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Excavation

  • Coppa Nevigata
  • Manfredonia
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  • Italy
  • Apulia
  • Provincia di Foggia
  • Manfredonia

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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)

  • Essentially three areas were investigated: 1) the north-eastern part of the Apenninic walls, with later Sub-Appenninic rebuilds (14th-12th century B.C.); 2) a part of the settlement dating to the Recent Sub-Appenninic (12th century B.C.), with clear traces of destruction and burning; 3) the area south-east of the gate into the settlement, dating to the transition phase between the Appenninic and Sub-Appenninic periods c. 1300 B.C.

    1) Work continued on exposing the line of the walls. The related fill of stones was only visible in a very narrow strip, partially obliterated by the Sub-Appenninic levels. The later elements uncovered on the slope were constituted by parts of curved structures (probably originally circular, c. 2 m in diameter but badly disturbed by erosion), bordered by medium-sized stones and interior surface made up of smaller cobblestones.
    The latest Sub-Appenninic levels immediately uphill from the fill of the Appenninic walls and line of circular structures were characterised by the presence of an alignment of medium-sized stones that was followed for almost 20 m. This alignment can probably be interpreted as an element bordering the area situated to the south-west of it. It was not substantial enough to have been a defensive structure. It could also have been the south-western edge of a track that partially followed the line of the earlier walls on the interior, however the opposite edge that could confirm this hypothesis was not preserved.

    2) The excavation of the Recent Sub-Appenninic settlement with traces of destruction and burning took place in several sectors. The principal characteristic was the widespread presence of baked clay in various points. This evidence suggests the existence of walls with a framework of vegetal material covered with clay. This technique was well documented in sector H3N where the base of one of these walls, c. 15 cm thick, was preserved. Traces of hearths were also present. Pottery fragments were found on the floor surface, including some large pieces of intact or reconstructable bowls, and grindstone fragments. There was a concentration of faunal remains in a small area, probably used for storage of a practical or symbolic nature.

    3) This area is situated south-east of the entrance into the settlement used from the Appenninic until at least the Sub-Appenninic period. Here the investigation of the Sub-Appenninic levels continued and in some sectors the Appenninc levels were reached. The removal was completed of an accumulation of material situated in the northernmost sector. Made up of soil mixed with crushed yellowish limestone it had been deposited in several phases. This accumulation formed a low rise sloping from east to west (that is in the direction of the road that crosses the entrance itself, whose surface had gradually risen in height through time) and from north to south. In both a late and intermediate phase of its formation, dry-stone bases of medium to large sized stones were constructed, relating to a structure of some size, built in two different periods in the same position.

  • Alberto Cazzella - Università degli Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell’Antichità, Sezione di Paletnologia 
  • Maurizio Moscoloni - Università di Roma “La Sapienza” 
  • Giulia Recchia - Università di Foggia 

Director

  • Alberto Cazzella- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Team

  • Cristiana Ruggini - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Cristina Lemorini - Università di Roma – La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Laboratorio di Analisi Tecnologica e Funzionale dei Manufatti Pre- e Protostorici.
  • Elisabetta Onnis - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Emanuela Cristiani - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Michela Danesi - Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
  • Valentina Copat- Università di Roma “La Sapienza"
  • Claudia Minniti
  • Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin - Università degli Studi di Lecce, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Maurizio Moscoloni- Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
  • Oronzo Simone - Università degli Studi di Bari
  • Paolo Bellintani - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Trentino
  • Cosimo d’Oronzo - Università di Lecce
  • Donatella Magri - Sapienza Università di Roma, Italiano di Paleontologia Umana
  • Girolamo Fiorentino - Università del Salento
  • Lucia Vagnetti - Istituto per gli Studi Egei e del Vicino Oriente del CNR
  • Marco Bettelli - Ricercatore, CNR, ICEVO, Roma
  • Massimo Caldara
  • Sara T. Levi - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
  • G. Calderoni - Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Lucio Calcagnile - Centro di Datazione e Diagnostica dell’Università di Lecce

Research Body

  • Istituto per gli Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico del CNR
  • Università del Salento
  • Università di Bari
  • Università di Foggia
  • Università di Modena
  • Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Funding Body

  • Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

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