Alessandra Pegurri

Thesis title:

A City in Transition? Exploiting Common Wares to Question Socio-Cultural and Economic Change in Late Antique Rome.

Rome between AD 250-500 was a city in transition which saw major changes in demographic and economic profile. While much debated via text and monuments and through charting changes in international traffic older studies fail to engage with the ‘ordinary’ material culture to see how far changes are reflected in the everyday. This project therefore investigates the much neglected data offered by common wares – ceramics for household activities – to question material changes and responses. Recent finds from excavations in Rome enable a major survey of this material. My study will generate a chrono-typology, analyses of technological and functional aspects, and detailed assessment of usage across time in diverse social contexts, to question key cultural and socio-economic facets, such as eating habits, attitudes, access, and affordability.

Research Area

Archaeology

Publications

Trümper, M., Brünenberg, C., Dickmann, J., Esposito, D., Ferrandes, A.F., Pegurri, A., Robinson, M. and Rummel, C. (2019) Stabian Baths in Pompeii. New Research on the Development of Ancient Bathing Culture” in Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Römische Abteilung.

Pegurri, A. & Nunziante, M.S. (forthcoming) Ceramiche comuni a Roma in età tardoantica. Nuovi dati dal santuario delle Curiae Veteres. In LRCW6.

Mantovani, V. & Pegurri, A. (2018) Terra sigillata nord-italica decorate a matrice: analisi preliminare dei materiali di Boschirole (Gazzo Verronese-VR). In RCRF Acta45: 341-354.

Casalini, M., Capelli, C. and Pegurri, A. (2018) Keay 3/5: attestazioni a Roma in età tardoantica. In RCRF Acta45: 251-260.

Conferences

15 November 2020 --> 5th PGR Conference, SAAH University of Leicester "Understanding households and lifeways in late antique Rome – a atudy of Common Wares"

15-19 September 2020 --> LRCW 7 Congress 2019 Valencia
“Ceramic forms and morphological evolution of the late-antique Common Wares of Rome: preliminary data from the late-antique deposits of the Horti Lamiani and Curiae Veteressanctuary (Rome).”

24-28 May 2017 --> LRCW 6 Congress 2017 Agrigento
“Ceramiche comuni a Roma nell’età tardo-antica. Nuovi dati dal santuario delle Curiae Veteres sul Palatino nord-orientale.”

25 September- 2 October 2016 --> RCRF Congress 2016 Lisbon
“Terra sigillata nord-italica decorate a matrice: analisi preliminare dei materiali di Boschirole (Gazzo Verronese-VR).” Co-Authors: Valentina Mantovani, Alessandra Pegurri

25 September- 2 October 2016 --> RCRF Congress 2016 Lisbon
“Le produzioni tarde dell’Africana I-II: attestazioni a Roma in età tardoantica.” Co-Authors: Marta Casalini, Alessandra Pegurri

Other Research Interests

Classical Archaeology, Archaeology of Production, Late Antiquity, Ancient Roman Economies, Urban Archaeology, Roman Material Culture, Ancient Roman Craftsmanship, Roman Pottery, Common Wares, Sariuschalen, Late Roman Amphorae.