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Excavation

  • Campo della Fiera
  • Campo della Fiera
  • Velzna

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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)

    • Six trenches were excavated. In trench H, the entire perimeter of the church of San Pietro in vetere was exposed, including the discovery of the front facade wall. Trench N revealed another sector of the Etruscan Via Sacra. In trench R, the excavation of a late antique domus was completed. The structure was built on the ruins of the baths, which were also fully excavated following the bathers route from the apodyterion (paved in opus spicatum) to the praefurnium. In trench M, the trachyte stone votive table and monolithic tufa altar were moved in order to be conserved, both having been damaged by the severe rain that hit the area in November 2012. An interesting terracotta male head with a moulded base emerged from below the tufa altar.

      Another trench (X) was opened when Etruscan structures were exposed during the re-laying of a modern road. The trench revealed a tufa building which unfortunately continued below the garden of a house. A platform of tufa slabs was found next to one of the structure’s walls. One of the slabs had a hole in it to allow the liquid offerings to the Chthonic deities to sink into the earth. In the South Area, at the highest level reached by the investigations to date, substantial layers of colluvial deposit were removed, thus exposing the remains of Etruscan structures, including a channel taking water to the fountain that had previously emerged at about 4 m lower down.

    • Simonetta Stopponi - Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Sezione di Scienze Storiche dell'Antichtà 

    Director

    Team

    • Maria Cristina De Angelis
    • Simone Moretti Giani
    • Anna Riva
    • Nicola Bruni
    • Alba Frascarelli
    • Alessandro Giacobbi - Università degli Studi di Perugia
    • Claudio Bizzarri
    • Danilo Leoni
    • Marco Cruciani
    • Paolo Binaco
    • Silvia Simonetti
    • Marco Broncoli
    • Stefania Pompili

    Research Body

    • Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche – Sez. Scienze Storiche dell’Antichità

    Funding Body

    • Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto

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