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Excavation

  • La Pieve
  • Collemancio
  • Urvinum Hortense
  • Italy
  • Umbria
  • Province of Perugia
  • Cannara

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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 2014, the excavations again concentrated on the large bath complex where the Nilotic mosaic now housed in Cannara museum was found.
    Most of the exposed walls were faced with minute sandstone elements, sometimes alternating with travertine or tile inserts. The repetitive construction methods and serial design of the plan suggest the structures were all built at the same time. This would seem to exclude that they originally belonged to the baths. Indeed, the walls delimited a series of rooms that only seemed contiguous to the perimeter walls of the baths. They appear to be later in date and probably related to a residential structure.
    In the first decades of the 2nd century A.D., the careful planning and construction in this area of the baths must have redesigned the earlier layout of the neighbouring areas in order to permit maximum practicality and use of the complex, defining and channelling the access into the common spaces, but also selecting and englobing stretches of wall that seemed useful for the new building. All this must have led to tangible transformations in the role and use of the spaces, in particular those immediately adjacent to the construction site of the baths. This may be the reason why the 2014 excavations uncovered extensive rubble collapse used to fill all areas between the old and new walls, in order to guarantee effective static support and levelling, but also drainage through a generalised reuse of the earlier building materials.

    All the walls were razed to the same level. The ground around them appeared to be artificially flat, and continues to be subjected to invasive agricultural practices. The latter are probably the cause of the dense dumps of material found between 2013 and 2014, containing late and jumbled material culture from the surface layers.

    The 2014 campaign exposed the perimeter and internal walls of the bath complex and extensive areas of surfaces, in particular the mosaic floor of the so-called peristyle. The aim was to check the previous plans given that they were not uniform in their graphics or in the conventions used, and the topographic reference points were uncertain. The objective was to create a single, uniform georeferenced plan of the structures. Using the same methods and subsequent processing, the state of the wall facings was also documented. A specific photogrammetric and topographic survey was made in order to obtain a textured 3D model of the baths.
    In addition, this season a new stretch of the city wall was identified close to the baths complex. It was decided not to complete the consolidation and restoration of the walls and floors in the area of the domus excavated between 2003 and 2012 until the area has been roofed. For the same reasons it was decided not to intervene on the cistern structures linked to the baths.

  • Valeria Scocca- Università di Verona e di Venezia Ca’ Foscari/IUAV 
  • Maurizio Matteini Chiari- Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Lettere-Lingue, Letterature e Civiltà antiche e moderne, Cattedra di Topografia Antica  

Director

Team

  • Marisa Scarpignato - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria
  • Matteo Mincigrucci
  • Michela D’Alessandro

Research Body

  • Associazione Culturale “SAIPINAZ”
  • Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Lettere-Lingue, Letterature e Civiltà antiche e moderne, Cattedra di Topografia Antica

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cannara

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