The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti: Volume II: The Small Finds

by C.J. Simpson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487557997
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	09/01/2023
Series:	Phoenix Supplementary Volumes , #35
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

C.J. Simpson is Associate Professor of Classics at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Table of Contents

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