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Excavation

  • Senigallia, via Baroccio, 72
  • Senigallia
  • Sena Gallica

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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 was the second rescue excavation within the “Archeologia Urbana a Senigallia” project (see entry for Via Cavallotti 24, in Fasti On Line). The investigation began, as usual, with an exhaustive geo-physical survey. The subsequent stratigraphic investigations revealed a complex dating to the earliest phases of the Roman colony of Sena Gallica.

      In the eastern sector of the excavation, two quadrangular structures situated side by side (6.50 m east-west x 4.70 m north-south) were uncovered. They were built of horizontally placed tiles bonded with clay and gravel mortar. A sandstone cippus was “incorporated” into the southernmost building, around which traces of ritual activity were found, and which must have stood on the site prior to the construction of the other buildings.

      In the western part of the excavation, a vast robber trench came to light (12.50 m north-south x 2.60 m east-west). The fill still contained numerous fragments of yellow sandstone which it is suggested came from the town walls.

      The following stratigraphic sequence was documented: in a first phase, the area must have been used for ritual activities centred around the cippus, with a series of votive deposits of black gloss cups and paterae (placed upside down and fragmented). Subsequently, the area was monumentalised through the construction of two (cult) buildings – ritually – incorporating the earlier cippus. At the same time, the western part of the excavation saw the construction of the town walls.

      It is difficult to provide a precise chronology. The complex dates to the beginning of the 3rd century B.C., however the hypothesis is being considered that the two macro-phases identified may be linked to the two dates given for the foundation of Sena: 290 B.C. the first occupation of the site and 284 B.C. the beginning of its monumentalisation (urban walls and transformation of the sanctuary).

    • Giuseppe Lepore - Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Archeologia 

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    Team

    • Elena Maini - ArcheoLaBio, Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di Bologna
    • Emanuele Mandolini - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Marche
    • Federica Boschi - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Archeologia
    • Francesco Belfiori - Università di Bologna
    • Maria Letizia Carra - ArcheoLaBio, Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di Bologna
    • Mauro De Donatis - Università degli Studi di Urbino
    • Michele Silani - Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di Bologna
    • Simone Luchetti

    Research Body

    • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Marche
    • Università degli Studi di Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", Dipartimento di Archeologia

    Funding Body

    • Comune di Senigallia

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