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Excavation

  • La Molinara
  • Barricelle
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  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Potenza
  • Marsicovetere

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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)

  • The late antique levels were excavated, attesting the reoccupation, reuse and, in some cases, the defunctionalisation of the Antonine structures (the monumental phase of the complex). For example, the peristyle was firstly reduced in size by the positioning of an alignment of large limestone blocks, and then transformed into a work area (see above).

    The 2008-2009 campaign continued excavations in the pars rustica.
    Work continued in room 12, in the far north-eastern part of the residential quarters. During its latest occupation phase it was used as a work area, as attested by a hearth, a drain, four postholes and two domestic ovens, one in the shape of an elongated rectangle, the other square with rounded corners. The latter was connected to a reused pithos (diameter 136 cm), which was preserved to a depth of 1.10 m. The earlier occupation phase in this room was attested by a splendid opus signinum floor decorated with small white, red and blue tessera. Two late burials were uncovered in room 12, attributable to a period of sporadic occupation. The first (tomb 19) was that of an adult male in a supine position, situated in the north-west corner of the room. The second (tomb 17) contained the remains of two individuals, perhaps juveniles, laying side by side, in a supine position (the head of individual beta was resting on the left shoulder of individual alpha).

    Excavation also continued in the peristyle area, reserving many surprises. The opus signinum floor of Antonine date, had been almost completely destroyed by successive restructuring and reuses of the space. However, below it, an earlier room with a square plan came to light, the excavation of which is ongoing.

    The later levels in the rooms around the peristyle produced three more stamped tile fragments (bringing the total to 12). The stamp is in relief, within a rectangular cartouche and the abbreviated formula refers to the rich and powerful family of the Bruttii Praesentes, and in particular one well–known member, that is Caius Bruttius Praesens. He was either the grandfather or father of Bruttia Crispina, wife of the emperor Commodus. These epigraphic documents attest the importance of the villa, which during its long history became part of the patrimonium principis.

Director

  • Alfonsina Russo - Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici del Molise

Team

  • Maria Pina Gargano
  • Helga Di Giuseppe - Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Funding Body

  • ENI

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