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Excavation

  • Ipogeo di Clepsina
  • Cerveteri
  • Caere

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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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    Periods

    • No period data has been added yet

    Season

      • A research project was launched by the Queen’s University in the central area of the plateau of Caere where the ‘hypogeum of Clepsina’ is located. Its first stage consisted of a campaign of geophysical survey over a large area between the Via delle Vigne a... Read More
      • After the first campaign of 2012 the team of Queen’s University resumed their research project in the former Marini-Vitalini vineyard of Cerveteri.

        The area of trench 2, where in 2012 a street and foundations of buildings had come to light, was re-open

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      • In 2014 the team of Queen’s University resumed the investigation of the former Vigna Marini-Vitalini. Trench 3 was opened near the entrance of the hypogaeum of Clepsina, in part overlapping the area excavated by the University of Perugia in 2001-2003. The ... Read More
      • The excavation of Vigna Marini Vitalini has resumed in 2015 with the re-opening and enlargement of Area 2. It was verified that the earliest phase of the long wall that crosses the area dates to the Archaic period. Remains of deposits of the Late Iron Age ... Read More
      • The excavation of Vigna Marini Vitalini has resumed in 2015 with the re-opening and enlargement of Area 2 towards NW. The team excavated some rooms located NE and SW of a space interpreted as an open courtyard (E3) with a pool in the middle which is connec... Read More
      • This season, the investigations in the ex Vigna Marini-Vitalini continued with the reopening of the hypogeum’s atrium, backfilled after a partial excavation in 2006, and the excavation of the surrounding area. The bottom level of the atrium was reached in ... Read More
      • In 2018 the team of Queen’s University resumed the investigation of the former Marini Vitalini vineyard, completing the excavation of the cavaedium of the hypogaeum of Clepsina. The structure is a deep pool with flat bottom and is accessible through a stai... Read More
      • In 2019 the team of Queen’s University opened three trenches near the hypogaeum of Clepsina. The first allowed to investigate the layers abutting the SE wall of the cavaedium and its foundation trench. Finds have confirmed the dating of the hypogaeum to th... Read More
    • 1400 BC
    • 700 BC
    • 150 AD