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Excavation

  • Campo della Fiera
  • Campo della Fiera
  • Velzna
  • Italy
  • Umbria
  • Province of Terni
  • Orvieto

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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 2007 campaign confirmed the exceptional continuity of occupation on the site of Campo della Fiera. In the area of the sacred enclosure a stretch of basalt paving came to light parallel to the south wall of the temple podium identified in 2006. The fill was removed from the western room of the structure, where the opus signinum paving with white tesserae was no longer preserved. This produced fragments of Attic pottery and bucchero, as well as part of a disc-shaped acroteria. East of the temple two altars emerged, one a tufa monolith, the other, of considerable size (circa 3 × 2.80 m), made of trachyte.

    The materials recovered included Attic black and red figure pottery, Etruscan architectural terracottas and a mould, probably of Magna-Grecian type. Continuity was attested by pottery and Roman coins.
    East of the enclosure more of the Etruscan basalt road inside the sanctuary was cleared. A stretch of the kerb was cut revealing an earlier road. This was also paved with basalt and was dated to the archaic period by the presence of black bucchero. The road, presumably the via sacra, was intercepted and broken in the Roman period by an opus reticulatum wall which ran around the rooms of a bath building.
    The exedra of these rooms, with mosaic pavements, were built on top of the Etruscan road whose surface was raised to the height of the foundation offsets of the exedra. Much earlier stone elements were used to raise the floor level, such as Etruscan altars and statue fragments in Greek marble.

    In the post-Classical period numerous burials overlay both the road and the bath buildings. These were earth graves (6th-7th century A.D.) and “a cassone” tombs of tufa (8th-9th century), which probably related to the nearby church of S. Pietro in vetere, in whose foundations fragments of Carolingian plutei were found.

    In the South Area, where in 2006 structures relating to a fountain (including a late archaic drip in the form of a lion), to an enclosure in tufa ashlar blocks and to the imposing base of a building (mostly hidden by the hill scarp) came to light. The base was excavated and revealed to be comprised of a foundation of three rows of ashlar blocks set into place end on. In this sector fragments of Villanovan pottery were found in secondary deposition, as they were present in layers with Attic pottery and bucchero. To date no Roman remains have been found in this sector.

  • Simonetta Stopponi - Università degli Studi di Macerata, dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storiche dell’Antichità 

Director

Team

  • Paolo Bruschetti - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria
  • Simone Moretti Giani
  • Nicola Bruni
  • Claudia Giontella - Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali
  • Claudio Bizzarri
  • Marco Broncoli

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Macerata, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storiche dell’Antichità

Funding Body

  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  • Università degli Studi di Macerata

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