Corinthian pottery were recovered. These sherds come from at least three different vessels, one aryballos, two oinochoe and other unidentified vessels. The aryballos fragments are 20080107 , 20080110 , 20080119 , and 20080137 , while the oinochoe sherds are 20080106 , 20080121 , and 20080135 . Also, 20080136 and 20080148 come from unidentified vessel types.

Additonally, many incised, stamped, or otherwise decorated sherds of bucchero were found in T-48, which may also be datable. From Loci 11 and 12 , two fragments of fluted bucchero ( 20080091

, 20080139 ), two sherds of incised bucchero ( 20080040 , 20080090 ), and one sherd

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of stamped bucchero were found ( 20080048

), as well as a buchero strut that would have supported a chalice ( 20080019 ) and the tondo and rim of another bucchero vessel ( 20080213 ). In Locus 13 , one cataloged sherd of incised bucchero ( 20080124 ) and eight cataloged sherds of stamped bucchero were recovered ( 20080089 , 20080108 , 20080114 , 20080125 , 20080131 , 20080141 , 20080146 , 20080209 ).

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