Microtomographic studies as a tool in the identification of a new ceramic class: The metal-imitating pottery as grave goods among Brettians and Lucanians

Metal-imitating pottery was recently revealed in the burial grave goods in several necropoleis of the Lucanian and Brettian populations living in the northern territory of the current Calabria during the fourth century B.C. This discovery was supported by the evidence of a widespread use of this kind of artefacts in the graves of the middle and upper classes while there is no proof of similar objects related to daily use in the same context.