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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)

  • Three tombs cut into the tufaceous bedrock were excavated in the areas denominated Pratino I and II.

    Tomb 42 was an underground chamber with a long dromos that had been disturbed. The ceiling of the sub-quadrangular chamber sloped north to south. The chamber presented two large benches with uneven surfaces. A group of finds, comprising the bowl of a bronze thymiaterion and thirteen black gloss and plain ware vases, was recovered from the space between the two benches, from which they had probably fallen.

    Tomb 44 had two underground chambers and was entered via a short, stepped dromos. A small individual chamber (B) opened at the end of the dromos, found still intact and closed by two overlapping tiles. It housed a tomb group made up of four plain ware and black gloss vases. The main chamber (A), whose ceiling had collapsed, was sub-rectangular in plan and housed twenty-six depositions. The first part of the walkway inside the chamber was on the same axis as the dromos, it then continued to the rear in an S-shaped curve, flanked by benches with horizontal and vertical loculi with niches above them. There were three other niches in the entrance wall, while other loculi had been created in the floor of the walkway itself. Despite being disturbed, the chamber contained numerous elements from the tomb group, pottery (black gloss, painted black gloss and plain ware), metal artefacts (bronze and iron) and glass as well as lamps and tiles.

    Tomb 45 was an intact vertical loculus, closed by two tiles placed side by side. On the front shelf, there was a stone column cippus in its original position. The deposition was that of a female aged about 30-35 years old, with most of the grave goods placed by her feet: five plain ware and red gloss vases and seven blown glass balsamaria.

  • Stefano Giuntoli - CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies) 

Director

Team

  • Alessandra Spina
  • Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES
  • Silvia Nencetti - CAMNES
  • Fabio Lorenzi- CAMNES

Research Body

  • Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (CAMNES)
  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’ Medici”

Funding Body

  • CAMNES
  • Istituto d’Arte e Cultura “Lorenzo de’ Medici”

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