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Excavation

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

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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)

  • Excavations took place in several places in the necropolis within the archaeological area. Three tombs cut into the tufa bedrock were investigated. Tomb 61 comprised a small underground chamber with collapsed vault, a dromos with level floor and a sloped entrance, cut on the left side for the creation of a loculus (II). The chamber, which had been disturbed, was still closed by a stone slab. The chamber housed two lateral benches divided by a wide walkway, in which two small painted pottery plates were found. The dromos was intact, and here about twenty small black glaze plates were recovered, probably relating to a funerary ritual. A vertical loculus had been created in each wall of the dromos, still sealed by flanking tiles. The right-hand loculus (I) seemed to house an infant burial and contained a tomb group made up of eight vessels: black glaze (anforetta, miniature olpe, chalice, patera), well-levigated ware (_unguentarium_), and coarse ware (small jars). The one on the left (II) contained an iron strigil, a black glaze oinochoe and two small jars in plain coarse ware. Tomb 62 was a large underground chamber tomb, with collapsed vault, which had not been disturbed. It comprised a walkway and two lateral benches, each divided into eight horizontal, parallel loculi, bordered by cordons. In the left bench, a shelf housed a collared cinerary urn, while in the right-hand one there was an amphora-shaped cinerary urn. The tomb groups were made up of numerous artefacts (245), often found in different levels of the chamber’s fill, due to flooding in antiquity and the collapse of various structures. The finds include bronze (two olpai, a cooking pan, two small basins, two coins and an armlet) and iron (strigils?) artefacts, a mould-made ridged glass cup and black glaze pottery, generally open forms (_kylikes_, paterae, small plates) and occasionally closed forms (_olpai_, oinochoe). There were also vessels in plain deputìrated and coarse wares (_lagynoi_, small jars_, beakers, unguentaria, amphora), and numerous lamps. The dromos was not excavated due to the presence of an oak tree. Tomb 63, with lateral loculus and walkway had been disturbed and the only find was a small plain coarse ware jar.

  • Stefano Giuntoli-CAMNES 

Director

  • Stefano Giuntoli-CAMNES

Team

  • Domenica Palmieri-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

  • CAMNES
  • Istituto Internazionale Italiano “Lorenzo de’ Medici”

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