EVALUATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL FEATURES OF LATE ROMAN COOKING WARE CLASSES FROM AKRAI (SYRACUSE, SICILY)

Abstract

In this work, a provenance and technological investigation on cooking-ware potteries from the ancient
Greek -Roman town of Akrai (Palazzolo Acreide, Syracuse, Sicily) has proposed. A multi-methodological
approach have been used to study the manufacture quality of analysed materials; in detail, petrographic,
mineralogical, spectroscopic, chemical, porosimetric and micro-morphological analyses have been applied.
The study provides fundamental contribute in archeological issues related to circulation in Sicily of cooking-
ware productions during Late Roman Age; in fact, the obtained results allow to recognize in the site the
presence of different well-known cooking-ware Roman productions, highlighting interesting questions
about the technological and manufacture properties of this class of materials.