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Excavation

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

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Credits

  • 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 portico (second half of the 1st century B.C.) of the forum at Grumentum comprises three wings which join the Capitolium to the north and the Augusteum to the south. The building has an opus reticulatum facing, finished with red-painted plaster. Several layers of collapse sealed a late antique (3rd to 4th century A.D.) occupation level with a beaten earth floor, a hearth and an infant burial.

    In the northern sector, evidence came to light which demonstrates that the Capitolium (first half of the 1st century A.D.) post-dates the portico itself. The ancient paving of the forum was in limestone basoli, very little of which is still in place, due to robbing.

    The Augustan basilica consistyed of a large rectangular hall (41 × 17m), bordered to the west and south by a wide wall. Its inner face, in opus reticulatum, incorporated 10 evenly spaced semi-columns. To the east was a portico with a double row of columns, to the north a closed room (the Curia?). All that remains of this structure are the archaeological levels which are in phase with several houses (3rd to 1st century B.C.), that were demolished when the basilica was built.
    The entrance to the portico, on the south side, must have been closed by a double wooden door.

    The decumanus, paved in large basoli during the course of the 2nd century A.D., crossed the city on a N-S axis, passing the forum on its western side, after passing beneath an arch. Between the basilica and the decumanus several rooms in association with a well (2nd to 1st century B.C.) came to light. These were perhaps workshops for the production of high quality metal artefacts.

    So far, only a part of the area seems to have continued in use during the late Imperial period (4th to 5th century A.D.): several walls were put in to close off the original portico, filling the spaces between the columns in order to create new rooms and a simple beaten earth floor covers the basalt paving of the decumanus, attesting its continued use. (Maria Luisa Nava)

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

Director

  • Maria Luisa Nava - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Team

  • Cesare Raho
  • Gianbattista Sassi
  • Rocco Albini

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