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Excavation

  • Egnazia
  • Fasano
  • Egnatia
  • Italy
  • Apulia
  • Province of Brindisi
  • Fasano

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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 excavation was undertaken as part of the ‘Progetto Egnazia: dallo scavo alla valorizzazione’, begun in 2001 by the Department of ‘Scienze dell’Antichità’ at Bari University. The investigation of three crucial sectors of the Adriatic town highlighted the long occupation from the prehistoric to early medieval period and the town’s important role as a bridgehead between East and West.

    In the western area of the town a porticoed square was examined, built in the Hellenistic period and monumentalised under Trajan. A residential quarter south of the urban stretch of the via Traiana was also investigated. Workshops for brick production and the dying of cloth were built in the central sector of the town at the beginning of the 1st century B.C., overlying the Messapian necropolis.

    The late antique reorganisation, in the area of the square which was obliterated by an expanse of beaten earth, saw the creation of a commercial area with spaces for the storage and distribution of dry foodstuffs. To the south of the via Traiana a workshop area was set up with two kilns for the production of cooking ware and painted ware pottery. The kilns were still active at the end of the 6th century A.D. In the mid 4th century A.D. the late Republican productive structures were obliterated by the Episcopal basilica. At this time the baths excavated in the eastern part of the town were still in use, they were finally abandoned at the beginning of the 7th century A.D. The same settlement pattern was registered for the late antique period on the so-called acropolis, where research begun in the area of the Italic temple demonstrated the creation of warehouse spaces which remained in use at least until the 7th century A.D.

  • Maria Raffaella Cassano - Università degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia 

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Team

  • Alessandro Crispino - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Anna Mangiatordi - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Gianluca Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Marco Campese - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Maria Domenica De Filippis - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Michele Cuccovillo - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • Rosa Conte - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
  • C. Silvio Fioriello - Università degli Studi di Bari – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

Funding Body

  • A.Di.Su.
  • Comune di Fasano

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