394 Biccone
Other recently discovered signs of regional production have emerged from
the Benedictine monasteries of Saccargia and Santa Maria di Tergu. At the
former, remains of a combustion chamber belonging to a kiln from between
the eleventh and twelfth centuries, probably used to fire pottery, were discov-
ered, but manufacturing waste has not been identified or is barely legible.20
In the course of an excavation near the abbey of Santa Maria di Tergu, an infill
was interpreted as a waste compound from the demolition of a workshop for
manufacturing as yet unidentified ceramic items on a potter’s wheel.21
in blue and luster have been attributed to the area around Cagliari on the basis of pet-
rological analyses. The latter were later reconsidered thanks to chemical investigations
directed at neutron activation that indicated a provenance in the area of Malaga for one
of the jugs; see Porcella, “Il fondo Pula,” p. 375, table 644. Three glazed jugs decorated with
luster from the same context have been attributed to production in Malaga.
20 Domingo Dettori, “Rinvenimento di fornaci e di indicatori della produzione ceramica
presso due contesti monastici nel nord della Sardegna (secc. XI–XII),” in Tecnologie e pro-
duzione della ceramica in età medievale e moderna (Albisola, 2009), pp. 287–288.
21 Dettori, “Rinvenimento di fornaci,” pp. 288–289.
Figure 15.3 Majolica in green and brown from the excavation of Ardara.