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Excavation

  • Chiesa di Santa Lucia
  • Cagliari
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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • South Sardinia
  • Mandas

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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)

  • This season, investigations in the area of the presbytery and third chapel on the right continued and excavations began inside the area of the vestry.

    As in preceding campaigns, excavation in the area between the steps leading into the presbytery, the remains of the slate paving, the altar base and the remains of the terracotta paving abutting the vestry wall uncovered numerous burials. These were arranged on at least two overlying levels, and date to the 16th-17th centuries.

    The material inside the well in the right chapel was removed down to a level of 212 cm below present floor level. It is very probable that the well is much deeper and that its fill has great archaeological potential as it consists of a series of “sealed” contexts, unlike the later phases of the church.

    In the vestry area, the gradual removal of the layers, some of which filled ancient trenches, revealed the presence of a substantial wall ca. 60 cm wide, that ran longitudinally across most of the interior space, creating a right angle in the north-western sector. At the end of the excavation it was visible for 560 cm but its height is yet to be determined. It defined a space, which appeared to have been buried at the time the 16th century church was built. Lastly, three floor levels were exposed, whose stratigraphic and chronological relationships with the wall require clarification, although they appear to post-date the latter’s construction. The materials from these contexts have a narrow chronology, dating to the 4th-6th century, and includes numerous fragments of North African amphora, ARS D and burnished ware stick-burnished wares.

  • Stefania Dore 

Director

  • Rossana Martorelli - Università degli Studi di Cagliari – Cattedra di Archeologia Cristiana e Medievale

Team

  • Daniela Musio- Università di Cagliari
  • Lucia Mura- Università di Cagliari
  • Marco Muresu- Università di Cagliari
  • Sivia Marini- Università di Cagliari
  • M. Cadinu - Università degli Studi di Cagliari – Facoltà di Architettura

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Funding Body

  • Fondazione del Banco di Sardegna

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