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Excavation

  • Grumentum, Foro
  • Grumentum
  • Grumentum
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Potenza
  • Grumento Nova

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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 University of Verona’s excavations in the forum of Grumentum continued in August 2012. Investigations to the east of the Caesarium showed that in late antiquity almost the entire area was used for metal working activities. The evidence comprised a series of hearths starting in a central zone, and also overlying earlier hearths, associated with slag and other waste materials from casting/smelting (in particular, a nozzle from a bellows), together with materials mainly dating to the 1st century A.D. An L-shaped pillar was uncovered, similar to one excavated in previous years, which delimited a vast open area to the west, perhaps a road. A late antique wall (c. 6th century A.D.) seemed to delimit a room occupying about two thirds of the available space.

    The excavations behind the round temple, east of the Capitolium, provided better dating for the floor in phase with the temple, which seemed to date to the Tiberian period, while the earlier floor level seemed to belong to the Augustan period. In the area north of the temple, towards the Capitolium, there was a low wall supporting two columns, of which the base and a wall at right angles to the latter survive. This wall abutted the curtain wall of the sacred enclosure. The latter ran on an east-west alignment, at a right angle to the forum, along the same line as what was to become the wall of the Capitolium. When this was built, towards the mid 1st century A.D., these walls were partially demolished.

    A trench dug in the square revealed that an anomaly picked up by the gradiometer was the fill of a ditch cut into the terrain, thus establishing that the square began to function as a true forum only from the late Augustan period or, better, from the Tiberian period onwards. New surveys undertaken at about fifty metres west of the “Republican baths” revealed a curved structure, which may be a large (c. 20 m) exedra, or one half of a small arena.

  • Attilio Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Verona 

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Team

  • Carlotta Righetti - Università di Verona
  • Roby Stuani - Università di Barcellona
  • Silvia Braito - Università di Verona
  • Antonio De Siena - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Salvatore Pagliuca - Museo archeologico nazionale di Grumento Nova
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università di Verona
  • Chiara Marchetti - Università di Roma
  • Fabio Saggioro - Università degli Studi di Verona
  • Fiammetta Soriano - Università di Verona
  • Ine Jacobs - Università di Anversa
  • Lara Pozzan - Università di Verona
  • Simone Melato - Università di Verona
  • Studenti, dottorandi, specializzandi delle Università di Anversa, Bruxelles, Bologna, Genova, Roma, Verona

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Università degli Studi di Verona

Funding Body

  • Comune di Grumento Nova

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