Ceramic technology: how to characterize terra sigillata ware
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(2020) 12:211
REVIEW
Ceramic technology: how to characterize terra sigillata ware Philippe Sciau 1
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Corinne Sanchez 2
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Elisabetta Gliozzo 3
Received: 24 February 2020 / Accepted: 24 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract As part of the Topical Collection on the archaeometric study of ceramics, this paper focuses on terra sigillata ware. The main aims are to provide a review on the state of the art of the studies and to provide a guide to the most suitable analytical techniques. The text is divided into four main parts: (1) a brief archaeological introduction on the ancient production of terra sigillata; (2) a summary of the archaeometric studies carried out to date; (3) a reasoned list of the most suitable techniques for the investigation of the ceramic body and (4) an in-depth discussion on the most effective techniques for the study of the coating. The application of both destructive and non-destructive techniques is critically evaluated as well as the advantages and disadvantages provided by the different instrumentation, in terms of sample preparations and expected results. Keywords Terra sigillata . Red coating . Ceramic mass production . Roman ceramics . Provenance and technology
Premise This paper contributes to the Topical Collection (TC) “Ceramics: Research questions and answers” aimed at guiding researchers in the study of archaeological ceramics from excavation to study and preservation in museum collections. Each contribution has a tutorial approach covering one of the main issues pertaining to the study of ceramics: research questions and sampling criteria (Gliozzo 2020a); the chemical (Hein and Kilikoglou 2020) and mineralogical-petrographic (Montana 2020) investigation of raw materials; the
technological character and suitability of raw materials (Gualtieri 2020); the processing (Eramo 2020) and modelling (Thér 2020) of clays; surface finishing (Ionescu and Hoeck 2020) and ceramic firing (Gliozzo 2020b); the investigation of different coatings such as black glass-ceramic (Aloupi-Siotis 2020), terra sigillata (this paper) and glazes (Pradell and Molera 2020); the isotopic study of particular types of products such as Chinese high fired ceramics (Henderson et al. 2020); the identification of post-burial transformations (Maritan 2020); the dating of ceramics (Galli et al. 2020); and the restoration and musealisation of ceramics (de Lapérouse 2020). This Topical Collection concludes with a tutorial on statistical data processing (Papageorgiou 2020).
This article is part of the Topical Collection on Ceramics: Research questions and answers * Elisabetta Gliozzo [email protected] Philippe Sciau [email protected] Corinne Sanchez [email protected] 1
CNRS, CEMES, Toulouse University, 29 rue J. Marvig, 31055 Toulouse, France
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CNRS, Archéologie des Société Méditerranéennes (UMR 5140), Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier, France
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Department of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, v
