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Excavation

  • La Pieve
  • Collemancio
  • Urvinum Hortense
  • Italy
  • Umbria
  • Province of Perugia
  • Cannara

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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)

  • In 2013, the extension of the excavations in Lots 152 and 153 renewed work in the area of the large baths complex where the Nile mosaic, now in Cannara Museum, was found. The excavation exposed an extensive and regular network of walls, all made of small sandstone fragments. They seemed to delimit a series of large rooms adjacent to the perimeter walls of the bath complex, and appeared to define the access route to the complex itself. At this point in the excavations, the construction techniques, building components and materials, in addition to their well-organised and linear arrangement, seem to suggest that the majority of the structures found do not belong to the baths complex. On the contrary, they probably relate to the late Republican and early Augustan structures incorporated into the construction of the baths themselves, during their construction in the first half of the 2nd century A.D.

    A separate trench dug in Lot 155 in order to check for the presence of structures associated with the forum area, revealed an unusual pit cut into sterile terrain. It contained a pile of iron tools (pickaxes, scythes, picks, wedges, nails) associated with a bronze stadera, a coarse ware jug and coins of late imperial and late antique date. While awaiting the conservation of these artefacts, the find is interpreted as a hoard.

    During the campaign a preliminary investigation was made of the town wall (in 171, 172, 150, 152, 149, 132/p, 151, 154/p), which uncovered sections of wall, some extensive, built of large sandstone blocks. The intervention demonstrated how, contrary to what is published on the subject, the components used, even though very badly preserved, were fairly regular and neatly placed, where possible in horizontal and parallel rows. The size and shape of the blocks often seemed conditioned by the original stratigraphy from which they were quarried. The stone was all local.

    The recording, consolidation and restoration of the walls and floors in the area of the domus excavated between 2003 and 2012 were completed during the 2013 campaign. The excavation is awaiting a roof that will not only preserve the already exposed structures, but also facilitate the termination of the excavation of the domus itself.
    Lastly, the removal of several dumps partially and temporarily restored a more natural appearance to the landscape around the site.

  • Valeria Scocca - Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia 

Director

Team

  • Marisa Scarpignato - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria
  • Maurizio Matteini Chiari - Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Sezione di Scienze Storiche dell'Antichità
  • Alessio Nalli
  • Matteo Franco
  • Matteo Mincigrucci
  • Michela D’Alessandro

Research Body

  • : Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Sezione di Scienze Storiche dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Perugia

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cannara

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