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Excavation

  • Conca d’Oro, Via Vergini
  • Fabbrica
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Alife

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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)

  • Excavation continued of the necropolis in use in from the 3rd-2nd century B.C. and in the 1st century A.D.

    In the zone above the present via Vergini a deliberately broken three legged cooking pan with traces of burning was found in a tomb. This relates to the celebration on site of a silicernium, as the find of numerous balsamarii relates to the late Hellenistic tradition of sprinkling the deceased and pyre with perfumed essences.

    The simplicity of the grave goods reflects the sumptuary restrictions typical of the mid to late Republican period throughout the middle Italic area. In the light of this, the presence in tomb 1, zone B of an iron skewer in association with black glaze ware and a kitchen amphora of a form to date unknown in Campania bearing stamps that are among the earliest amphora stamps known to date (beginning of the 2nd century B.C.) was of great interest. A small bronze disc with a hole through it, found in one of the depositions, may be interpreted as a weight that had been preserved for the intrinsic value of the metal. Some of the burials were of females, as attested by the presence of a hair pin fragment and, perhaps, by a silver ring found in the urn of one of the burials.

  • Valeria Sampaolo - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Francesco Sirano - Soprintendenza per i beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Team

  • Luigi Lombardi - Soc. Coop. Opus

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

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