Recipient Viva Sacco
Date 01 April, 2024
Amount £9900.00
Summary The appearance of glazed tablewares in the late 9th century in the production and consumption of pottery in Sicily and Ifrīqiya, revolutionised artisanal practices. This project will employ four types of high-resolution scientific analysis in order to characterize the raw materials and recipes of the ceramic fabric and glazes of the tablewares produced and circulating in Sicily and Ifrīqiya (modern Tunisia, eastern Algeria and western Libya) from the late 9th to the 11th
century. In particular petrography and INAA, for the analysis of fabrics, SEM-EDS and LA-ICP MS, for the characterisation of the glazes will be performed. The aim is to identify the provenance of the pottery, and the similarities and differences in the fabrics and glaze recipes in Sicilian and Ifrīqiyan local productions, and through this to contribute to the understanding of the technological transfer and the circulation of artisans in the medieval Mediterranean.