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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)

  • The excavation looked at two areas of the necropolis: one corresponding with the first intervention in 2008 (so-called Pratino I), the other that of the 2009-2010 campaigns (so-called Pratino II). All funerary structures were cut into the tufa bedrock.

    In the area of Pratino I, four presumed structures were investigated in order to complete this sector of the excavation. Two (nos. 16 and 19) turned out to be depressions in the tufaceous ground, which at the moment have not revealed any tombs. The other two (nos. 17 and 18) were revealed to be a grave and a lateral loculus, both heavily disturbed.

    In area Pratino II, a zone delimited to the north and south by tombs 20-21 and 22-23 was excavated in order to check whether the necropolis continued on this side. Sixteen tombs were investigated: five (nos. 26, 27, 28, 32) were underground chambers preceded by a dromos, all (except n. 27) with deposition benches, some divided into loculi; eight were graves (nos. 24, 30, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39, 40); two with lateral loculus (nos. 29, 36), and one was unfinished (n. 34).

    Most of the tombs had been disturbed and there were only a few grave goods and a number of stone cippi were recovered. However, several contained intact tomb groups: tomb 24 (an askos and two small plain ware jars) and tomb 26 of which the secondary depositions of the internal passage were missed by the robbers. They contained the skeletal remains and pottery vessels (a jar, two small jars and a plain ware bowl, a black gloss oinochoe for the earlier of the burials; a single handled vase with barbotine decoration, an internal red slip bowl, a fragmentary plain ware jar for the later burial). The internal passage of tomb 28 was also untouched and contained a black gloss patera and a reddish impasto jar.

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

Director

Team

  • Alessandra Spina
  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES
  • 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

Funding Body

  • Comune di Tuscania

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