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Excavation

  • Acropoli – Piano del Castello
  • Volterra
  • Volaterrae
  • Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Pisa
  • Volterra

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Credits

  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • TIn 2003 trench Z revealed a large ditch, of Imperial date, containing Hellenistic material. This was probably part of the levelling and re-organisation of the terrain undertaken during the sanctuary’s abandonment. This deposit, in the absence of any structures, confirms the abandoned state of the sacred area. Below emerged the Hellenistic stratigraphy whose first level consisted of a layer of obliteration directly covering the razing of the walls in trench V. The layer, which contained 2nd century B.C. material, relates to the construction of nearby temple A and the subsequent creation of a large square.

    The excavation of trench Y uncovered a probable fragment of wall from the temenos(?). (MiBAC)

Director

  • Marisa Bonamici - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa

Team

  • Anna Maria Esposito - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Research Body

  • Comune di Volterra
  • Università degli Studi di Pisa

Funding Body

  • Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra

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