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Excavation

  • Timpone della Motta
  • Sibaritide
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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 2009 the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) conducted archaeological excavations in the sanctuary on the Timpone della Motta in Francavilla Marittima as well as in a nearby supposed Kerameikos area (nominated Area Rovitti). At the Macchiabate necropolis excavations were conducted in collaboration with the Archäologisches Seminar of the University of Basel. The excavations are part of a three-year field program aimed at investigating new contextual aspects of the 8th and 6th century BC periods in the area of the Timpone della Motta and the Macchiabate.

      Area Timpone della Motta

      Further excavations were carried out in the area of the sacred structure from the 6th century BC discovered in 2008 (Sector MS3). To the north the limits of the structure were identified while excavations to the east and west revealed the continuation of the building. A number of pinakes decorated with processions and architectural terracottas were found in contexts immediately on top of the structure. A test excavation to the south clarified that the building had been constructed on a leveling layer of a thickness between 40 and 50 centimeters. Several accumulations of votive material containing broken and complete objects as well as animal bones were excavated within the layer. The accumulations are possibly related to foundation rites performed during the erection of the building. In sector SM in the southwestern part of the sanctuary the excavation of a terrace wall datable to the middle of the 7th century BC was completed. Extensive deposits datable to the last decades of the 8th century BC were excavated underneath the wall. In sector GPC to the south of temple III the continued excavations revealed parts of a curving stone structure which burnished traces and covered by a thin layer of ash . A large amount of semi-melted bronze fragments was attested in the area suggesting that metalworking took place in the GPC area.
      Further excavations are pending for the MS3 and GPC areas for the year 2010.

    • Jan Kindberg Jacobsen - GIA, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, The Netherlands 

    Director

    • Peter Attema - Groningen Institute of Archaeology

    Team

    • Donatella Novellis - Università degli Studi del Salento
    • Nicoletta Perrone - Università degli Studi di Lecce
    • Helle Thusing - Università di Copenhagen
    • Mariavittoria Gabriele - Università degli Studi della Calabria
    • Signe Bruun Kristensen - Aarhus University
    • Annamaria De Francesco - Università degli Stdi della Calabria, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
    • Camelo Colelli - Università degli Studi della Calabria
    • Sine Saxkjær - Aarhus University
    • Søren Handberg - Aarhus University
    • Gloria Paola Mittica - Università degli Studi di Lecce
    • Maria D`Andrea - Università degli Studi della Calabria
    • Amedeo Brusco - Università degli Studi di Firenze
    • Eugenio Donato - Nonsolomuri S.r.l.

    Research Body

    • Groningen Institute of Archaeology, The Netherlands

    Funding Body

    • Carlsberg Foundation

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