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Excavation

  • Interamna Lirenas
  • Contrada Termine
  • Interamna Lirenas
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Frosinone
  • Pignataro Interamna

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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)

  • The 2017 campaign has brought to light the entire plan of the theatre, also bringing to completion the excavation of the orchestra , the pulpitum , the lateral basilicae and the aditus maximi . Inside the main hall, very few (scattered) fragments of dark grey marble are what remains of the flooring of the orchestra. The proscaenium wall (in opus testaceum) is in very bad conditions, for the most part surviving at foundation level. As for the scaena , it is now confirmed that a rich columnatio , featuring imported marbles from all over the Mediterranean, belongs to a second phase.
    Along the SW side of the building, the central room beneath the cavea has been excavated: directly connected with the outside, it was originally paved with tiles, on top of which a wall in stones bound with mortar was later erected (closing its NE side). One of the secondary entrances has been excavated too: it featured a staircase to the media/summa cavea , of which only the lower step is in fact preserved. In front of it, within a spoliation level, a stone sundial was recovered: it is exceptionally well-preserved and it is inscribed with the name of the person who covered its cost (a certain Marcus Novius Tubula).

    The geophysical prospection (GPR) within the urban area has been completed, producing an impressively detailed plan of the town, featuring a dense settlement pattern and a hitherto under-estimated monumental character.

  • Giovanna R. Bellini (Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Frosinone, Latina e Rieti) 
  • Alessandro Launaro (University of Cambridge) 
  • Martin J. Millett (University of Cambridge) 

Director

  • Alessandro Launaro (University of Cambridge)
  • Giovanna R. Bellini (Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Frosinone, Latina e Rieti)
  • Martin J. Millett (University of Cambridge)

Team

  • Alessandro Launaro (University of Cambridge)
  • Ninetta Leone (University of Cambridge)

Research Body

  • British School at Rome
  • Soprintendenza Archeologia del Lazio e dell’Etruria Meridionale
  • University of Cambridge

Funding Body

  • Comune di Pignataro Interamna
  • Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge)
  • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge)

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