Su alcuni materiali del Museo Provinciale di Torcello

Venice lagoon has only recently aroused archaeological interest, and owing to the deep environmental changes it has undergone over the centuries, an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to reconstruct the ways the ancient population exploited the lagoon basin. This contribution proposes a new reading of 19th century documents on some Roman age artefacts preserved in the Torcello provincial museum. The origin of these artefacts has been questioned, both on a chronological - typological level, and on a topographical one, on the basis of an archaeological overview of the Torcello archipelago