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decorated with luster, and three glazed bowls with decoration impressa a stampo
(Fig. 15.15), produced either in southern Spain or northern Morocco.47 A glazed
medicinal jug with graffito, recalling an eastern Mediterranean type (Syria or
Egypt), has emerged from the same context.48 Likewise, the Byzantine graffito,
so-called Zeuxippus Ware, manufactured in various centers in the Aegean, has
been rarely documented on the island.49 In terms of the western Mediterranean
in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Tunisian Cobalt and Manganese wares
are also documented in Sardinia and found with ever greater frequency in
archaeological contexts throughout the region (Fig. 15.16).50
47 This is a type commonly seen among the bacini of Pisan churches; Graziella Berti and
Liana Tongiorgi, I bacini ceramici medievali delle chiese di Pisa (Rome, 1981), pp. 215–220. In
Sardinia, aside from Ardara, it has been found in the abandoned medieval village of Ardu
(close to Sassari) and at the excavation of Piazza Sulis in Alghero; Biccone, “Invetriate
monocrome decorate a stampo.”
48 Milanese and Biccone, “Le ceramiche,” p. 130.
49 Only two fragments are found in late medieval or modern contexts: one from Geridu, a
medieval village close to Sorso (SS), the other from the medieval village of Bisarcio (Ozieri
(SS). Milanese, Biccone, “Le ceramiche dal Mediterraneo orientale,” p. 132.
50 Urban archaeological studies in Sassari show wide circulation of these ceramics, many
of which also existed as bacini in the bell tower of San Nicola. Others have been found in
Ardara, Geridu (Sorso-SS), and Bosa; see Marco Milanese, “Ceramiche d’importazione in
Figure 15.14 Eastern Sicilian glazed ware from the excavation of Largo Monache
Cappuccine in Sassari.