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Excavation

  • Iuvanum
  • Santa Maria di Palazzo
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  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of Chieti
  • Montenerodomo

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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 excavations undertaken between 12th July-13th August concentrated on the western sector of the forum. Area 4 (17,7 × 4,50 m), was opened to the west of the 2009 excavation (Area 3).

    Area 3

    In Area 3 it was decided to only continue with the investigation of Room 4 and Room 3, as the walls of rooms 5 and 6 were linked to the new excavation area.

    Room 3

    The layers identified and excavated in Room 3 related to cuts and fills from the various construction phases already identified in previous campaigns.
    Trenches were dug in the eastern part of the area, defined as the entrance. A lead pipe on a S-W alignment was found on an opus signinum floor. The discovery of a bronze follis below this floor provided a terminus post quem for the construction of the floor itself.

    Room 4

    The removal of the fill from the pits was completed. A compact red layer was seen in correspondence with the eastern edges of the cut, probably relating to a floor surface that had been exposed to intense heat. The bottom of the pit, whose walls were lined with clay, was reached at a depth of -25.01. A tile with its lateral flanges facing upwards lay on the pit floor. Numerous parallelepiped glass paste tesserae were found both in the layers of fill and in those of the surrounding area.

    Also cut by pit US -938 were US954 tangent to USM866 to the north; 906 to the north-west; 871 to the west and 874 to the east. This layer, containing a considerable quantity of iron nails in the western zone, showed no signs of contact with heat as, on the contrary, was attested for most of the area in question. The use of this room for production rather than residential purposes was confirmed by the presence of charcoal and two non-contiguous tiles forming a cooking area. They presented the characteristic fractures caused by exposure to fire.

    In synthesis a continuity of use for this room may be surmised, which saw the overlaying of production phases identified by thin layers almost all of which preserving traces of exposure to fire. It was not possible to identify a floor level, however as the research stands, a certain continuity may be suggested between what seemed (in section) to be the upper limit of US -938, and the foundation offset visible in USM 866.

    Area 4

    The walls all appeared preserved at a constant level. It seems plausible to suggest a voluntary levelling of the area with the destruction of the walls and subsequent accumulation of rubble. Inside Area 4 four rooms were identified, denominated Room 2, Room 3 Impluvium, Room 5 and Room 6.

    Room 3 Impluvium

    The impluvium structure was filled with a layer consisting almost entirely of limestone ashlar blocks and brick fragments, sandy-clay and a high density of tegulae, imbrices and plaster fragments of the type still in situ in the surrounding structures. The presence of tegulae in an oblique ascending position, below the perimeter cornice, suggests a sudden and violent collapse, perhaps caused by the earthquake of 346 A.D.?? below the collapse was the floor of the impluvium pool, built of limestone slabs.

    Room 2

    The definition of different walls, all however belonging to one original structure, was dictated by the fact that part of wall USM 855 was seen to have been removed in order to create a niche. Polychrome wall plaster was still in situ on a section of the wall, whilst on the part further to the east two overlying layers of plaster were preserved.

  • Patrizia Staffilani - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Studi Classici dall’Antico al Contemporaneo,  

Director

  • Raffaella Papi - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Studi Classici dall’Antico al Contemporaneo

Team

  • Marida De Menna - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Sandro Ranellucci - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Alessandro Mucciante - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Valeria Acconcia - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Pierfrancesco Porena - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Giulio Firpo - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Vienna Tordone - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

Funding Body

  • Fondazione Carichieti

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