The Mediteranean Sea Inside the City. The Imports from the Padua Baptistery Excavation
Résumé
Archaeological excavations at the cathedral of Padua have unearthed a complex stratigraphy related to the Late Antique episcopal complex of the city and its transformation until the modern day. A group of amphoraeand red slip ware with a chronological range between the 4th and the 7th centuries is of particular interest because it indicates short- and medium-range commercial relations with different regions in the Mediterranean. 18 amphora samples have been analysed in order to understand what kind of product they contained. Even if preliminary, the analyses confirm the habit to cover the wall of the pottery with resins to make them waterproof. The combination of these results with ongoing archaeobotanical and archaeozoological studies will allow further considerations about the city’s environment and the diet of the Paduan population in the Late Antiquity.
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