WRECK OF CAPO ALFIERI B. XII-XIII CENTURY A.D.
PLATE
MUSAS Ref. No.:
CAPCOL-29
Inv. No.
Description
A plate with an everted rim and a residual inner decoration in red and manganese brown. Raised ring foot. Purified clay paste. The preservation state does not allow for determining the type of whitish coating.
Dimensions
Top diam. cm 15,3; foot diam. cm 6,1; h. cm 5
Materials
Terracotta
Location
Depot, National Archaeological Museum of Capo Colonna
Origin
Wreck of Alfieri B
Dating
XIII century A.D.
Biological degradation
The artefact does not present traces of biological colonisation.
References
MARINO, CORRADO, 1996, p. 7; MEDAGLIA, 2010, p. 299, n.301
REFERENCES
Marino D.A., Corrado M. 1996, Scoperte lungo il litorale di Crotone, in L’Archeologo Subacqueo 4, p. 7.
Medaglia S. 2010, Carta archeologica della provincia di Crotone: paesaggi storici e insediamenti nella Calabria centro-orientale dalla Preistoria all’Altomedioevo, Ricerche IV. Collana del Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti, Università della Calabria, Rossano.
BOWL
MUSAS Ref. No.:
CAPCOL-30
Inv. No.
Description
Fragmentary bowl with a thickened rim and a raised ring foot, with a residual decoration in red and manganese brown on the bottom. A trellis in manganese brown is visible. The preservation state does not allow for determining the type of whitish coating.
Dimensions
Presumed top diam. cm 21; foot diam. cm 9; h. cm 7
Materials
Terracotta
Location
Depot, National Archaeological Museum of Capo Colonna
Origin
Wreck of Alfieri B
Dating
XIII century A.D.
Biological degradation
A part of the artefact presents well-visible and roundish algal thalli of a colour varying from white to intense pink, caused by the growth of encrusting red algae. The calcareous tubes made by sedentary Polychaeta (sea worms) and colonies of Bryozoans are visible, too.
References
MEDAGLIA, 2010, p. 299, n.301 and previous references, in particular MARINO, CORRADO, 1996, p. 7
REFERENCES
Marino D.A., Corrado M. 1996, Scoperte lungo il litorale di Crotone, in L’Archeologo Subacqueo 4, p. 7.
Medaglia S. 2010, Carta archeologica della provincia di Crotone: paesaggi storici e insediamenti nella Calabria centro-orientale dalla Preistoria all’Altomedioevo, Ricerche IV. Collana del Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti, Università della Calabria, Rossano.
Two wrecks were found just south of Capo Alfieri. The first one, of a late Roman origin (A), was followed in the Middle Ages by a second shipwreck. The load was made of pottery plates and bowls in purified clay paste with decorations in red and manganese brown. These materials have been attributed to Sicilian workshops and dated back to the XII-XIII century (1).
The data cards of some of the digitised artefacts belonging to this wreck are available at the bottom of this page.
Wrecks of Capo Alfieri A and B (photo: L. Cantafora, in Medaglia 2008)
NOTES
1 MARINO, CORRADO 1996, p. 7; MEDAGLIA 2008, p. 110-111; MEDAGLIA 2010, p. 299.
REFERENCES
Marino D.A., Corrado M. 1996, Scoperte lungo il litorale di Crotone, “L’Archeologo Subacqueo”, II, 1-4 (gennaio-aprile), p. 7.
Medaglia S. 2008, Per un censimento dei relitti antichi lungo la costa crotonese. Nota preliminare, in Ricerche archeologiche e storiche in Calabria: modelli e prospettive, “Atti del convegno di studi in onore di Giovanni Azzimmaturo (Cosenza 2007)”, Cosenza, pp. 93-120.
Medaglia S. 2010, Carta archeologica della provincia di Crotone: paesaggi storici e insediamenti nella Calabria centro-orientale dalla Preistoria all’Altomedioevo, RICERCHE. Collana del Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti. IV. Università della Calabria, Cosenza.