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Becx, Martine (2020)

Baking Covers in Central Italy: A study of a food preparation ceramic found in Central Italy and in the survey materials from Molise, Italy

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

This thesis takes a look at a specific cooking ware vessel found during the survey campaigns of the Colonial Landscape Project; the baking cover. The function of this vessel was to prepare food underneath. It starts with the framework as given by Cubberley et al. (1988), in which they relate differences in flange sizes to different time periods. Afterwards, it gives a reference collection with samples of baking covers found at different sites located in Central Italy. With these two starting points, it will analyse the baking covers found during the survey campaigns of the Colonial Landscape Project based on typology, sizes and decorations. At the end, a catalogue will be provided in which both collections, from the Central Italian reference collection and from the Colonial Landscape Project, are included which could be used as a reference collection when classifying and dating baking cover fragments and/or vessels.

Baking cover

Clibanus

Testum

Author

Becx, Martine

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Specialisation

Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology

Supervisors

Haas, T.C.A. de

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en