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Excavation

  • Masseria del Gigante
  • Cuma
  • Kyme
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Pozzuoli

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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)

  • Excavation continued on the south-eastern side of the area west of the Temple with Portico confirming the occupation across the entire area in the archaic period. A wall with double facing of yellow tufa blocks attested this phase. It belonged to a structure in whose southern side were preserved traces of a threshold. About 8.63 m of the wall were exposed. The residential nature of the area was documented by a patch of floor surface relating to the period between the end of the 7th- beginning of the 6th century B.C. As in earlier campaigns, continuity of occupation with radical transformations was also documented in this area.

    At the end of the 3rd century B.C., an enclosure wall was built on a north-south alignment. About 15 m of this structure were excavated showing that it had no foundations but rested directly on a levelled and compacted surface created for the building of new structures. Between the end of the 1st century B.C. and the beginning of the 1st century A.D., all of these preexisting structures were razed and leveled and a monumental building with a portico was built (partially excavated in earlier campaigns). This remained in function until the late antique period when it was systematically robbed.

    In the late antique period, the area was gradually abandoned and the spaces used for the creation of small tanks, probably linked to craft working activities, and drains partially reusing the imperial water channelling system. The new occupation occurred following the systematic destruction and dismantling of the imperial monumental buildings in order to recover the building materials. The structures relating to artisan activity were short lived and quickly abandoned; once again the area changed function, as attested in this area by a section of an early Christian necropolis, to be associated with that found on the eastern side of the area during the 2006 excavations.

    The ten burials identified were almost all “a cappucina” tombs carefully covered with tegulae and imbrices. They were mainly adult burials apart from a small “a cappucina” tomb and an enchythrismos burial.

  • Maria Luisa Nava - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Carlo Gasparri - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
  • Giovanna Greco - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

Team

  • Studenti universitari, specializzandi, dottorandi
  • Antonella Tomeo - Università “Federico II”

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Funding Body

  • Compagnia di S. Paolo

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