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Excavation

  • Elea-Velia
  • Ascea
  • Elea-Velia
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Salerno
  • Casal Velino

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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 2016 excavations concentrated on the mid to late imperial settlement, identified in the western sector of the southern quarter during the 2000-2001 investigations. Four sondages were opened in order to check the stratigraphy of the archaeological deposits inside Building II and in the area of a narrow road that separated the latter from Building III.

    In trench 02.8 (Building II, room 5), the entire sequence reaching the late imperial phase and characterised by alluvial events was documented. The perimeter walls of room 5 were preserved to a height of about 2 m, while the floor surfaces appeared to be made of beaten earth. The excavations reached the early imperial levels and those of the Hellenistic period. The walls were built directly on the earlier razed structures, conserving their alignment.

    Trench 02.9 (Building II, room 1) explored the limited surface of a structure, at present interpreted as a possible stairwell, delimited by a cordon of reused parallelepiped blocks, and positioned in the external courtyard, abutting the building’s perimeter wall. The excavation uncovered the levels that obliterated the structure following an alluvial event in the late imperial period.

    Trench 02.10 (road between Buildings II and III, positioned in the area of the narrow side-road separating Buildings II and III, was opened in order to clarify the nature of a row of stones just emerging at the level reached during the 2000-2001 excavations. The hypothesis that a wall from an earlier structure was removed during the construction of buildings II and III in the late imperial phase was confirmed. There were also significant traces of the early imperial structure, constituted by a threshold and an opus signinum floor.

    In Trench 02.11 (Building II, room 4), the effects of the alluvial events were documented, involving part of the possible domestic furnishings, constituted by transport containers, of African production, found in fragments on the floor. The latter was a mosaic of which a small patch was preserved abutting the south-west perimeter wall, while its make up of crushed tile, was quite well-preserved and present across the whole trench.

  • Luigi Cicala - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 

Director

Team

  • Camilla Cittadini - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Michele Cotugno - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Francesca De Matteo - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Vincenzo Giordano - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Teresa Tescione - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Maria Luisa Tardugno - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Funding Body

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