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Excavation

  • Gabi
  • Tenuta di Castiglione e Pantano Borghese
  • Gabii
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Rome

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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)

  • The 2017 excavation season of the Gabii Project (Mogetta Becker 2014) in the Archaeological Park of Gabii took place as usual between June and July. It was the ninth season in a row. The field operations had been concentrated around four sectors, each of them representing different stratigraphic basins delimited by built up features and key topographical elements. Just one of these sectors, was newly opened, whereas in the others the investigation had already started in 2016.

    In Area C, the investigations were carried out mostly in the southern sector of the atrium house stretching across the whole city block (Mogetta- Becker 2014; Gallone- Mogetta 2013). The excavation under the Republican sequence has shown evidence referring to the Archaic and Orientalizing Age The evidence consists mostly of occupation levels, post-holes, possible hut foundation trenches connected with the hut compound adjoining the one discovered few years ago in Area D (see Fasti 2014 and 2015).

    The Area G-H is a vast sector including sections of two city blocks overlooking the main thoroughfare to the North and to the South respectively (Mogetta 2014). In Area G the excavation was carried out in the front of the city block occupied by an Imperial building, later crowded with dry little walls, arranged in rough parallel lines and made of stones, architectonic fragments and pottery sherds. The excavation of some of these dry walls allowed to expose the level on which they were built, that has provided a crucial 5th c. BCE terminus post quem. In the Area G instead the excavation of the Imperial sequence has revealed the Republican floors and walls built in local tuff ashlar. Some of these are facing toward a wide open area at the main road crossing of the city. Furthermore, it has been identified a smithing facility most likely dating to the abandonment phase of the 5th c. CE.

    In Area I, facing the main thoroughfare (Mogetta 2014), the excavation was carried out within the productive complex dating between the 2nd and the 3rd c. CE, reaching the early Imperial and Republican levels. These levels, unfortunately, have been deeply impacted by the later re-functionalization of the complex. Furthermore the excavation area has been extended to the west bringing to light some ten new rooms. The investigation was here mainly limited to the destruction and abandonment levels dating to the 4th c. CE. The function of this section of the complex seems not to be related to productive activities even if it is characterized by an articulated hydraulic system.
    Finally, the investigation of the new area, named J, focused on the road cross between the main thoroughfare (Via Gabina) and the NO-SE artery stretching out from it (Via Prenestina). The excavation of the fill of the NE-SO ditch, cutting through the whole central sector of Gabii, allowed to record the sequence under the preserved basalt paving of the Via Gabina. Various earlier road levels had been reviled, spanning from the early Republican Age to the Imperial time. The ditch instead seems to be a late Antique defensive feature marking the abandonment of the road system.

    The 2017 excavation season confirmed the extensive nature of the Orientalizing deposits and yielded new data on the Republican and Imperial phases. Even more importantly, it has provided substantial evidence for the re-use and re- occupation of the site during the late antique age and possible even later.

  • Anna Gallone-Gabii Project 

Director

  • Nicola Terrenato

Team

  • Ivano Taranto
  • J. Marilyn Evans - University of California, Berkeley
  • Alexandra Creola - University of Michigan
  • Arianna Zapelloni Pavia- University of Michiga
  • Christina Cha -Florida State University
  • Giordano Iacomelli - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Parrish Wright- University of Michigan
  • Sabian Hasani- University of Michigan
  • Shannon Ness- University of Michigan
  • Sheira Cohen- University of Michigan
  • Carlo Monda
  • Kathrine Beydler- University of Michigan
  • Victoria Moses- University of Arkansas
  • Andrew Johnston - Yale University
  • Laura Banducci-Carlton University
  • Laura Motta (University of Michigan)
  • Marcello Mogetta- University of Missouri
  • Alison Rittershaus (University of Michigan)
  • Elisabeth Robison - University of Texas
  • J. Troy Samuels- University of Michigan
  • Jason Farr - University of Michigan
  • Rachel S. Opitz - University of Arkansas CAST
  • Emanuele Casagrande Cicci (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
  • Matt Naglak- University of Michigan
  • Rebecca Levitan - University of California Berkley
  • Tyler Johnson- CAST, University of Arkansas

Research Body

  • Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.)
  • The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.)

Funding Body

  • Fiat - Chrysler Foundation
  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation
  • National Endowment for Humanities
  • National Geographic Society
  • The University of Michigan (Provost’s office, Rackham Graduate School, The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Department of Classical Studies)

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