The central crypt of the Sant’Eulalia archaeological area also included scarce fragments of pottery from Montelupo Fiorentino, a Tuscan centre famous for its ceramic production. One of the finds (fig. 1) is probably from an open tableware item (plate).

Fig. 1 - Montelupo Pottery from S. Eulalia (AFS; in STACCA 2002, fig. 60b, p. 118).

Its surfaces are waterproofed by an opaque white enamel (made of alkaline silicate and a mixture of lead oxide and tin oxide) but it is only decorated with parallel blue and yellow bands and brown and light blue brush strokes on the inside. A hypothesis is that the decoration could be part of the “vine leaf” type (used all through the XVII century) or belong to the type “figured with orange band” (end XVI - first half XVII century, figs. 2-3).

Fig. 2 - Majolica plate from Montelupo Fiorentino - 1590-1620 (BERTI 1998, Tav. 319, p. 378).

Fig. 3 - Montelupo Pottery from Vico III Lanusei (CARTA 2006, fig. 138, p. 209).

The Montelupo production – considered an indicator of trade between Sardinia and Tuscany in the XV-XVIII centuries (fig. 4) – provides an element needed to date the central Sant’Eulalia crypt it was found in.

Fig. 4 - Majolica basin from Montelupo Fiorentino -1730-1760 - (BERTI 1998, Tav. 366, p. 399).