The research conducted during the last years on textiles and textile production in southern Italy is giving meaningful results regarding the knowledge of ancient cloths and their production system. This paper will focus on textile production in a specific area of the South of Italy, Lucania, through the study of some contexts. Three Hellenistic sites are highly significant for the analysis of textile tools. The first of them is the so-called ‘Casa dei Pithoi’ at Serra di Vaglio, a 4th century BC aristocratic dwelling where about 100 loom weights were discovered aligned along an inner wall together with traces of the burnt loom. The results will be compared with those of the house discovered in the valley of Cuozzi at Roscigno, built during the second half of the 4th century BC, which included several rooms built around an open paved central courtyard, covering a surface of over 200 square metres. Both the sites will be also compared with the Square Building of the Heraion near the mouth of the Sele river where about 300 loom weights have been discovered and where the presence of some looms for the production of several qualities of cloth has been hypothesized and verified. Another step will be the comparison of the previous results with some pieces of cloth found mineralised and calcified in a 4th century BC Lucanian burial at Paestum. The combination of the data from all these contexts will give us a first picture of textile production in Lucania in the Hellenistic period and will be compared with what is emerging from other areas of southern Italy.
Textile production in Lucanian Contexts / Cicala, Luigi; Meo, Francesco; Ferrara, Bianca; Passaro, Simona. - (2020), pp. 239-256. (Intervento presentato al convegno Redefining Ancient Textile Handcraft Structures, Tools and Production Processes, PURPUREAE VESTES VII Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity, Proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World tenutosi a Granada, Spain nel 2-4 October 2019).
Textile production in Lucanian Contexts
Luigi Cicala
;Bianca Ferrara
;Simona Passaro
2020
Abstract
The research conducted during the last years on textiles and textile production in southern Italy is giving meaningful results regarding the knowledge of ancient cloths and their production system. This paper will focus on textile production in a specific area of the South of Italy, Lucania, through the study of some contexts. Three Hellenistic sites are highly significant for the analysis of textile tools. The first of them is the so-called ‘Casa dei Pithoi’ at Serra di Vaglio, a 4th century BC aristocratic dwelling where about 100 loom weights were discovered aligned along an inner wall together with traces of the burnt loom. The results will be compared with those of the house discovered in the valley of Cuozzi at Roscigno, built during the second half of the 4th century BC, which included several rooms built around an open paved central courtyard, covering a surface of over 200 square metres. Both the sites will be also compared with the Square Building of the Heraion near the mouth of the Sele river where about 300 loom weights have been discovered and where the presence of some looms for the production of several qualities of cloth has been hypothesized and verified. Another step will be the comparison of the previous results with some pieces of cloth found mineralised and calcified in a 4th century BC Lucanian burial at Paestum. The combination of the data from all these contexts will give us a first picture of textile production in Lucania in the Hellenistic period and will be compared with what is emerging from other areas of southern Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
