Ricerc@Sapienza

There are various indications for textile production in the ancient city of Pompeii and its vicinity, but archaeological

The research project Textile Culture at Pompeii is a multidisciplinary project, whose aim is to provide new input to the ongoing debate on the significance of the textile economy in the Vesuvian area in antiquity by considering textile culture as a whole. Archaeological investigations on contexts as well as archaeometric analyses on textile micro-samples reveal new information about the ‘textile topography’ of Pompeii, the local and imported goods as well as the standardised or high-quality textile products.