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Excavation

  • Grumentum, Foro
  • Grumentum
  • Grumentum
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Potenza
  • Grumento Nova

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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 University of Verona’s excavations in the forum of Grumentum continued in August 2011. The excavation of the room to the east of the Caesarium defined the relationships between the paving levels close to the temple itself. The construction site for the building of the monument overlay a paving containing Augustan material; the paving in phase with the temple was only identified at a distance of a few metres from the monument itself; the first paving abutting the temple was that of Julio-Claudian date. A trench was opened outside the above-mentioned room, with the aim of examining the structures that bordered it. This revealed a dump containing a large quantity of materials, datable from the late Republican period to the first two centuries of the empire, and burnt patches.

    The excavation of the round temple, east of the Capitolium, revealed elements suggesting that the temple was constructed between the end of the Augustan period and the Tiberian period. It is possible that it was also part of the same architectural project as the Caesarium, the forum portico and, probably, the basilica. The portico flanking the temple, already identified by survey, was exposed in the northern part of the monument. Here, two columns and part of the fresco emerged. The columns and the portico’s back wall were razed to the ground when the Capitolium was constructed (towards the mid 1st century A.D.). The back wall behind the temple was frescoed with a trellis motif, in yellow and white on a dark blue background, while the northern part was painted red, with part of a painted panel preserved at the end of the surviving wall. Several patches of the paving preceding the building of the temple were uncovered by its steps.

    The investigations included a vast survey using a gradiometer in the forum, the area east of the forum and east of the church of S. Maria Assunta.

  • Attilio Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Verona 

Director

Team

  • Barbara Lepri - Università di Roma
  • Elisa Lerco - Università di Verona
  • Elisa Tomasella - Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
  • Enrico Cirelli - Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Fabio Saggioro - Università degli Studi di Verona
  • Giulia Bison - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Lianka Camerlengo - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Mariama Bonturi - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Marianna Scapini - Università di Verona
  • Teresa Peretti - Università di Genova
  • Vanessa Centola - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Antonio De Siena - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università di Verona
  • Chiara Marchetti - Università di Roma
  • Federica Candelato - Università di Verona
  • Fiammetta Soriano - Università di Verona
  • Lara Pozzan - Università di Verona
  • Studenti, dottorandi, specializzandi delle Università di Anversa, Bari, Bologna, Genova, Roma, Verona

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Università degli Studi di Verona

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