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Excavation

  • Incoronata
  • Metaponto
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  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Matera
  • Pisticci

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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)

  • Following the digging of trial-trenches last year, excavations were reopened in September 2003 at Incoronata di Metaponto. This research aims at a fuller understanding of the site’s topography and the nature of the Greek settlement in the first half of the 7th century B.C.
    Trenches were dug on the western part of the hill, in correspondance with an obbligatory point of passage towards the route leading from the Basento valley up to the river’s source. The excavation revealed large scale terracing at a point in which the hill needed consolidating. This was composed of a deposit of pinkish, very compact soil mixed with numerous bricks, covering an area of 15 × 6m. A section cut on its south side verified its substantial depth (c. 1m) and revealed the deposit on which it rested. This was also circa 1m deep and was made up of fine earth mixed with clay and was rich in pottery. The pottery, which fits within the Incoronata chronology”, includes imports but is mainly indigenous. The building technique employed and the planning which such an imposing construction suggest appear to be coherent with other settlements in the Greek world of the proto-archaic period (see the nearby site of Siris).

  • Maria Luisa Nava - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata 

Director

  • Mario Denti - Université de Haute Bretagne-Rennes 2, Departement d’Histoire dell’Art et Archéologie Laboratoire CERAMA (Centre d’Etude et de Recherche en Archéolog

Team

  • Céline Gaslain - Université de Rennes 2
  • Django Guyon - Université de Rennes 2
  • Dominique Allios - Université de Haute Bretagne
  • Elisabetta Interdonato - Université de Rennes 2
  • Marco Di Lieto - Università degli Studi della Basilicata – responsabile documentazione grafica
  • Michèle Casanova - Maître de Conférence, Université de Rennes 2
  • Rosanna Colucci - Università degli Studi della Basilicata
  • Antonio De Siena - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Studenti - Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia dell’Università della Basilicata
  • Studenti - Université de Rennes 2

Research Body

  • Equipe d’accueil “Histoire et critique des Arts”, Université de Rennes 2

Funding Body

  • Comune di Pisticci
  • Université de Rennes 2

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