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Excavation

  • Coppa Nevigata
  • Manfredonia
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    • 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)

    • This season, a smaller area than usual was excavated, particularly compared to the last campaign, which took place in 2017. The following sectors were investigated: F3B, F3C, G3H, H3A, H3E and H3F.
      In sectors F3B and F3C, the excavation continued of a quadrangular structure delimited by a low dry-stone wall, and of the immediately adjacent area. Successive floor levels were removed inside the structure and a small channel was exposed in the southern part, which probably relates to the construction of a wall in perishable materials. Outside the structure, there were traces of the accumulation of a series of levels coeval with the occupation of the structure.

      In sectors G3H, H3A, H3E, and H3F the levels relating to traces of burnt structures and an adjacent area were investigated. Evidence of the effects of a fire were identified in previous years, but this season’s excavations revealed, in H3A and in the northern part of H3E, the base floor, interrupted to the north by a large trench caused by the mechanical digger in 1979. Numerous fragments of baked clay and elements of carbonised wood had fallen onto the floor; these were removed for analysis. The flooe was bordered by a slight hollow. The creation of this floor appears to have cut the earlier levels. To the southeast of it, in sectors H3E and H3F, underneath abundant baked clay remains (perhaps from a collapsed wall), several parallel rows of medium sized stones were exposed. Therefore, in this was probably also a covered structure, but the interpretation of its function is made difficult by the presence of these rows of stones, for which no parallels have been found in coeval contexts. The south-western part of H3E and the part of G3H not removed by the digger in 1979 seem to have been occupied by an open area, with the presence of small hearths and holes, perhaps for posts, but whose distribution in plan is difficult to interpret.

      The materials recovered include Mycenaen type pottery, a fragment from a worked bone disc decorated with small circles and a large pin with a globular head.

    • Alberto Cazzella 

    Director

    Team

    • Cristina Lemorini- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
    • Enrico Lucci
    • Rachele Modesto- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
    • Vittorio Mironti- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
    • Claudia Minniti
    • Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin – Università del Salento
    • Giulia Recchia- Università di Foggia
    • Maurizio Moscoloni- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
    • Marco Bettelli - Istituto per gli Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico-CNR
    • Paolo Bellintani - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Trentino
    • Sara T. Levi - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
    • Massimo Caldara- Università di Bari
    • Oronzo Simone - Università degli Studi di Bari
    • Cosimo d’Oronzo - Università di Lecce
    • Donatella Magri - Sapienza Università di Roma, Italiano di Paleontologia Umana
    • Girolamo Fiorentino - Università del Salento
    • Lucio Calcagnile - Centro di Datazione e Diagnostica (CEDAD), Università di Lecce

    Research Body

    • Istituto per gli Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico del CNR
    • Università del Salento
    • Università di Bari
    • Università di Foggia
    • Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
    • Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

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