ATLANTE DEI SITI DI PRODUZIONE CERAMICA (Toscana, Lazio, Campania e Sicilia)

The Atlas of ceramic production sites and shipwrecks is based on the collection of all published (and partly unpublished) data on ceramic production sites in Central and Southern Italy (Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and Sicily), from the 4th Century B.C. to the 1st Century A.D. The volume is centered on a series of records of pottery production sites, including the geographic location of the site, information on structures, drawings of the main pottery types produced, epigraphic data and bibliographic references. The Atlas also includes tables with information about the shipwrecks which carried the ceramics produced in Central and Southern Italy throughout the Mediterranean markets, over a time-span of five centuries, between the 4th Century B.C. and the 1st Century A.D. The aim is to increase the data on pottery production sites with information on the commercial networks of their ceramic products in the Western Mediterranean. On one hand dealing with such large quantity of data enables new interpretations concerning both pottery production and vessels and victuals exchange in classical antiquity; on the other hand it will help to improve our technological knowledge in different areas of material studies.