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Series Number
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523
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Title
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Un nuovo palinsesto nell’insula a sud del foro di Egnazia:
da abitazione indigena a domus del municipio
e ad edificio religioso nella città del vescovo
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Date of Publication
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2022
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Abstract
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The interdisciplinary project ‘Egnazia: from the excavation to the valorisation’, by the Department of Research and Humanistic Innovation of the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, pay attention to the insula in the South area of the Egnazia forum, where first the public baths and then the near peristyle domus were identified and studied. The survey has been extended to an adjacent area of the same insula since 2015, where an articulated palimpsest was identified: it is now introduced organically for the first time.
This area was characterized by the indigenous inhabitation between 6th and 3rd c. B.C., the first investigated by stratigraphic excavation in Egnazia, composed by a large house and its funerary area. A rich atrium domus was building here on the first half of 2nd c. B.C., which lives up to the end of 4th A.D., when this area was acquired by the ecclesiastic authority for building a new religious structure.
The sequence allows to read the urban continuity and transformation with new elements both for occupation manner and ‘cultural landscape’, in particular for the inhabit ways, the cults, the relationship between the alive people, deaths and divinity spaces.
