The bricks’ production represents the most significant Velia’s craftwork in the Hellenistic age. The bricks’ analysis, still in progress in a large research project, has been developed both on the morphological and on the epigraphic level. Production is characterized by a high degree of bricks’ standardization, square and rectangular shape, and for the stamp’s system with a “constant” and an “invariable” stamp. The considerable quantity of specimens available in the urban area, in situ or erratic, offers a very broad sample of analysis, destined for increase with the continuation of research. Production, strictly controlled by the local administration, it seems to be aimed at large public construction sites. Its circulation, however, it remains tied to an exclusively sub-regional context.
The Bricks of Elea-Velia: Archaeology and Epigraphy of Production / Cicala, Luigi; Vecchio, Luigi. - 53:(2022), pp. 415-431. (Intervento presentato al convegno Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology tenutosi a Cologne-Bonn nel 22-26 May 2018) [10.11588/PROPYLAEUM.999.C13373].
The Bricks of Elea-Velia: Archaeology and Epigraphy of Production
Luigi Cicala;
2022
Abstract
The bricks’ production represents the most significant Velia’s craftwork in the Hellenistic age. The bricks’ analysis, still in progress in a large research project, has been developed both on the morphological and on the epigraphic level. Production is characterized by a high degree of bricks’ standardization, square and rectangular shape, and for the stamp’s system with a “constant” and an “invariable” stamp. The considerable quantity of specimens available in the urban area, in situ or erratic, offers a very broad sample of analysis, destined for increase with the continuation of research. Production, strictly controlled by the local administration, it seems to be aimed at large public construction sites. Its circulation, however, it remains tied to an exclusively sub-regional context.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
