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Excavation

  • Poggiarello Renzetti
  • Vetulonia
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  • Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Provincia di Grosseto
  • Castiglione della Pescaia

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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 2017 campaign concentrated on the front part of the residential structure denominated Domus dei Dolia situated in the centre of the Etrusco-Roman urban quarter partially excavated by Isidoro Falchi in the late 1800s in the locality of Poggiarello Renzetti. The rear part of the structure was built up against the hill and therefore a substantial part of the walls was preserved. However, the front of the domus is on a flat area later used for agricultural purposes and has been badly damaged by the construction of a terrace wall that has “cut” the entire house in two, and by ploughing and the creation of an olive grove.

    The excavations investigated three crucial points in the front part of the building. These were constituted, from east to west, by the continuation of the paved road that emerged between the Domus dei Dolia and the adjacent Domus “with cistern”, the arrangement of rooms along the facade and the alignment of the latter’s perimeter, the identification of which was important for finding the entrance to the house and the basalt road onto which it faced.

    In the first area (area O), the excavations uncovered the original make-up for the basalt road to the east of the house and the original drainage channels on either side of it. The investigation here further clarified the chronological relationship between the creation of the road and its channels, and the cut made on the paved surface for the creation of a deep drainage channel along the perimeter wall of the domus. The materials recovered during the excavation of the channel’s east parapet provided a useful terminus post quem for the construction of the channel and of the domus, in what appears to be is definitive monumental layout, sometime after the end of the 4th century B.C.

    In the second area (area P), situated in the eastern part of the house front, the excavations revealed the presence of a new room delimited to the south-west by walls forming a right angle, on the same alignment as the walls forming the sequence of rooms along the rear of the domus, representing the final occupation phase. The remains of an opus signinum floor emerged in the room in area P, in which there were two Roman asses of the prow series and a silver fourrée with the head of Juno _Sospita on the obverse and a bull and the legend attributing its emission to the _triumvir _ monetalis Lucius Thorius Balbus on the reverse. This provides a date within the first decades of the 1st century B.C. that is coherent with that of the probable destruction of the domus and the entire residential quarter of Poggiarello Renzetti in the Sullan period as part of the reprisals undertaken by the Roman consul following his victory over Marius and his allies.

    In the third area (area Q) the excavation concentrated on identifying the north perimeter wall of the domus. The wall was found a short distance from the new room in area P. The basalt road denominated Via dei Ciclopi must have run north of this wall and parted at a right angle from the Via decumana to run parallel to the Via Ripida in the direction of the basalt road between the Domus dei Dolia and the Domus “with cistern”. Together these roads formed the urban grid within which the Hellenistic residential quarters of Poggiarello Renzetti were situated.

Director

  • Biancamaria Aranguren - Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo
  • Simona Rafanelli - Direttore scientifico del museo di Vetulonia.

Team

  • Costanza Quaratesi – Museo Civico Archeologico Isidoro Falchi di Vetulonia
  • Giada Valdambrini – Museo Civico Archeologico Isidoro Falchi di Vetulonia
  • Luisa Zito – Museo Civico Archeologico Isidoro Falchi di Vetulonia
  • Carlotta Saletti - Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • Martino Maioli - - Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • Simona Pozzi – Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo
  • Paolo Nannini – Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo
  • Davide Squillace – Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Mauro Rossi, Liliano Rossi, Osvaldo Barbetti, Luigi Rafanelli - Associazione Culturale Archeologica Isidoro Falchi

Research Body

  • Museo Civico Archeologico Isidoro Falchi di Vetulonia
  • Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo
  • Università degli Studi di Perugia

Funding Body

  • Associazione Culturale Mosaico di Castiglione della Pescaia
  • Banca di Credito Cooperativo della Maremma
  • C.M. Studio S.r.l. di Pavia
  • Comune di Castiglione della Pescaia
  • Gea Commerciale S.p.a. di Grosseto

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