Index for 2024
- 595 - Gloria Olcese - Angelo Pellegrino - Xabier Gonzalez Muro - Andrea Razza. 2024. Le nuove campagne di scavo 2023-2024 della villa A di Dragoncello (Acilia, Roma): alcuni dati preliminari sul complesso e sulle sue fasi di vita . This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations carried out in the area of Dragoncello (Acilia, Roma), between the Tiber and via Ostiense, during the 2023 and 2024 campaigns, within a larger ongoing project which aims to reconstruct the settlement dynamics and agricultural exploitation of the area between the Republican and Imperial periods. The recent excavation campaigns have advanced our understanding of the villa's plan, revealing previously unknown sectors. These discoveries facilitate a hypothetical reconstruction of the complex's organization, elucidating the spatial division between residential and productive areas. Moreover, ongoing stratigraphic while the study of the finds has enabled the identification of a potential prehistoric occupation of the site, as well as the delineation of successive phases of construction, renovation and abandonment of the Villa A, from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 594 - Mattia Bischeri - Ada Salvi - Lorenzo Lambiase. 2024. Tra vecchi rinvenimenti, indagini geofisiche e archeologia preventiva. Nuovi dati dal centro storico di Chiusi (SI). This paper presents the preliminary results of the first geophysical campaign carried out in 2023 at Chiusi (central Italy, Siena), one of the most important Etruscan city-states of the Northern internal Etruria. The research was conducted in collaboration between the Municipality of Chiusi, the Soprintendenza ABAP-SI and Radaring company. The modern urban area of Chiusi conserves a large stratigraphical palimpsest, with a continuity of occupation from the Bronze age toward Etruscan, Roman and Middle age period. This geophysical campaign aimed to explore some key-site of the historical city-center, in order to better understand the urban layout of the ancient city to elaborate a new archaeological map. The geophysical anomalies identified have been interpreted integrating archaeological and archival data and, in few cases, tested by targeted archaeological excavations. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 593 - Fabio Forte – Maria Tommasa Granese – Antonio Mesisca. 2024. Tre sepolture alla cappuccina dal territorio di S. Marzano sul Sarno (SA). The preliminary results of the investigation presented here aims to recover and interpret data obtained from excavation operations to enhance the existing knowledge framework documented in the bibliography. During archaeological surveillance activities carried out by Archeoservizi for the creation of a new electricity infrastructure by E_Distribuzione, on Via Ugo Foscolo in San Marzano sul Sarno (SA), three burials, referred to as “a cappuccina”, were found (indicated in the paper as: T1-T2-T3). The research was conducted from January 26, 2022, to February 4, 2022, under the supervision of the Soprintendenza Archeologica for the provinces of Salerno and Avellino, using a stratigraphic method. Initial documentation was developed in the field and later integrated during the post-excavation phase with data acquired from the comparative analysis of the clay materials found. The investigation area is located southwest of the current municipal cemetery: Latitude 40.782767, Longitude 14.583479. The first part of the T1 burial was found 120 cm below the current ground level. Other tombs of the same type may exists, considering the positions of burials T1, T2, and T3. These tombs had a double-pitched roof under which the deceased was placed directly on the ground or on a brick or tile floor. The construction methodology varied for the three tombs, with each burial containing an inhumation. The chronology was determined by the artifacts found inside and the dating of the lapilli found in situ. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 592 - Silvia Marini. 2024. La discarica della schola di S. Gaetano di Vada: analisi dei materiali ceramici. This study presents the material from the midden outside the north wall of the schola at the Roman site of S. Gaeta-no di Vada, near Rosignano. The midden contains pottery and glass vessels used by the people in the building, from the Augustan period to late Antiquity, when it had probably become a dwelling. Significant changes in the type of vessels used can be observed in this material. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 591 - Marco Milanese - Veronica Venco - Stefano Pedersoli – Giovanni Azzalin - Alessandra Urgu. 2024. Indagini archeologiche non invasive nei siti di Monte Sant’Antonio e Sant’Ortolu (Siligo): campagna di ricerca 2023. Incastellamento e processi insediativi di lunga durata nella Sardegna medievale. This paper presents the results of the non-invasive archaeological investigations conducted within the municipality of Siligo (SS, Sardinia) at the sites of Monte Sant'Antonio and Sant'Ortolu. The initial site investigations facilitated quantifying structures associated with the late Medieval castle of Capúla and the topographical distribution on the plateau. Conversely, the subsequent site revealed evidence of human activity spanning from the Bronze Age to the sub-contemporary era, highlighting the significance of this structural complex (nuraghe-early medieval church) as pivotal within the rural landscape of the historic Logudoro region. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 590 - Alessandra Benini – Maria Luisa Tardugno. 2024. Ischia in età romana. Strutture portuali e residenziali nel-la baia di Cartaromana. The fame of Ischia is linked to its role as the first Greek colony in the west and to the wealth of materials found during the excavations of the necropolis of San Montano. From the third century B.C. the island entered the sphere of Roman influ-ence, although it was not involved in the great building expansion that characterized the coasts of Campania due to the volcanic nature of the island and the frequent earthquakes that rocked the island between the end of the republic and the first centuries of the imperial age. In 2010 systematic research began in the Bay of Cartaromana that are documenting a Roman presence on the island with the identification of a port structure and the remains of a maritime villa, submerged between 3 and 6 meters underwater. Of particular interest is the presence in situ and the excellent state of preservation of the wooden formwork used for the construction of the harbor dock. The pottery found, both past chance finds and dur-ing the current excavations, indicates a long frequentation of the bay of Cartaromana, which from the third century B.C. continues almost uninterrupted until the Middle Ages and Renaissance, culminating with the construction of the Arago-nese Castle, which still dominates the inlet. Further underwater reconnaissance conducted along other stretches of the coastal strip of the island are highlighting the presence of other sites attributable to the Roman period. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 589 - Alessandro Sebastiani - Alessandro Carabia - Cleo Barbafiera. 2024. The archaeological excavations at Castellaraccio di Monteverdi (Civitella Paganico – GR). Report of the 2021-2023 seasons. Negli ultimi tre anni gli scavi archeologici presso il Castellaraccio di Monteverdi hanno restituito nuovi dati sulla cronologia del sito, permettendo di formulare una periodizzazione preliminare delle sue fasi di uso. Questo articolo riassume i risultati della ricerca e li contestualizza nel più ampio territorio dell’Ardenghesca, ovvero il feudo medievale corrispondente al moderno comune di Civitella Paganico (Grosseto). PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 588 - Rebecca A. Salem - Kate Minniti. 2024. A New Investigation of the Peribolos Wall of the Main Urban Sanctuary at Selinunte. A partire dal 2006 l’Institute of Fine Arts–NYU, in collaborazione con l’Università di Milano e con le autorità archeologiche locali ha condotto scavi nel principale santuario urbano di Selinunte, concentrandosi in particolare sul settore sud. Durante la campagna 2023 il gruppo di ricerca ha ampliato l’indagine fino a comprendere una parte del muro del peribolo sud del tempio R. Questo antico muro, costruito con il calcare locale, definisce l’area del santuario rispetto all’area urbana circostante. Il suo allineamento con l’urbanistica di Selinunte suggerisce che il muro faceva parte della prima monumentalizzazione della città, anche se ricerche precedenti non avevano potuto stabilire in modo certo la data iniziale della sua costruzione. Il nostro obiettivo era di definire le fasi di costruzione del muro e I suoi rapporti con l’architettura complessiva del santuario. In un saggio, SAS V, il team ha rinvenuto significativi elementi architettonici, che comprendono tagli rettangolari che possono essere serviti come soglie e piccoli muri trasversali, ma anche reperti che datano la costruzione del muro, in particolare ceramica databile tra 590 e 560 a.C. Lo scavo e lo studio sull’architettura hanno inoltre confermato che i muri trasversali erano parte della costruzione del muro del peribolo fin dall’inizio. Dato che questi muri non sembrano definire spazi chiusi né servire come supporto per una stoà, è necessario proseguire l’indagine per chiarire la loro funzione. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 587 - Francesco M. Cifarelli - Stephen Kay - Alberta Martellone - Cesare Felici - Veronica Ferrari - Walter Fusari - Roberto Montagnetti - Elena Pomar - Beatrice Pozzi. 2024. Furfo (Barisciano, AQ). Risultati della prima campagna di indagini non invasive del Furfo Project. In September 2023 the first season of work was conducted by the Furfo Project, a new interdisciplinary study organised through a 3-year research agreement between the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di L’Aquila e Teramo, the University of Aquila – Department of Human Sciences, the British School at Rome and the Comune di Barisciano. The aim of the research programme is the investigation of the vicus of Furfo, an important archaeological site in the territory of Barisciano (L’Aquila, Abruzzo) located in the Aterno Valley along the via Claudia Nova. The vicus has been identified since at least the 1700’s thanks to its correspondence with the toponym of the area conserved by the church of Santa Maria di Farfona and with the ancient name conserved by the celebrated Lex Aedis Furfensis (CIL IX, 3513). More recently in the 1990s some fieldwalking was undertaken which proposed an estimated extent of the vicus. The first year of research of the new project saw the application of diverse types of non-invasive survey: fieldwalking, geophysical prospection (magnetometry) and LiDAR survey. The detailed analysis of each technique, and the combined synthesis of the overall results, allows a new reading of the topography and chronology of the site: a new understanding of the area occupied by the settlement has emerged, considerably more extensive and structured then previously hypothesised, and the complex topography of its long continuity of habitation attested by the material culture, from the ’Vestina’ to the medieval period. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 586 - Margaret Andrews ̶ Seth Bernard ̶ Letizia Ceccarelli ̶ Emlyn Dodd ̶ Beatrice Fochetti ̶ Stephen Kay ̶ Erica Rowan ̶ Emanuela Spagnoli ̶ Angela Trentacoste. 2024. Interim Report on the Falerii Novi Project, 2021-2023. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 585 - Paolo Brocato - Luciano Altomare - Chiara Capparelli - Benedetto Carroccio - Filomena Costanzo - Aurelio Marino - Margherita Perri. 2024. Scavi nell’abitato del Timpone della Motta di Francavilla Marittima (CS): risultati preliminari della campagna 2022. This paper is a preliminary report of the results of the excavations of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the Università della Calabria in the settlement of Timpone della Motta in Francavilla Marittima (CS). During the fifth year of excavation, research was conducted on plateau II. Evidence has been found relating to huts and houses built in stone and raw earth, which represent two different phases of the site. The most important discovery is a hoard of coins from Sibari, Metaponto and Crotone, connected to the fall of Sibari and the consequences resulting from this historical moment on the Timpone della Motta. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 584 - Roberta Ferrini. 2024. Testimonianza di un antico sistema idraulico nella cavità ex 50 a Oriolo Romano (VT). In 2022, as part of the “Interventions to mitigate the hydrogeological risk in the Historic Center in an area classified as Danger class A (R4)” in the municipality of Oriolo Romano (VT), the Archeological Superintendence for the Province of Viterbo and southern Etruria required an inspection and a historical-archaeological study of all the artificial cavities. The intervention was deemed necessary following some failures of the road surface. The inspection of the last cavity, called ex-50, located in via Claudia 89, rlevealed the presence of three foot niches in the north wall of cellar A, which seemed to indicate the presence of a well. At the request of the SABAP official, Dr.C. Schwartz, a test trench was opened that re-vealed the position of a well, cut to the south and east by the excavation carried out in the nineteenth century for the con-struction of the cellar. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 583 - Paola Palmentola - Virginia Stasi - Nicoletta Azzollini. 2024. Frantumazione rituale e spargimento intenzionale. Le tombe 2 e 7/2018 da Monte Sannace. Tombs 2 and 7 are two sarcophagus burials found during the 2018 excavation in the lower part of the settlement of Mon-te Sannace, inside an area occupied through the Hellenistic period by the insula V. The burials were first used in the mid-dle of the 5th century B.C., then, shortly before the first half of the 4th century B.C., they were opened at the same time and emptied in order to place one new body inside of each. The reuse of the graves is testified by the intention-al shattering of the grave goods, and perhaps even the breaking up of the skeletal remains, and the spreading of their crushed remains outside the tombs and inside the ‘ripostiglio’ of tomb 2. The simultaneous opening and reuse of the tombs, alongside the fragmentation and the spreading of the grave goods in the area of the two sarcophagi demonstrate a unique ritual action linked to the funerary sphere. As the research expands to the context inside of which the ritual oc-curred, it is possible to understand how that ritual is linked to an area of the settlement with a specific destination be-tween the Archaic and the Hellenistic period. This area is, indeed, characterized both during the Archaic-Classical and the Hellenistic period by the presence of funerary remains and evidence of occupation, with exceptional connotation as-sociated with the ritual sphere PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 582 - Federico Zoni - Alessandro Bona. 2024. Le ricerche archeologiche presso il Dos del Castel a Teglio, Valtellina (SO): dalle indagini preliminari non invasive alle campagne di scavo 2022-2023. Archaeological investigations at Dos del Castel in Teglio (SO) started in 2021 with an initial research permit for non-invasive surveys. The project continued between 2022 and 2023 with an archaeological excavation. The site, renowned for its habitation spanning from pre/proto-history to the Middle Ages, underwent initial exploration through a series of tests aimed at assessing its archaeological potential. Subsequently, an extensive archaeological excavation took place, particularly in the area south of the castle tower. In this zone, numerous structures relevant to various phases of medieval occupation of the site were unearthed. The earliest phase, dating back to the 11th-12th century, featured relatively fragile structures, likely constructed from perishable materials, developed around the tower. Later, between the mid-13th century and the beginning of the 14th century, the initial structures were supplanted by a series of buildings, some of which were residential, constructed with stone walls and lime mortar. This period of architectural vitality within the castle is attributed to the armed conflicts that characterised the Valtellina region during this time. The discovered structures were likely intended to house the castle's military garrisons. With minor modifications and changes, these buildings remained in use throughout the 15th century, until the probable abandonment of the site in the course of the 16th century. The military nature of the site is corroborated by the material culture unearthed during the excavations, especially from the earthen floors of the buildings. Numerous iron objects related to weaponry (arrowheads, crossbow points, knives) and elements of military attire (chainmail, plate armor components) were discovered. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 581 - Melanie Jonasch – Linda Adorno. 2024. Selinunte: un altro saggio nella stratigrafia del pianoro di Manuzza. Rapporto preliminare. In 2021 the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute started a new collaborative project on the urban lay-out of Selinunte . Its objective is to complement the well-known schematic plan of the archaic and classical Greek city with a multilayered model that also considers the settlement’s development and transformations through time. Part of the multidis-ciplinary approach is a series of stratigraphic excavation trenches in the more remote parts of the city to investigate the bla-tant traces of well-known historical events as well as the gentle evolution of the communities and their habitat . Potential dif-ferences in the functional and social environment are also on the agenda. After the first promising results obtained in 2020 on the Manuzza-plateau, a larger trench was opened nearby to better understand the varied forms of use of the area through time. This preliminary report provides an overview of the main phases of occupation observed in trench M 2021/22 between the earliest evidence of human activity in the early Bronze Age and the relocation elsewhere of the Hellenistic population in the mid-3rd century BCE. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 580 - Emanuele Mariotti, Ada Salvi, Jacopo Tabolli. 2024. Bagno Grande 2023: diachronic and spatial news. Questo contributo presenta alcune delle novità emerse dalla campagna di scavi 2023 presso il santuario termale etrusco-romano del Bagno Grande di San Casciano dei Bagni (SI). In particolare, nonostante prevalgono gli elementi di continuità piuttosto che di discontinuità tra la fase etrusca e quella romano imperiale, più dati testimoniano il complesso processo di ‘manipolazione’ del passato di età etrusca operato nella prima età imperiale come visibile sia dalla stratificazione del record votivo che della topografia del santuario. Accanto alla permanenza di materiale di età etrusca (tardo-ellenistica in particolare) vengono discusse preliminarmente quelle che potrebbero costituire le prime evidenze strutturali del periodo etrusco e pre-imperiale dallo scavo in corso. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 579 - Natasha Luigia Antonino. 2024. Le lucerne di produzione locale del complesso catacombale tardoantico di Lamapopoli a Canosa di Puglia (BT): una proposta tipologica. In the north-eastern suburb of Canusium (locality Lamapopoli) there is a large and articulated cemetery complex, characterised by the coexistence of a sub divo necropolis and almost 15 hypogea (catacombs), both family and collective, excavated at different altitudes into the rocky hillslope that characterises the site. The frequentation of the entire cemetery is dated - without interruption - between the 2nd and 6th century AD, with an increase in funerary use from the mid-4th century onwards, when the construction of the catacombs intensified and exponentially strengthened the possibilities of cemetery occupation. Between 2004-2006 and, after a period of interruption, from 2016 to the present, archaeological investigations were conducted in a number of underground sites (A, C, F, G, H) from which the oil lamps examined originated. The locally produced specimens, dated to a period between the 4th and 6th centuries AD, consist of a considerable variety and quantity of types, which cannot currently be compared with other late antique sites in southern Italy. In particular, an attempt has been made here to propose a chrono-typological succession of oil-lamps that can almost certainly be traced back to local production, selecting a sample of specimens considered significant and illustrative of the various types attested. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 578 - Federica Riso - Cinzia Cavallari - Cristina Palazzini. 2024. La campagna archeologica 2020-2022 in località Cittanova di Modena. In Modena, north of the via Emilia in the Cittanova area, between 2020 and 2022, archaeological investigations were carried out north of the Roman sanctuary excavated between 2006 and 2009, as part of a new project aimed at creating the motor-way connection Campogalliano-Sassuolo. The research has highlighted a complex architectural complex, composed of a series of rooms that develop around a large courtyard area, characterized by gravel and brick leveling, inside which there were three wells, a pair of drainage channels, a quadrangular basin and structures that indicate, further north, service, productive or artisanal activities. In the southern sector, partially underground rooms were identified, equipped with floor coverings and a heating system with suspensurae and prae-furnium. The research is still ongoing, however, from a first analysis of the data collected, the complex seems to date between the 2nd BC and the 2nd century AD, with evidence of spoliation up to the end of the 4th century AD. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 577 - Filippo Materazzi – Marco Pacifici - Francesco Saverio Santaga. 2024. From top to bottom Multispectral Remote Sensing and Data Integration to Rediscover Veii. PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet
- 576 - Daniele De Simone – Graziano Ferrari. 2024. Acquedotto Augusteo della Campania Notizie preliminari sul tratto Fuorigrotta - Coroglio (Napoli). PDFpermalinkRecord Sheet