Ceramica islamica a Palermo. La formazione di un orizzonte produttivo

This paper aims to a preliminary analysis of the Palermo ceramics productions, which, not attested in the late IX early X century contexts recently reviewed, can be dated from the immediately following period, namely during the tenth century. In continuity with the approach we used to examine the Islamization processes underlying the first productions (Ar-cifa Bagnera 2018), useful elements are analyzed to allow the different registers andcultural influences composing the productive horizon of the capital of the Sicilian emirate to be highlighted. repertoires and the manifacturing techniques as indicators of wider processes, new research paths emerge towards three main directions: a) measuring the maintenance and / orchanges of the previous, preislamic components within the new production framework, aswell as the possible intervention of new inputs; b) to identify the main articulation featuresof the Palermo productions and workshops; c) to assess how and to what extent the pro-ductive reality of Palermo fits whithin the networks, circuits and relationships dynamics defining the main ceramic horizons of the 9th-10th century Islamic world