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Excavation

  • Gabi
  • Tenuta di Castiglione e Pantano Borghese
  • Gabii
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Rome

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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)

  • This was the seventh campaign of the Gabii Project inside the archaeological park. The fieldwork took place in three sectors of the area under investigation, Area D, Area C, and Area F, corresponding with different stratigraphic contexts clearly delimited by walls and particular topographic elements.

    Area F, situated along the western edge of the excavation area, includes an entire insula of the city’s orthogonal grid. Here, the excavations were extended to the south-west in order to investigate the last small sector of the insula, which included the large building identified last season and so complete its excavation. The building stood on three levels, delimited to the east by a monumental wall in opus quadratum of tufa blocks and linked by a perfectly preserved flight of steps that also marked the division between the eastern and western parts of the monumental building. Its original phase can be dated to between the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. and it underwent several transformations during the imperial period, with a gradual and dramatic narrowing towards the south, that is, the zone facing onto the main road. This campaign concluded the excavation of the entire building.

    In Area D, situated along the southern excavation edge, the investigation continued of the stratigraphy relating to two huts dating to the Orientalizzing period. The 2015 campaign made a complete investigation of the remains of the hut settlement, which also included tombs and small structures in perishable materials situated near the huts themselves. This phase can certainly be attributed to a chronological horizon that runs from the last quarter of the 8th century to the second half of the 9th century. The excavations reached natural across the entire sector.

    Lastly, in 2015 excavations continued in Area C, situated east of Area D. Here, a small extension was opened to the south, in an attempt to complete the plan of the late Republican house already partially excavated in 2009-2011. This season’s excavations exposed the earliest remains of an atrium domus, datable to the 4th century B.C. The house did not appear to have undergone any major alterations in the layout of the rooms between the initial phase and the final one datable to the Augustan period, apart from the insertion of an atrium in the 2nd century B.C., in the typical style of the period. The rooms were arranged around an atrium with an entrance that was not on the same axis as the tablinium and with a single ala. A large room was investigated to the south of the atrium that probably functioned as a storeroom, perhaps linked to the tabernae that it is suggested were situated beyond the southern edge of the excavation area.

    The results of the 2015 campaign provided better definition of the earliest phases of the town of Gabii as well as of the transformations that took place there during the Republican and imperial periods. This new and important data will aid in the diachronic reconstruction of the history and life of this important site in ancient Latium.

  • Anna Gallone - Gabii Project 

Director

  • Nicola Terrenato - University of Michigan

Team

  • Arianna Zapelloni Pavia- University of Michiga
  • Giulia Peresso- Università di Roma Tre
  • Ivano Taranto
  • Francesca Alhaique
  • Carlo Monda
  • Diane Tincu
  • Kathrine Beydler- University of Michigan
  • Laura Motta - University of Michigan
  • Andrew Johnston - Harvard University
  • Laura Banducci- Carleton University
  • Marcello Mogetta- University of Missouri, Columbia
  • Alison Rittershaus (University of Michigan)
  • Antonio F. Ferrandes - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Christina Cha -Florida State University
  • Giordano Iacomelli - Sapienza-Università di Roma
  • Shannon Ness- University of Michigan
  • J. Marilyn Evans - University of California, Berkeley
  • J. Troy Samuels- University of Michigan
  • Jason Farr - University of Michigan
  • Carlo Baione
  • Emanuele Casagrande Cicci- Università di Roma La Sapienza
  • Matt Naglak- University of Michigan
  • Rachel S. Opitz - University of Arkansas CAST
  • Tyler Johnson- CAST, University of Arkansas

Research Body

  • The University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Funding Body

  • Fiat - Chrysler Foundation
  • Kelsey Museum of Archaeology- Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A
  • The National Endowment for Humanities
  • The University of Michigan- Provost’s office, Rackham Graduate School, The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Department of Classical Studies
  • the Loeb Classical Library Foundation
  • the National Geographic Society

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