Workshop, 14th – 15th of June 2024, University of Vienna

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Wien

Terra Sigillata is one of the most and best-studied ceramic wares of the Roman Period as it can be found all over the former regions of the Roman Empire. It enables the dating of strata and sites due to the potters’ stamps, the typology of the pottery and its decoration, allowing us to associate the red-slipped sherds with specific production sites. The focus of the workshop is on Terra Sigillata from so-called pre-consumption deposits, as it takes place in connection with the FWF project "Meaningful sherds: sigillata from pre-consumption deposits".
Pre-consumption deposits are pottery assemblages documenting the steps between production and consumption; broadly speaking, the pottery ended up in the soil unused by the customer. There are different types of pre-consumption deposits such as shipwrecks, quay-side dumps and warehouses, pottery shops and magazines. This topic offers a huge scientific potential that has not yet been fully exploited regarding pottery’s production and trade. The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss the characteristics of Terra Sigillata from pre-consumption deposits and to gather new ideas and insights regarding the different steps from the production of Terra Sigillata to its final destination point, the customer.

For further information, please contact Marina Palmieri (marina.palmieri@univie.ac.at) or Julia Kopf (Julia.Kopf@univie.ac.at).

To make it easier to plan the event, we kindly ask listeners to register by 31 May 2024.

Preliminary Programme-download

Preliminary Programme

Friday, 14.6.2024

13:00 – 13:30
Arrival and Registration

13:30 – 13:50
Julia Kopf – Marina Palmieri
Welcome, Introduction

13:50 – 14:30
Tatiana Baronti – Paolo Sangriso
Terra sigillata from Pisa. New data from a productive area of the northern suburb

14:30 – 15:10
Macarena Bustamante-Álvarez
Ex officina Hispana. Analyzing the productive mode in Hispania

15:10 – 15:50
Valentina Mantovani
Adria and other pre-consumption dumps in the Po Valley area: data analysis and outstanding questions

15:50 – 16:10
coffee break

16:10 – 16:50
Eleni Schindler-Kaudelka – Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger
The warehouse from the sector Südhang on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia/Austria
(Das Händlerdepot vom Sektor Südhang auf dem Magdalensberg)

16:50 – 17:30
Gijs Tol – Astrid Van Oyen
A 5000-piece puzzle: untangling the interpretation and provenance of the Italian sigillata deposit at Podere Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy)

18:00 – 18:45
Display of the Terra Sigillata from Bregenz (1st slot)

19:00 – 20:00
public evening lecture (followed by a reception)

Allard Mees (Germany)
Mass production of Roman Samian Ware and its long distance trade

Saturday, 15.6.2024

9:00 – 9:40
Philip Bes
The 2019-2021 Intensive Survey at Çandarlı (Pergamon Region)

9:40 – 10:20
Julia Kopf
An early South Gaulish pre-consumption deposit from Bregenz/A

10:20 – 11:00
Elisabeth Todt
The terra sigillata from the „Bregenzer Kellerfund“: pre-consumption deposit or consumption assemblage?

11:00 – 11:20
coffee break

11:20 – 12:00
Marina Palmieri
Between rubble and ashes: Composition and characteristics of a 2nd century pre-consumption deposit of terra sigillata from Bregenz/A

12:00 – 12:40
Michael Walsh
The riddle of the sands: a terra sigillata cargo lost en route to market

12:40 – 13:00
Final Discussion

13:30 – 14:15
Display of the Terra Sigillata from Bregenz (2nd slot)

15:00 – 17:00
Guided tour of the Roman Museum and Roman Vienna

From 19:00:
joint visit to a typical Viennese "Heuriger" (wine tavern, at your own expense)