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Excavation

  • Grumentum, Foro
  • Grumentum
  • Grumentum
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Potenza
  • Grumento Nova

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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 2010 excavations uncovered the paving in the area adjacent to Temple C (room A). In room D, inside the Porticus, the floor in phase with the temple was identified, together with the remains of the building site which had cut the beaten surface situated in the underlying layer.

    Excavations continued on the round temple, east of the Capitolium. The altar with an external paving, of which the cement foundations remained, was found in front of the access stairway. It was observed that most of the paving in phase with the temple must have been removed, whilst an earlier beaten surface was uncovered, attesting the temple’s building site (post holes and stone chippings). A few fragments of pottery of Augustan date were found above this beaten surface and below the level in phase with the temple. A trench dug between the temple and the back wall of the forum showed that the forum surface was originally on the same level as the temple, but was then substantially raised when the stylobate of the portico was leveled to eliminate the north-west/south-east slope. Thus the back wall of the forum became a terracing wall. When the temple was built the latter was abutted by two orthogonal walls which framed the temple itself and supported the portico roof. The east wall was identified by magnetometer. Part of the trellis fresco decorating the portico was found on the external face of the back wall.

    Excavations continued in the area to the east of the Porticus which closed the long side of the forum, investigating the 5th-6th century phase. This was mainly attested by walls whose collapse was followed by heavy robbing, probably in order to extract clay from the ground. Three main phases were identified for the imperial period: a late phase in which the walls reduced the width of the central room under excavation, one in which several columns were replaced with pillars and the earliest phase representing the creation of the residential area, with a staircase, of which the base was preserved.

    A trench in the basilica area revealed the occupation phases of the house which came to light below the Roman levels. It was built in the 2nd century after pits had been dug in the clayey terrain (perhaps to quarry clay); the fill in these pits contained Hellenistic materials, whilst one pit filled with 4th century A.D. materials showed that the paving of the Roman basilica had already been removed in this phase.

    Finally, a series of magnetometer-gradiometer surveys identified numerous domus and other structures in the area next to the forum.

  • Attilio Mastrocinque - Università degli Studi di Verona 

Director

Team

  • Barbara Lepri - Università di Roma
  • Elisa Tomasella - Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
  • Enrico Cirelli - Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Fabio Saggioro - Università degli Studi di Verona
  • Giulia Bison - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Mariama Bonturi - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Teresa Peretti - Università di Genova
  • Vanessa Centola - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Antonio De Siena - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università di Verona
  • Chiara Marchetti - Università di Roma
  • Federica Candelato - Università di Verona
  • Fiammetta Soriano - Università di Verona
  • Lianka Camerlengo - Università degli Studi di Roma
  • Massimo Saracino
  • Vincenzo Scalfari - Università di Ferrara
  • Studenti, dottorandi, specializzandi delle Università di Bari, Bologna, Roma, Salerno, Venezia, Verona

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
  • Università degli Studi di Verona

Funding Body

  • Comune di Grumento Nova

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