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Excavation

  • Locri Epizefiri
  • Casino Macrì
  • Locri Epizefiri
  • Italy
  • Calabria
  • Province of Reggio Calabria
  • Portigliola

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Credits

  • 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 excavation continued in the area east of the Casino Macrì, with the extension of the zones investigated in 2010. In particular, structures and occupation levels were reached relating to the first phases of the settlement, datable to the 7th century B.C. The structures were destroyed by a major flood, probably coming from the Milligri gorge.

    The 2011 excavations were able better to define the characteristics of the man-made channel created during the 6th century B.C. for water regimentation: originally about 25 m wide it was narrowed to less than 7 m in the 4th century B.C.

    On the north bank of the channel a new sacred area was identified, with rooms arranged around a courtyard open towards the channel. The mid 4th-3rd century B.C. phase was partially investigated. The ritual activity was attested by furnishings (terracotta and marble louteria) and numerous votive offerings (pottery, astragalus, shells, statuettes).
    Identification of the water cult was supported by the find of a bull protome and a fragmentary model of a grotto, ascribable to the local production of grottoes-nymphaea known from the extra-urban sanctuary of Grotta Caruso.

    At less than thirty metres from the sanctuary, a perfectly-preserved brick-built well was excavated. The fill contained a substantial amount of pottery and fragments of Hellenistic coroplastics.
    Exploration of the Roman phases continued with the excavation of the structures dating to the 2nd century A.D., perhaps relating to public baths. The monumental phase dates to the 4th-5th century A.D., from which a building was explored for a length of over 22 m (at present) .
    The final occupation phase, in the late antique period, saw the creation of small, cell-like rooms, associated with burials in amphora placed at a few metres from the rooms themselves.

Director

  • Diego Elia - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Storici

Team

  • Carla Scilabra
  • Marco Serino
  • Barbara Carè
  • Valeria Meirano - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Storici

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche Archeologiche e Storico- Territoriali

Funding Body

  • Associazione culturale Kairós. Centro studi archeologici
  • Università degli Studi di Torino

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