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Excavation

  • Campo Santa Maria
  • Amiternum
  • Santa Maria di Amiternum
  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of L'Aquila
  • L'Aquila

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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 excavation results made it possible to reconstruct the site’s settlement dynamics from the full imperial period until the 14th century, when the abandoned site was systematically robbed. Previous campaigns revealed the walls of an imperial domus with several phases, and the aspe areas of two cult buildings, one dating to the 6th and the other to the 7th century A.D.
    The 2017 campaign concentrat6ed on the area originally occupied by the main body of the 7th century church (Building A), whose apse was investigated during the 2013-2016 seasons.

    Work continued on the three stratigraphic deposits clearly divided and delimited by the surviving walls:
    Area 4: constituted by the central nave of Building A and delimited by the blocking that closed the apse to the north (USM 254) and the arches of the side aisles (USM 253 to the east and 255 to the west);
    Areas 3, 3b and 8: constitute the original NE side aisle of Building A, bordered to the NW by the exedra belonging to the second phase of the domus (USM 251) and a structure belonging to the same building (USM 280), to the SW by the blocking of the lateral arches datable to the 9th-10th century phases (USM 252) and the late medieval narrowing of the 11th-12th century (USM 253), and to the NE by the structures attributable to another building of the classical period (USM 918), which remains to be completely investigated.

    The original NE side aisle of Building A was subdivided into three areas as walls USM 245 and 923, identified during previous campaigns, delimited three distinct stratigraphic deposits.

    The apse (USM 400-293), the rear wall (USM 256), the impost pilasters of the side aisles (USM 514 to the E and USM 508 to the W), two column base with torus moulding identified as a dividing element between the central nave and the W side aisle (USM 517 and 1088), and the two columns still in situ, which sparated the central nave from the NE aisle (USM 1123 and 1124) can be attributed to the first phase of building A (7th century). The pilaster (USM 1125), c. 2 m wide, identified at the south-eastern end of the excavation area, on the continuation of wall USM 253, can also be attributed to Building A.

    The blocking of the arches separating the central nave from the NE aisle (USM 515 and 1087, 1393) can be attributed to the 9th-10th century phases. In the 12th-13th century phases, the church building in Area 4 was narrowed, causing the side aisles to become external when the new lateral walls (USM 253 and 255), c. 2 m wide, together with the new transverse wall (USM 932) that may be considered a moving back of the facade or a division between the quadratum populi and quadratum cleri were built.

  • Alfonso Forgione, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila- Dipartimento di Scienze Umane 

Director

  • Alfonso Forgione, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila- Dipartimento di Scienze Umane

Team

  • Fabio Lorenzetti - Università dell'Aquila
  • Roberto Campanella - Università dell'Aquila
  • Enrico Siena - Università dell'Aquila

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane
  • Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane

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