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Excavation

  • Prato Felici
  • Orto dé Cunto, Segni
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Segni

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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 first season of excavation in the area of Prato Felici at Segni forms part of the wider Segni Project, launched in 2012 by the Archaeological Museum of Segni and the British School at Rome. Over the course of the next 3 years, the project will explore three areas within the town: Prato Felici, Piazza Santa Maria and Piazza San Pietro.

    The area of Prato Felici lies towards the summit of the acropolis, and is defined by a large open field, where the fieldwork focused in particular upon two parallel walls, approximately 30m apart, visible on the surface. Following a gradiometer and georadar survey conducted by the BSR and APSS, the surface clearance involved the removal of a significant amount of topsoil that had accumulated on the terraces of the steep field directly above Porta Foca.

    The excavation revealed evidence for a large cistern or pool, the construction of which can be dated to the second half of the 2nd century BC. The walls were constructed in opera cementizia, with the floor surface constructed in a thick layer of cocciopesto (40cm). The structure appears to have gone out of use in the 2nd century AD, and was later reused in the late antique period as revealed by a small hearth and associated material.

    Immediately to the south of the structure, as well as beneath the cistern, the excavation revealed several stratigraphic layers which contained material associated to the earliest phases of settlement in the city, dating to the late Bronze Age.

    Furthermore, to the east of the structure, as well as underneath the cocciopesto, the excavation recovered material dating to the end of the 7th century BC amongst which was bucchero and a fragment of a head of a votive offering.

  • Stephen Kay - The British School at Rome 

Director

  • Christopher Smith - The British School at Rome
  • Francesco Maria Cifarelli - Museo Archeologico Comunale di Segni

Team

  • Arianna Salustri - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Cian O'Halloran - University of Dublin
  • Daniel Redhead - Durham University
  • Deborah Halliday - Durham University
  • Dimosthenis Kosmopoulos - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
  • Edward Peveler - Oxford University
  • Francesco Felici - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Francesco Tranchini - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Imelda Gergely - University of Szeged
  • Joe Williams - Durham University
  • Katie McCann - Trinity College Dublin
  • Laura Gizzi - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Leandro Cucinotta - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
  • Lily Withycombe-Taperell - University of Royal Holloway, London
  • Maria Antonietta Molle - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Michela Ricelli - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Monika Koroniova - University of Praga
  • Phoebe Dingemans - Durham University
  • Rebecca Salem - University College London
  • Stefania Valenta - Museo Archeologico di Segni
  • Tomáš Jirák - University of Brno
  • Tuukka Kaikkonen - University of Cambridge
  • William Tyson - Durham University
  • Marco Navarra
  • Federica Colaiacomo - Museo Archeologico Comunale di Segni
  • Alice James - The British School at Rome
  • Camilla Panzieri - The British School at Rome
  • Elizabeth Richley - The British School at Rome
  • Letizia Ceccarelli - University of Cambridge

Research Body

  • Museo Archeologico Comunale di Segni
  • The British School at Rome

Funding Body

  • Comune di Segni
  • Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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