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Excavation

  • Macchia della Riserva
  • Pratino
  • Tuscana
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Tuscania

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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)

  • Excavations continued in the zone between the areas of the so-called Pratino I and II on four funerary structures (nos. 37, 41, 42, 43) with underground chambers and dromos, cut into the tufa, with internal passages separating the deposition benches that were divided into loculi.

    Tomb 37 presented a chamber whose disturbed surface layers produced a stone column cippus , plain ware and black gloss vases. Some parts of the tomb were still intact with elements of the tomb group in primary deposition: a bronze mirror with incised decoration on the left hand bench and a group of black gloss vases (small two handled vessels and kantheros) and three small plain ware jars at the rear of the passage. Two loculi were situated in the shoulders of the dromos, both found intact. The one on the left contained a bronze coin, a red gloss small two handled jar, three small plain ware jars, a black gloss balsamarium with painted bands, a bowl, and two black gloss miniature olpai.

    Tomb 41 had two chambers, both disturbed. The first, on the same axis as the dromos, was not investigated due to the risk of collapse; fragments of plain and painted pottery were found close to the entrance. The second chamber, at a right angle to the dromos, contained a bronze lamina, parts of pottery balsamaria and human bones.

    Tomb 42 was formed by a large chamber. To date only the disturbed surface levels have been investigated, which produced numerous fragments of black gloss, plain and painted pottery, two coins and a bronze mirror fragment, iron strigil fragments and human bone.

    In tomb 43 the chamber ceiling had collapsed. Elements of the tomb group were only found in situ in the first loculus on the left (five small plain ware jars), while the rest of the pottery, stone (two column cippi) and metal (a bronze coin) finds were in secondary deposition. The dromos was still intact. The loculus in the left shoulder was still intact and contained two black gloss small cups and a krateriskos , a small plain ware jar, an iron strigil and human bone.

  • Stefano Giuntoli - LdM (Istituto d'Arte e Cultura "Lorenzo de' Medici") 

Director

Team

  • Alessandra Spina
  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES
  • Sara Costantini - SBAEM
  • Silvia Nencetti - CAMNES

Research Body

  • CAMNES - Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’Medici” Firenze
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale

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