Indagini archeologiche in Palazzo Maggi Gambara a Brescia: testimonianze ceramiche tardoantiche e associazioni di vasellame di prima età longobarda

The archaeological researches carried out between 1999 and 2001 inside Palazzo Maggi Gambara (Brescia), which was built on the remains of a Roman Theatre, brought to light part of the structural elements of its service areas, their transformation and the new untended use during the post-classical phases. Some African red slip bowls and an oil lamp represent the terminus post quem that attests the abandonment and the wrong use of the structures of the Theatre between the half of the 4th and 6th centuries AD and the subsequent events of its collapse and burning (6th century AD). The large number of fragments of Lombard pottery together with coarse and glazed ware prove the existence of a new Early Medieval residential context and identify a single homogeneous production that reveals the features of both late Roman and Pannonian tradition, dating between the second half of the 6th and the beginning of the 7th century AD.