ABSTRACT
Excavations of the Church of the Tithe have revealed two types of flooring, one made of slabs of variegated marble, porphyry and smalt, and the other of glazed ceramic tiles. The marble used was undoubtedly of Greek origin, so it is clear that it was imported from Byzantium. However, after that, in the eleventh century, there was no further use of marble and the floors were made exclusively of either local materials or artificial materials, which were also manufactured locally.1
