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    The Excavations of San Giovanni Di Ruoti
    Volume II: the Small Finds

    C.J. Simpson (Author)

    9781487557997

    Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2023

    158 pages
    27.9 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm, 0.44 kg

    Between 1977 and 1984 the excavations of a Canadian archaeological team at San Giovanni di Ruoti in southern Italy uncovered a series of three Roman villas dating from the first to the sixth centuries AD. The multi-volume report on the excavation will provide the first comprehensive overview of the social and economic life of a Roman villa in southern Italy. Volume II constitutes a catalogue raisonTe of the small finds, covering all categories of non-ceramic personal, domestic, and industrial artifacts recovered from the site.

    C.J. Simpson has been a member of the Canadian excavation team since 1979. He provides detailed descriptions of the individual artifacts, their dates of manufacture, and their use, and discusses the evidence they yield for domestic and daily life. The artifacts range from hairpins and brooches to iron knives used for slicing and chopping. Coins and lamps found at the site are evaluated in separate contributions by R. Reece and J.J. Rossiter. The book includes several useful appendices, notably one by Vito Volterra on the analysis of millstones.The 400 items listed in the catalogue are illustrated by drawings or photographs.

    This volume presents one of very few accounts of the household artifacts found at an estate centre remote from urban Rome. It provides an important resource for specialists seeking to date similar objects, and adds much interesting detail to our picture of the rural economy of Italy in late antiquity.

    LIST OF TABLES

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    PREFACE

    ABBREVIATIONS

    Introduction
    Phases and dates of occupation
    The organization of the Catalogue
    The current disposition of the minor objects
    Format of Catalogue entries
    The minor objects as dating evidence
    The minor objects as evidence for daily life
    Constraints
    The tables
    The middens

    Catalogue
    I. Articles of adornment, dress, or toilet
     Hairpins
     Combs
     Brooches
     Finger rings
     Earrings
     Bracelets/armlets
     Beads
     Buckles and other articles of dress
     Ligulae
     Tweezers
     Mirror

    II. Articles associated with textiles
     Sewing needles
     Loom weights
     Spindle whorls
     Circular or irregularly shaped weights

    III. Articles associated with the processing of food
     Querns
     Stone mortars
     Large stone basins
     Metal bowl

    IV. Articles associated with writing
     Styli
     Stylus cases
     Seal box

    V. Articles associated with weighing
     Weights
     Steelyard

    VI. Tools (knife blades and other implements)
     Stone objects
     Bone objects
     Metal blades
     Implements used in woodworking
     Implements possibly associated with leatherworking
     Implements associated with agriculture
     Other implements
     Tools and implements of unknown use

    VII. Furnishings, fastenings, and fixtures
     Furniture attachments
     Objects of bone
     Objects of copper alloy
     Keys and lock fittings
     Hinges
     Staples and similar objects
     Loop-headed spikes
     Split pin/ ring staples
     Miscellaneous fixtures and fittings

    VIII. Articles associated with leisure, religious, and other activities
     Gaming pieces
     Flute fragment
     Metal sculpture
     Terracotta objects
     Amulet

    IX. Articles associated with equitation
     Cheekpiece
     Strap fittings
     Spurs

    X. Weaponry
     Projectile head

    XL Objects currently unidentifiable
     Copper alloy objects
     Iron objects
     Other objects

    Bibliography

    Concordances
    Small Find numbers: Volumes II/I
    Small Find numbers in ascending order

    Appendix 1
    Conservation of the amulet by 0. Colacicchi Alessandri

    Appendix2
    The inheritance of Stephen and the non-ceramic artifacts at San Giovanni di Ruoti

    Appendix3
    Provenancing of ancient Roman millstones by V. Volterra

    COINS by R. Reece

    Coins and the economy in the later phases of San Giovanni

    Catalogue

    Bibliography

    LAMPS by J.J. Rossiter

    Introduction

    Catalogue
    Group 1: Italian lamps of Bailey Types A to G
    Group 2: Italian lamps of Bailey Types O and P
    Group 3: Italian lamps - miscellaneous fragments (first to second centuries AD)
    Group 4: Italian globule lamps (Bailey Type K)
    Group 5: African lamps of Atlante Form VIII/ Hayes Type I
    Group 6: African lamps of Atlante Form X/ Hayes Type II
    Group 7: Campanian Red Ware lamps of Bailey Type Siii
    Group 8: Lucanian Buffware lamps of Bailey Type Siii
    Group 9: Miscellaneous Late Roman lamps

    Bibliography

    ILLUSTRATIONS
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