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Excavation

  • Siris-Herakleia
  • Policoro
  • Siris, Herakleia
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Matera
  • Policoro

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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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Periods

  • No period data has been added yet

Season

    • During the last years there has been a steadily increasing collaboration between the University of Basilicata and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata. Siris-Herakleia is one of the key sites standing in the focus of our collaborativ... Read More
    • In 2014, a new programme of Franco-Italian excavations began on the site of ancient Herakleia di Lucania, today Policoro. These were carried out by the Department of Archaeological Heritage at Matera (University of Basilicata), the École Pratique des Haute... Read More
    • In 2015, the second campaign continued excavations in the three sectors opened in 2014. On the Castle hill, work continued in trench A, situated in the courtyard of the large porticoed building in insula I of the central quarter. A new pit and other rema... Read More
    • In insula I of the central quarter (Trench A), the 2017 campaign was able to date several phases of reorganisation, construction and destruction during the Hellenistic period. A preliminary analysis suggests the first construction phase of the porticoed ... Read More
    • This season, in insula 1 of the central quarter (Sector A), the excavation of the entire building was completed, concentrating the investigation on rooms 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12 (according to the nomenclature of the Adamesteanu excavations).

      The materials

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  • 1400 BC
  • 700 BC
  • 250 AD