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Excavation

  • Macchia della Riserva
  • Pian delle Rusciare
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Tuscania

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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)

  • Work was undertaken in three separate areas of the site. The investigation of the area uphill from tomb 5 was
    completed with the excavation of a chamber tomb with dromos and bench (no. 9) and two graves (nos. 10, 11), all cut into the tufa and almost completely robbed. The vault of tomb 9 had collapsed but the boulders closing its entrance were still in place. A number of tile fragments that had covered the body were recovered from tomb 11.

    Also at Pian della Rusciare, by the edge of the Fosso Caprino, a drainage cuniculus was uncovered (Structure A), identified by the collapse of a section of its vault. Its outlet in the side of the Fosso Caprino was discovered by following its line on the surface. For safety reasons it was not possible to excavate inside the cuniculus.

    Excavations began in the Pratino area, where the activity of tomb robbers was clearly visible in the woods. Four chamber tombs were excavated (nos. 12, 13, 14, 15), all rock-cut and with dromos. The chamber of tomb 12 was sub-oval in plan, with an internal passage between two deposition benches. A miniature cup, and the mouth and neck of a fusiform black gloss balsamarium were found in secondary deposition. Tombs 13 and 14, situated on either side of tomb 12, housed single burials, with a passage flanked by the deposition bench. The upper part of the tombs were damaged by the illegal excavations but the lower levels of the passages were intact and produced a black gloss beaker and a small coarse ware jar (tomb 13), a black gloss bowl and a small coarse ware jar (tomb 14). Tomb 15 was a small irregular chamber with dromos that was only partially investigated due to the presence of a tree, from which tile fragments were recovered.

  • Stefano Giuntoli - LdM (Istituto d'Arte e Cultura "Lorenzo de' Medici") 

Director

Team

  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale

Funding Body

  • Comune di Tuscania
  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’Medici” Firenze

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