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Excavation

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

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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)

  • During the 2016 campaign, work took place in seven trenches.
    In trench M, work continued on the difficult task of reconstructing the tufa altar and the trachyte votive table following restoration. Both monuments were replaced in the same position and at the same level as they were when discovered. The votive table was completed with the upper cushion, in whose surface housings are present for bronze decorations.
    In trench H, excavation continued in the atrium of the domus. A high quality floor in scutulatum with an emblema decorated with a four-petal flower was uncovered in a communicating room. A glass-making furnace dating to the 6th century A.D. was found on top of the ruins of the domus .

    In trench N-T the foundations of a new Etruscan building were partially uncovered.
    In trench R the excavation continued of the second bath complex situated east of the first: the large mosaic in the frigidarium was found, decorated with Scylla surrounded by sea monsters and dolphins, similar to the mosaic in the Baths of Neptune at Ostia. A deep pool lined with a mosaic of black tesserae opened-off from this room.
    In the south area, at a higher level than previously reached by the excavation, a kiln for the production of black glaze ware was uncovered.
    Work continued on the conservation of the finds and on interventions to enhance the site.

  • Simonetta Stopponi- Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Lettere, Lingue, Letterature e Civiltà antiche e moderne  

Director

Team

  • Simone Moretti Giani
  • Nicola Bruni
  • Alba Frascarelli- University of Arizona Study Abroad program
  • Alessandro Giacobbi
  • Danilo Leone
  • Giovanni Vergineo
  • Luca Millo
  • Marco Cruciani
  • Silvia Simonetti
  • Vincenzo Valenzano
  • Francesca Bellagamba
  • Stefania Pompili

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Lettere, Lingue, Letterature e Civiltà antiche e moderne

Funding Body

  • Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto

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