Syracuse: Preliminary Insights into the Fabric of Archaic Architectural Terracottas: Within the broader framework of a research focused on western Greek amphorae series – primarily documented at production and consumptions sites in Sicily – a sampling campaign was conducted in 2021 at the Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi in Syracuse. A total of forty-seven samples were taken from presumably locally manufactured artifacts, including roof tiles, architectural and figural terracottas, small altars, mortars, amphorae, and pithoi all dating from the Archaic to the Late Classical period. This initiative aimed to provide an initial archaeological characterisation – based on the standardised methods implemented in the FACEM database – of the principal macroscopic features of pottery potentially produced in Syracuse, a Corinthian foundation established in 734/3 BCE and one of the earliest colonies in Sicily.