Fasti Online Home | Switch To Fasti Archaeological Conservation | Survey
logo

Excavation

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

Tools

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).

  • AIAC_logo logo

Summary (English)

  • During this campaign work concentrated on the forum area. A round building (diam. c.9m) was uncovered in proximity to the forum and capitolium. Standing on a podium with a flight of four steps and built in opus reticulatum this was probably a temple. The area was also occupied during the medieval and modern periods as attested by pottery, coins, the remains of a hearth and a dry-stone wall.

    On the south-eastern side of the Caesarium investigation continued of the foundry, discovered in the previous campaign. The foundry was above a layer dating to the end of the 3rd century and below a late antique wall, probably dating just after the end of the 4th century. The revival of activity in this area during the course of the 4th century and the presence of the foundry attest a radical change of life style in the forum area.

    Up against the Ceasarium, on its south-eastern side, at the end of the porticus, three phases of the latter’s paving were revealed: a late antique one, partially covered with tile and other reused architectural material, the bedding for a pavement bonded to the foundations of the stylobate of the porticus and an earlier bedding abutting the back wall of the forum and perhaps of the same phase.

    Excavation of the spaces made in the forward sub-structures of the capitolium revealed a large and deep lime-kiln lined with stone. It is most likely that the lime-kiln’s activity lead to the destruction of statues, inscriptions and architectural elements from the city centre.
    Trenches dug on the north-western side of the Caesarium brought to light a very compact beaten earth floor which probably constituted the earliest paving of the forum, datable to the late Hellenistic period, just before the transfer of the new colonists, or during the colony’s first phase.

Director

  • Attilio Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Verona

Team

  • Ermanno Finzi - Dipartimento di Geofisica dell’Università di Padova
  • Francesco Guerra - Università IUAV di Venezia
  • Antonio Capano - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Luigi Sperti - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università di Verona
  • Carmelo Malacrino
  • Federica Candelato - Università di Verona
  • Massimo Saracino
  • Ugo Fusco - Università di Pisa
  • Studenti - Università di Bologna, Genova, Venezia, Verona

Research Body

  • CIRCE – Univ. IUAV Venezia
  • Cevesco, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Funding Body

  • Centro Veneto Studi e Ricerche sulle Civiltà Classiche
  • Comune di Grumento Nova
  • ESU di Verona
  • Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
  • Università degli Studi di Verona

Images

  • No files have been added yet