408 Biccone
Figure 15.15 Glazed bowl decorated a stampo from the excavation of Ardara.
In this period, at least until the first half of the thirteenth century, lead-glazed
pottery of the Spiral Ware type from Campania was widespread and used
for bacini in the churches of San Nicola in Sassari, San Priamo in San Vito
(Capoterra-CA), and Santa Chiara in Cagliari. It has likewise been documented
in various finds and excavations in the cities of Sassari, Alghero, and Cagliari,
as well as in various rural settlements in the region of Sassari and Cagliari
(Pl. 15.5).51 In terms of the tenth through eleventh centuries, the system of
routes, as well as the organization of commerce between the eastern and west-
ern Mediterranean, may be gathered from the extraordinary documents of the
Sardegna tra IX e XIII secolo,” in Pensare/Classificare. Studi e ricerche sulla ceramica medi-
evale per Graziella Berti, eds. Sauro Gelichi and Monica Baldassarri (Florence, 2010), p. 151.
They are preserved as bacini in the church of Santa Chiara and San Lorenzo in Cagliari
and Santa Barbara in Capoterra; see Hobart and Porcella, “I bacini”; Hobart, “Merchant
and Monks.” For Southern Sardinia, see Moriscos. Echi della presenza e della cultura isl-
amica in Sardegna (Cagliari, 1993), pp. 35–37.
51 Milanese, “Ceramiche d’importazione,” p. 153. More rare, on the other hand, is the proto-
majolica from southern Italy, on which topic the study edited by Graziella Berti, Michelle
Hobart, and Francesca Porcella remains unparalleled: “ ‘Protomaioliche’ in Sardegna,” in
La protomajolica e la majolica arcaica dalle origini al Trecento (Albisola, 1990), pp. 153–167.