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Excavation

  • Nora, quartiere nord-occidentale
  • Nora
  • Nora
  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • Province of Cagliari
  • Pula

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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)

  • Although this season was hampered by bad weather, work continued on the investigation begun in 2017 and this involved the enlargement of the excavation area in order to gain a better understanding of the diachronic evolution of the quarter.

    Therefore, in order to gain a better understanding of the space and artisan activity in the structure identified last year (_pistrinum_?), excavation continued in the nearby corridor of the so-called macellum (room D11), which led to the discovery of the probable south perimeter wall of the workshop, razed prior to the construction of the macellum-_Insula_ A. The layers of fill and levelling relating to the construction of the wall that is now visible were determinant, based on the finds, with a terminus post_ quem of the 3rd century A.D., therefore confirming the chronology known from the literary sources.

    This season’s campaign also completed the excavation of the fourth side of the room, plastered in white with red and blue bands, identified in 2011 to the rear of the Small Baths (Area PT/RG). The entrance to the room was identified; whose modest size and plain decoration suggest could have been a service room. In any case, the residential nature of this zone in which the baths stood was confirmed. The room seemed to continue in use for as long as the baths remained in use. In fact, when the baths went out of use the room became a dump for building rubble and rubbish. For safety reasons it was not possible to deepen the excavation here any further, therefore it was decided to extend the area to the north (Are PT/RA). Unfortunately, bad weather meant that only initial cleaning took place.

    The new area towards the north (Area C2), opened in 2017, was extended. In the area where several walls were present, one of which the north wall of the room identified in the previous campaign, two more walls on an east-west alignment were uncovered, which had collapsed and been partially robbed. New walls were built on top of them, indicating substantial reorganisation. The new layout of the area involved the blocking with reused material of the door into the room mentioned above, which opened to the east. At the same time, a rough floor of beaten earth was created, reinforced with small stones and tile fragments laid flat and the room was divided by a wattle and daub partition wall. Subsequently, the area probably went out of use and the structures gradually degraded, and in some cases collapsed. The relative chronology appears to be clear, but only the study of the finds will provide an absolute chronology. In fact, these results represent only a part of a wider research project and will have to be interpreted by taking into account not only the stratigraphy of the excavated areas but also the information provided by the finds study.

  • Bianca Maria Giannattasio - Università degli Studi di Genova  

Director

  • Bianca Maria Giannattasio - Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Gianfranca Salis - Soprintendenza dei beni archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano
  • Maura Picciau- Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e le province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna

Team

  • Bianca Maria Giannattasio - Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Silvia Pallecchi - Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Anna Parodi - Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Federico Lambiti - Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Elena Santoro- Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Irene Cimoli- Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Michele Grippo- Università degli Studi di Genova

Research Body

  • Research Body: Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento Antichità, Filosofia, Storia (D.A.FI.ST.)

Funding Body

  • Università degli Studi di Genova

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