Il contesto dei forni del vano r, Casa IIB

Temples Park within the Hellenistic Roman Quarter, an interesting production context was identified within space r of House IIB. Starting with the cleaning of an old archaeological survey we identified three ovens, of which can be traced back to the tannur type, a small domestic wood-burning oven in which the combustion chamber and cooking chamber coincide, probably of Middle Eastern origin. Oven 1 revealed a clay structure containing an accumulation of stones, mixed with a blackish sediment that had crushed some partially reassembled vases. The oven has an elliptical shape with a base of clay tiles placed on a level of sand and an uplift of clay. A second oven, just to the north of the first, does not preserve the elevated portion, but only the circular imprint partly recessed in the ground. The edges are reinforced with fragments of tiles and flat stones that protrude from the wall. A third oven is located in the southeast corner of the room: larger than the first two, the elevation portion is not preserved. The three ovens are related to the tannur type, widespread throughout the Mediterranean area. It is a structure with a variable shape from the truncated cone to the cylinder, built in raw clay assembled by hand. Inside oven 1 various objects used for cooking and serving food were found: two pots and part of a third, jugs and a situla in common purified ceramic, two oil lamps and a small bottle for drinking. The materials are all datable to the end of the I century B.C. to the I century A.D.