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Tarraco visigoda: caracterización del material cerámico del siglo VII
... Alongside these findings, there was an extensive religious complex of martyr worship (4th to early 5th centuries), which remained in use throughout the Visigothic period (Serra, 1935: 9ff;López, 2006). As a part of these archaeological records in the western sector of the port area, numerous pottery contexts were recovered but only a few cases have been analyzed and published (Macias, 1999: 250-252;Remolà, 2000: 96-98;Macias and Remolà, 2000;Lasheras, 2015;Macias, 2016, 2018, in press;Rodríguez, 2020). The first ceramic approach came from a small dump and several layers from the abandonment of a balnea building, located in the current 10-12 Felip Pedrell St. and dated to the mid-7th century onwards (Macias, 1999: 250-252;Remolà, 2000: 96-98;Remolà, 2000, 2005; a new analysis of this deposit in Rodríguez, 2020: 52-64;Rodríguez and Macias, in press). ...
... Here we include materials from six ceramic deposits (see Rodríguez, 2020 for further details about the stratigraphic data and ceramic contexts). Firstly, we incorporate part of the materials from the first dump published by Macias and Remolà in 2000 (Fig. 1c n.1) (P2-7-22a/1; Macias and Remolà, 2000;Rodríguez, 2020: 54ff). Likewise, we include two construction horizons with overlapping layers (TVB27/1 and TVB27b/2.1) ...
Tarraco was the ancient capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, a Roman province in the Western Mediterranean. It was a strategic enclave and one of the most important ports during the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. The archaeological record of the city shows a variety of imported products arrived from several regions including a significant amount of eastern Mediterranean wares, amongst which there are fine, table-wares, amphorae, and
coarse and cooking wares. This work focuses on the integrated archaeological and archaeometric study of these eastern types of Late Roman cooking wares from the mid-7th century to the early 8th century. In previous works, these products were classified as Aegean and North Palestinian imports. However, for some of these materials a detailed macroscopic study revealed similarities with local/regional products, opening the possibility of regional ware imitating eastern prototypes. An analytical study was carried out, applying a combination of WD-XRF and Optical Microscopy to identify their provenance. The results point to the coexistence of imported eastern Mediterranean wares and local/regional imitations. At the same time, some of the typologies identified as eastern Mediterranean products seem to have been produced locally or regionally.
... We counted at the moment on a series of archaeological contexts, located in Puig Rom (Roses, Alt Empordà, Girona) (Nolla and Casas 1997), Sant Martí d' Empúries (l'Escala, Alt Empordà, Girona) (Aquilué 1997), the highway from l'Escala to Empúries (Llinàs 1997 (Barrasetas and Járrega 1997) and diverse contexts in the city of Tarragona (Macías and Remolà 2000;Remolà 2000), that allows to study the pottery of the 6th and 7th centuries. ...
... We counted at the moment on a series of archaeological contexts, located in Puig Rom (Roses, Alt Empordà, Girona) (Nolla and Casas 1997), Sant Martí d' Empúries (l'Escala, Alt Empordà, Girona) (Aquilué 1997), the highway from l'Escala to Empúries (Llinàs 1997 (Barrasetas and Járrega 1997) and diverse contexts in the city of Tarragona (Macías and Remolà 2000;Remolà 2000), that allows to study the pottery of the 6th and 7th centuries. ...
... En los últimos años, la ciudad de Tarragona ha incrementado exponencialmente su ya extenso conocimiento ceramológico sobre la segunda mitad del siglo vii e inicios del viii d. C. (Keay, 1984;Aquilué, 1992;Macias, 1999;Remolà, 2000;Macias y Remolà, 2000Rodríguez y Macias, 2016. El análisis de diversas intervenciones arqueológicas realizadas en el área portuaria ha permitido revisar las informaciones relativas al mantenimiento del flujo de abastecimiento de ciertos productos mediterráneos almacenados en ánforas, así como distintos utensilios en cerámica común, lucernas para la iluminación y vajilla fina para el servicio de mesa (Rodríguez, 2020). ...
This paper presents, for the first time, an analysis of the Late Roman Unguentarium (LRU) attested in the city of Tarragona and, more specifically, in the excavations carried out in the so-called port suburb. The study has recorded 40 examples deriving from 16 ceramic contexts, in which Late Roman Unguentarium and Ephesian Early Byzantine Amphoriskos variants have been identified. The connection of these small containers with the stratigraphic data and the information provided by other ceramic categories allows us to place them chronologically between the 7th and early 8th centuries AD.
... Macias, 1999: 140-141). Este recipiente se documentaba en múltiples excavaciones tarraconenses del PERI-2 (Macias/Remolà, 2000y 2005, presentando unas características análogas al tipo CATHMA 23 (1991: 37), Cooking pot ware 3 (Hayes, 1968) o Saraçhane type B que documentó Hayes en el depósito 30 4 de Saraçhane (1992: 101). Por otro lado, se han lo-4 Hasta el momento se le había propuesto un lugar de producción alrededor de la ciudad de Constantinopla, pero nunca se había realizado un estudio analítico al respecto. ...
The latest archaeological finds in Tarragona port area have provided new data that it must have an effect in the problematic disappearance of visigothic Tarracona before the irruption of early al-Andalus (c. 713-714). This article focuses on the difficulty of establishing chronological dates based on pottery deposits study. Its coastal situation facilitated the importation of numerous Mediterranean products but the absence of satisfactory knowledge prevents its temporal characterization, as well as the identification of the disappearance of the city.
... La cronología de los datos cerámicos demuestra la perdurabilidad de las relaciones comerciales con los puertos mediterráneos. Una actividad que se mantuvo hasta la ocupación islámica tal como demuestran los objetos procedentes de las provincias occidentales, del norte de África y de diversos lugares centro-mediterráneos (Macias y Remolà, 2000). Hemos constatado fragmentos del sistema viario en parte aprovechando y estrechando antiguas viae altoimperiales o bien definiendo nuevos trazados irregulares, estrechos y carentes de siste-mas de canalización de residuos o de abastecimiento de agua. ...
After their imperial splendor Tarracona was a city in process of adaptation to a new reality.
Of being a city that looked at Rome it transformed into an outlying city where their main resources were their historical inertia, their port condition and their metropolitan see. Tarracona developed a urban transformation in the century sixth, consequence of the process of Christian installation in the old spaces of imperial power. It should be the last urban mutation of a city where the current archaeology tries to stuff the numerous holes that it presents the historical documentation.
Les dades que exposem en aquest article són fruit dels treballs preliminars associats a la rea-lització de la memòria tècnica. En aquest sentit, hem de dir que caldrà una reflexió molt més acurada i profunda per comprendre l'evolució del jaciment. Igualment, hem d'assenyalar que la dinàmica constructiva mateixa del jaciment, així com l'evolució històrica d'aquest sector de l' Ager Tarraconensis, van comportar la destruc-ció en menor o major grau d'estructures i ni-vells, fet que en alguns casos ens impossibilita poder precisar datacions i ens dificulta una interpretació funcional correcta de les restes identificades. Pel que fa al grau de conservació, cal apuntar que les estructures millor conser-vades han estat aquelles que presentaven una major solidesa estructural o bé que van ser en part edificades al subsòl (les estructures ter-mals, les sitges i la cella vinaria). La resta de construccions es conservaven a nivell de fona-mentació o bé es trobaven totalment arrasades en aquells punts on el nivell natural presentava una cota més alta. El jaciment es troba a uns deu quilòmetres del centre urbà de Tarragona, dins els terrenys del Parc Químic de Bayer Material Science, S.L. a la Canonja, comarca del Tarragonès (fig. 1). La intervenció arqueològica, executada per l'em-presa CODEX-Arqueologia i Patrimoni, fou motivada per la construcció d'una nova planta (propietat de Kemira Ibérica, S.A.) destinada a la fabricació de productes per al tractament d'aigües (residuals i potables) i per a la indústria paperera. Els treballs arqueològics van posar al des-cobert un assentament rural tipus vil·la litoral (amb una superfície d’uns 7.500 m2)
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