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Excavation

  • Monte San Nicola
  • Pietravairano
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Vairano Patenora

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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)

  • In June 2005 excavations continued on the theatre-temple complex on Monte San Nicola in the municipality of Pietravairano.

    A study of the building techniques ( opus incertum with quoining of small limestone blocks) and of the small amount of residual pottery, dated the monument to within the first quarter of the 1st century B.C. The excavation of specifically placed trenches undertaken by the University of Lecce defined the stratigraphic sequence and architectural organization of the complex, with particular reference to the link between the cavea and the temple terrace.

    A trench placed in correspondence with the eastern sector of the cavea confirmed the absence of structures outside the analemma wall, highlighting the presence of the radial stairways linking the media and summa cavea, as well as the diazoma between these two sectors. The research was completed by surface surveys carried out along the crest of the mount. In an area east of the emerging structures a survey identified a tile collapse and a curved wall made of parallelepiped blocks belonging to a small building, probably with an apse, that may be identified with the chapel of the already known medieval settlement.

  • Stefano De Caro - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Francesco Sirano - Soprintendenza per i beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta
  • Gianluca Tagliamonte

Team

  • Antonella Natali – Università degli studi di Lecce
  • Dario Panariti – Università degli studi di Lecce
  • Luigi Cinque – Università degli studi di Lecce
  • Luciano M. Rendina

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Funding Body

  • Università degli Studi di Lecce

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