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Excavation

  • Macchia della Riserva
  • Pian delle Rusciare
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Tuscania

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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)

  • Excavations took place in three zones of the areas Pratino I and II, where four funerary structures were investigated (nos. 37, 41, 42, 43). These rock-cut chamber tombs with dromos had benches divided into loculi, separated by a passage.

    The upper levels of tomb 37 had been disturbed and these layers produced a small stone column cippus and plain ware and black gloss vases. Some parts of the tomb were intact and presented elements of the tomb group in primary deposition: a bronze mirror with incised decoration from the left bench and a group of black gloss vases (single handled small jar and kantheros ) and plain ware vessels (three small jars) to the rear of the passage. Two loculi were found intact in the shoulders of the dromos. The left hand one contained a bronze coin, a small red gloss single handled jar, three small plain ware jars and a black gloss balsamarium. The right hand locululus contained a small amphora and two small plain ware jars, a black gloss balsamarium with painted bands, a bowl and two miniature black gloss olpai.

    Tomb 41 had two chambers, both disturbed. The first, on the same axis as the dromos was not investigated due to the risk of collapse. Painted and plain ware pottery fragments were found by its entrance. A bronze lamina, parts of pottery balsamaria and human bones were found in the second chamber, at a right angle to the dromos.

    Tomb 42 was a large chamber of which only the surface levels of disturbed earth were investigated. Numerous black gloss, painted and plain ware pottery fragments were recovered, together with fragments of bronze mirrors, iron strigils and human bone.

    The vault of tomb 43 had collapsed. Elements from the tomb group were only found in situ in the first loculus on the left (five small plain ware jars), while the rest of the pottery, stone (two column cippi ) and metal (a bronze coin) finds were in secondary deposition. The dromos was intact and the loculus in the left shoulder was also intact and contained two small black gloss cups and a black gloss _ krateriskos_, a small plain ware jar, an iron strigil and human bones.

  • Stefano Giuntoli - CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies) 

Director

Team

  • Alessandra Spina
  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES
  • Sara Costantini - SBAEM
  • Silvia Nencetti - CAMNES

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale

Funding Body

  • CAMNES - Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’Medici” Firenze

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