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<p><i>Fregellae</i> was founded in 328 BCE as a Roman colony on the <i>via Latina</i>, near the confluence of the Sacco and Liri rivers in southern Lazio, Italy. Goods were imported from other centres in the region and through long distance trade via the nearby port of <i>Minturnae</i> on the Tyrrhenian coast. The city was destroyed in 125 BCE and never rebuilt. The typo-morphological study of the coarse ware indicates that the city was multi-cultural at the time of its destruction, and that its inhabitants used pottery common to the regional Roman-Latin (RL) traditions as well as those of <i>Magna Graecia</i> (MG) and southern Italy. This article adopts a multi-analytical approach to identify the technology and provenance of this RL and MG pottery and to shed light on the communities that produced it. The results indicate that potters at <i>Fregellae</i> used an Fe-rich, Ca-poor, illite-muscovite clay, possibly sourced from nearby alluvial sediments, to produce RL and MG pottery. The coarse inclusions consist of alluvial sand, comprising a natural mix of quartz, carbonate fragments and volcanic inclusions, and the pottery was fired around 850&#xa0;°C under well-controlled conditions. Only one sample has an anomalous composition and appears to have been imported. These results tentatively suggest that potters used the same raw materials, paste recipes and firing processes to produce RL and MG pottery – only the shapes differ.</p>

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Different pots, same recipes? cross-cultural encounters in Roman Republican Fregellae, Southern Lazio (Italy)

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    2026年1月16日

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  • Barbara Borgers,
  • Francesca Diosono,
  • Corina Ionescu,
  • Ágnes Gál,
  • Lucian Barbu-Tudoran

摘要

Fregellae was founded in 328 BCE as a Roman colony on the via Latina, near the confluence of the Sacco and Liri rivers in southern Lazio, Italy. Goods were imported from other centres in the region and through long distance trade via the nearby port of Minturnae on the Tyrrhenian coast. The city was destroyed in 125 BCE and never rebuilt. The typo-morphological study of the coarse ware indicates that the city was multi-cultural at the time of its destruction, and that its inhabitants used pottery common to the regional Roman-Latin (RL) traditions as well as those of Magna Graecia (MG) and southern Italy. This article adopts a multi-analytical approach to identify the technology and provenance of this RL and MG pottery and to shed light on the communities that produced it. The results indicate that potters at Fregellae used an Fe-rich, Ca-poor, illite-muscovite clay, possibly sourced from nearby alluvial sediments, to produce RL and MG pottery. The coarse inclusions consist of alluvial sand, comprising a natural mix of quartz, carbonate fragments and volcanic inclusions, and the pottery was fired around 850 °C under well-controlled conditions. Only one sample has an anomalous composition and appears to have been imported. These results tentatively suggest that potters used the same raw materials, paste recipes and firing processes to produce RL and MG pottery – only the shapes differ.