 organizers for the invitation. And my name is Gabriella, and I've been working on textile tools from Sicily. Today, I'm going to show you one of the case studies from my PhD project that I just finished. I will present the case study of Monte Polizzo in Western Sicily, where some very interesting groups of loomways were found, which might be suggestive of the local tradition of setting up looms. The aims of this study was to contribute to the ongoing assessment of this site by looking at the loomways, which were not studied in detail by previous studies. My functional analysis will be focused on a cluster of loomways, potentially fallen from a working loom at the time of the destruction of the site. And I will compare these loomways with others, found in the same site. Specifically, the aim of this study was to understand whether local tradition of setting up a loom was practiced, whether a particular combination of heavy and light loomways might have worked in the same loom setup. And I investigated the possible fabrics produced by using those loomways. Unfortunately, I must admit that this paper won't answer these questions, but I will suggest a range of possibilities. So, let me present the site. Monte Polizzo was a settlement in Western Sicily, inhabited by a local community. It was located in area densely occupied, not only by local communities, but also by creeks and punyks. The main settlement is dated from the second half of the 7th century BC and was abandoned around the mid-6th century BC, possibly as a result of conflicts. As a whole, the material culture of Monte Polizzo shows distinctive features. It was particularly conservative and appears reluctant to adopt foreign traditions. Similarly, its weaving tradition shows distinctive features and loomways differ substantially in shape, size and manufacture from those of other nearby sites. On the basis of its location and material culture, the site has been traditionally connected with the ethnic group of the Elimians, although it is not widely accepted. Excavations carry out between 1999 and 2006, uncovered a settlement built at the highest point of the hill and along the slopes. Three main areas were excavated, the area A, B, Diacropolis and Portella Santana, which is the focus of this paper. Portella Santana is located to the north of Diacropolis. Preliminary excavation in 2005 brought to light several multi-room buildings, which might have been part of a workshop district. In one of these buildings, a group of 16 loomways was found. From the scattered pattern, the excavators suggested that the loomways might have been fallen from a working loom. Despite the lack of the exact fine spots, the discovery looks interesting as you can provide insight into the local weaving tradition. So here is the cluster of the 16 loomways found. As you can see, there are 10 loomways, or which two are fragmentary. These are truncated pyramidal in shape, weighing between 260 and 280. One burst inside the sign on the top. Over there, which might be interpreted as a decorative motif, sometimes found on local pottery. Additionally, there are three heavier truncated pyramidal loomways with the not-appered sites, the one that I usually refer to as a rectangular, and the weight more than 800 grams. There are two more loomways, different in weight and size. They are truncated pyramids, but much thinner than the others we just saw. One of these bears inside our glass decoration, common in the local pottery. Finally, there is a rectangular prism object, which might be a loomway, with two holes through the long side. Although it's not quite clear that these loomways constituted a complete set, which anyway, in my opinion, is likely, it's interesting that these loomways are not randomly different. More interesting, a similar combination of heavy and light loomways was found somewhere else at the site, which I'm going to show you in a while. My analysis tried to answer the question whether the heavy and the light loomways would work all together, and why there were different groups of loomways. So, I applied the calculation for potential loom setups as developed by CTR. The calculation with the light loomways showed that they would work better with a work-thread tension of approximately 10, 20 gram. Also, they might have been suitable for working with the 30 gram tension, although these four work-thread per centimeter is a limit value in the CTR guidelines, thus it cannot be taken as a sharp division. Then I applied the calculation for with the other loomways, the one weighing more than 800 grams, and this demonstrates that they would work with the tension of 30 grams, or even more. So, the calculation suggests that they might have worked all together with a common thread of 30 gram tension. So in this case, skilled weavers might have worked out the work in order to get a balanced distribution of threads. However, there might be a specific reason for the presence of different distinguishable groups of loomways. For instance, weavers might have used different level of tension in order to create textiles with different appearances. Or the difference in tension, my point to the use of different twist or different yarn diameters in work. The latter case would imply the use of different raw material. Also, it is possible that a certain combination of heavier and lighter loomways could create particular decorative effects on the fabric through the natural color of plants and animal fibers. Although all of these are just speculations, it is interesting that another group of loomways show a similar combination of heavy and light loomways. This was found in house one, hella A. In room one, a cluster of 25 loomways was found to store in a bag. And the my does have belonged to a different set for different loom setups. However, if we have a closer look, we can see that again, that they are not randomly different, but it's possible to distinguish different groups of loomways on the basis of the collections, weight classes and sites. Thus, there is a group of six loomways, similar shape, weight and sites, and with identical stamp on the top. Additionally, there are three more loomways, heavier and thicker, and the rectangular shape with the not-tuppered sides and with the correction on the top. Then the remaining loomways belong to both ranges of weight and sites, which means we got a number of loomways similar to the first group with the not-decoration, and a number of loomways, like the rectangular one with not-decoration. And plus, we got a few loomways from the pyramids, but much thinner, like the ones we just saw in Portella Santana. So again, I applied the calculation for possible loom setups, Porta Veeweave, and again, it seems they can work together in the same loom setup with 10 gram tension. But one might wonder why, whether there is a specific reason for this combination of light and heavy loomways and decorated and non-decorated loomways. So this is just an ongoing research. We need for the information, we need information on the exact spots, find spots, and we, especially, we need to test all these hypotheses, but it's notable that there is a peculiar combination of light and heavy and decorated non-decorated loomways seems to be common at Monte Polizzo, which might imply the use of different yarn diameters or different raw material, and even a different techniques for tying loomways to the loom. Thank you very much.