Publisher Description

The Etruscan character of the city of Pisa has been questioned for a long time. However, thanks to a thriving period of archaeological investigations undertaken in the mid-1980s, it was possible to definitively confirm the ancient Etruscan origin of the settlement.
One of the main excavations was carried out between 1985 and 1988 a few steps away from the Leaning Tower (saggio D), where a complex and uninterrupted stratigraphy dating from the middle of the 6th century BC and the end of the 5th century AD was brought to light. The anthropic installations and wall structures unearthed share the same alignments and the same orientation, within an apparently orthogonal urban network designed at least from the end of the 5th century BC and knowingly respected until the end of the Roman imperial age.
Uno sguardo su Pisa ellenistica da piazza del Duomo, dedicated to the Hellenistic period documented in the excavation of saggio D, presents a substantial catalogue of the ceramic repertoire therein recovered, most of which are still not attested in the city. Due to the results of this work, it is now possible to redefine the role of Pisa in this period as one of the major trade centres of northern coastal Etruria.

Author Biography

Dr. Emanuele Taccola completed his entire studies at the University of Pisa, where he obtained two Master's Degrees with Honors in Ancient Letters and Archaeology (2003, 2006) and the PhD with Honors in Sciences of Antiquity and Archaeology (2019). He continues his long-running association with the University of Pisa, now working as a Teaching Assistant of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology, and an Adjunct Professor of Methodology of Survey and Representation in Archaeology.

Table of Contents

ENGLISH ABSTRACT ; 
CAPITOLO 1. INTRODUZIONE ; La scoperta di Pisa etrusca ; Il saggio D ; Obiettivo della ricerca e organizzazione del lavoro: strategia e metodologia ; 
CAPITOLO 2. LA PERIODIZZAZIONE GENERALE DELLA SEQUENZA STRATIGRAFICA ; Periodo I (550-450 a.C.) (Tavola II) ; Periodo II (450-400 a.C.) (Tavola III) ; Periodo III (400-350 a.C.) (Tavola VI) ; Periodo IVa (350-300 a.C.) (Tavola VII) ; Periodo IVb (300-225 a.C.) (Tavola VIII) ; Periodo Va (225-175 a.C) (Tavola IX) ; Periodo Vb (175-125 a.C.) (Tavola X) ; Periodo VIa (125-100 a.C.) (Tavola XI) ; Periodo VIb (100-50 a.C.) (Tavola XII) ; Periodo VII (50 a.C.-0) (Tavola XIII) ; Periodo VIII (0-400 d.C.) (Tavola XIV) ; Periodo IX (età medievale, post-medievale e moderna) (Tavola XV) ; Periodo X (età contemporanea) (Tavola XVI) ; 
CAPITOLO 3. CATALOGO DEI MATERIALI ; Avvertenza al catalogo ; Ceramica attica a figure rosse ; Ceramica etrusca a figure rosse ; Ceramica sovradipinta ; Ceramica a vernice nera ; Ceramica a vernice rossa ; Ceramica a pareti sottili ; Coppa "italo-megarese" ; Balsamari ; Ceramica Iberica ; Ceramica sigillata italica e tardo italica ; Ceramica comune da mensa, da cucina e da dispensa ; Anfore ; Materiale Edilizio ; Miscellanea ; 
CAPITOLO 4. CONCLUSIONI ; Commento al repertorio ceramico ; Il saggio D nel contesto di Pisa etrusca ; 
APPENDICE ; Tabelle di distribuzione dei materiali per US ; Caratterizzazione chimica mediante GC/MS di sostanze organiche da anfora ceramica ; 
BIBLIOGRAFIA ; 
TAVOLE

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