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Excavation

  • Ferento
  • Viterbo
  • Ferentium
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Viterbo

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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)

  • In trench III work continued in the western extension of the excavation, documenting the structures of the medieval house B and the late antique levels of the vicus which crosses the decumanus maximus running north-south. Excavations in the area of the Roman portico were almost completed, with the emptying of the lime-kiln identified in 2008. On the basis of the pottery this structure has been dated to circa the 5th-7th century A.D. Excavation also continued of the open area south of the house ( hortus, viridarium or better open courtyard), which clarified the occupation phases preceding the construction of the domus.

    In Trench IV excavations continued in the eastern sector. In the southern sector the layers of rubble relating to the ruin of the Roman walls and the in situ collapse of the roof made of tile and imbrices belonging to the structure south of the late medieval building constructed in large stone blocks. Several layers were also removed from inside room 2, the medieval structure with a central pillar, together with a wall which caused a narrowing of the building on its west side.

    In Trench V, North Room, the excavations revealed a series of housings for timber structures, forming internal divisions, including spaces destined for hearths. A series of postholes and other traces of a system of wooden dividing walls were also found outside of the building, attesting yet another occupation phase.

  • Vania Di Stefano - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico 
  • Carlo Pavolini - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico 
  • Elisabetta De Minicis - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico 

Director

Team

  • Alessandra Spina
  • Annamaria Villari
  • Daniela Peloso - CNR-ITABC
  • Donatella De Bernardis
  • Flora Scaia
  • Giuseppe Romagnoli
  • Marianna Rinaldi
  • Tamara Patilli
  • Irene Berlingò (1999-2002) - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale
  • Valeria D’Atri - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale
  • Gabriella Maetzke (1999-2003) - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico

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