Summary (English)
Excavations took place in several parts of the necropolis inside the archaeological area and a sector of the town at about 100 m from the latter, along the farm road to Pian delle Rusciare.
Tombs 57 and 60, hypogean chamber tombs, with benches and horizontal loculi, and tomb 59 with a lateral loculus, were excavated. The chamber of a very large tomb (58) was identified below tomb 22 (previously excavated), but then backfilled for safety reasons. The dromos of tomb 23 was excavated; it was of notable size and presented what was probably a bench, created in one of the parapets on the chamber’s front. Tomb 57 had largely been disturbed and the shattered grave goods included the bronze hinge of a mobile handle for a basin and part of a small jar decorated with painted bands. Tomb 60 had been disturbed in antiquity but numerous ceramic vessels were recovered, including two miniature terracotta theatrical or Dionysiac masks, an askos in the form of a leather bottle made of well-levigated pottery, a black glaze oinochoe, and bronze fragments from a mirror and its handle. In tomb 59, the only find was a bronze mirror with separate handle, terminating at the top in a triple palm leaf and at the bottom in a protome in the form of a deer. Dry-stone foundation walls were uncovered in the residential area relating to at least two building complexes.
- Stefano Giuntoli - CAMNES (Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies) 
Director
Team
- Domenica Palmieri - CAMNES
- Riccardo Catone - CAMNES
- Silvia Nencetti - CAMNES
- Serena Ermini
Research Body
- Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (CAMNES)
- Istituto Italiano Internazionale “Lorenzo de’ Medici”
Funding Body
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