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Excavation

  • Guastuglia
  • Guastuglia
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  • Italy
  • Umbria
  • Province of Perugia
  • Gubbio

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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)

  • The 2007 excavations were concentrated within the ample sector explored during the 2005-2006 campaigns, delimited by a monumental channels and monolithic hollowed out blocks for water drainage, connected to a monumental portico of which the entire southern foundation wall was preserved. At the centre of the area the imposing foundations of a temple were uncovered. The entrance faced towards the south-east and the structure measured 7.40 × 11.54 m (25 × 39 Roman feet). The plan was that typical of Roman temples, a cella with colonnaded pronaos at the front. Obviously the cella was destined to house the cult statue, as shown by the discovery of the foundations upon which the statue’s pedestal stood, situated on the main axis of the structure at the centre of the back wall.

    The investigations, still incomplete, undertaken below this pedestal brought to light animal bones and fragments of burnt pottery probably relating to some sort of ritual. The remains of another votive deposit were explored within the western foundation trench and can probably be related to the construction of the temple’s perimeter walls. This deposit also contained numerous fragments of pottery, lamps, bone and traces of charcoal. On the basis of the pottery finds, which are still to be fully studied, the temple has been dated to the final decades of the 1st century B.C. A stretch of foundation wall belonging to the monumental portico that must have surrounded the cult building also came to light, thus the continuation of the two walls was identified, running parallel to each other on a north-south alignment in front of the temple entrance.

    At the centre of the trench, in the space between the two walls, an number of large stone blocks were exposed. In the southern corner of the trench there was a line of four large stone blocks. Their arrangement and alignment suggests that they were part of a substantial wall which surrounded the entire sanctuary.

  • Giuseppe Basciu - Università degli Studi di Perugia 

Director

  • Gian Luca Grassigli - Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Uomo e Territorio, Sez. Studi comparati sulle Società Antiche

Team

  • Fabio Minotti - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Marco Menichini - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Patrizia Gagliardi - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Roberto Masciarri - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Francesco Marcattili - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Studenti - Università degli Studi di Perugia

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Uomo e Territorio, Sez. Studi comparati sulle Società Antiche

Funding Body

  • Comune di Gubbio

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