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Excavation

  • Teano
  • Teano
  • Teanum Sidicinum
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Teano

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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)

  • Excavations have restarted of the theatre at Teanum Sidicinum have restarted. A pilot campaign of geophysical survey (resistivity) was undertaken on the terrace behind the cavea, which ascertained the presence of multi-stratified structures. Often on diverging alignments, the structures will be looked at with the aim of identifying a porticus pone scaenam.

    In the area of the summa cavea, where W. Johannowsky had supposed the existence of a sanctuary in summa gradinatione, a well organised architectural complex of great interest was discovered.

    The study of the considerable number of architectural elements recovered from the theatre’s scaena during past excavations is of great importance, particularly in view of the possibility of an anastylosis of the stage façade being undertaken by the architect Heinz Beste as part of an agreement stipulated with the Deutsch Archaeologische Institut of Rome.

    A small modern farm house standing on the seating tiers was restored and the medieval levels that had formed in the cavea were also removed. These layers were rich in glazed ware, archaic majolica and banded pottery datable to between the 11th and 12th century. A small kiln for tile and brick production also dated to this period, as did the creation of terraces for agricultural purposes in the media cavea. This was achieved through the construction of a containing wall and the removal of the rubble of the ancient structure.

  • Stefano De Caro - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Francesco Sirano - Soprintendenza per i beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Team

  • Paul S. Johnson - University of Southampton
  • Virginia D’Avino - Società Cooperativa a r.l. Opus
  • Alfredo Balasco
  • F. Casule

Research Body

  • Istituto Archeologico Germanico di Roma
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta
  • The British School at Rome

Funding Body

  • Gioco del Lotto
  • Progetto Grandi Teatri della Campania Settentrionale

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