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Excavation

  • Brindisi, via Osanna nn. 7-11
  • Brindisi
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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)

    • Between 2005 and 2007, excavations took place in four buildings on via Cappuccini and its continuation via Osanna: in via Osanna 49 in 2005, on the adjoining building site in via Cappuccini 1 and in via Osanna 78, in 2006 and in via Osanna 31 in 2007.

      The 271 burials found between 2005 and 2007, constitute an important sample of middle-low class burials. The status was attested by the tomb type, grave goods, and the epigraphy, which confirmed that the burials with in situ stele belonged to freeborn individuals, slaves and freedmen. In addition, 14 burials were found in via Osanna 7-14.

      The excavations took place between the 7th September and the 25th November.
      The identified burials, dating to the 1st-2nd centuries A.D., were cremations inside ceramic jars (fig. 1), inhumations in tile-lined graves with various types of covering (figs. 2-3), and inhumations in earth graves covered by terracotta and stone elements (fig. 4).

      Four tile-lined graves were wedged under the present via Osanna and were only photographed.
      Funerary stele were found in the area that were no longer in association with the burials.
      The excavations reached the bedrock in which the earliest burials were cut (fig. 4) and the construction site level.

    • Assunta Cocchiaro 

    Director

    • Assunta Cocchiaro

    Team

    • Paola Palazzo

    Research Body

    • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia

    Funding Body

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