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Excavation

  • Acropoli, grande santuario urbano
  • Selinunte
  • Selinus
  • Italy
  • Sicily
  • Province of Trapani
  • Castelvetrano

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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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Periods

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Season

    • In 2006, the Institute of Fine Arts, in collaboration first with the Superintendency of Trapani and later the newly established Archaeological Park of Selinunte, started a new project of topographical, architectural, and archaeological investigation of the... Read More
    • The mission’s first excavation season in the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte, conducted between May and June, saw the opening of three trenches in the southwestern area of the sanctuary.

      The largest trench was opened along the western front of Temple B

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    • The project’s second excavation season was carried out between May and June, with four trenches opened in the southern area of Selinunte’s urban sanctuary.

      The first trench was opened against the east front of Temple B, within the original boundaries of t

      ... Read More
    • Between May and July we carried out our third campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte, opening four trenches.

      The largest trench was opened along the western side of the altar of Temple B (Trench H, 2.00 × 3.85 m). In this trench,

      ... Read More
    • In May and June we carried out our fourth campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary. A trench was opened (Trench L, 1.65 × 4.40 m) along the course of ashlar blocks placed against the front of Temple R. The eastern limit of this trench consisted o... Read More
    • In May and June we carried out our fifth campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary. Excavation this season consisted of the opening of a small trench (Trench M, 1.80 × 2.40 m) against the east front of Temple R, in correspondence of the southern h... Read More
    • In May and June we carried out our sixth campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary. Excavation this season consisted of the opening of a trench (Trench O, 2.62 × 3.43 m) in correspondence to the SE corner Temple R’s cella, including part of the do... Read More
    • In May and June we carried out our seventh campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary. Excavation this season consisted of the opening of a large trench (Trench P, 3.90 × 4.66 m) in correspondence of the western two-thirds of the adyton, the innerm... Read More
    • In May and June we carried out our eighth campaign of excavation in the main urban sanctuary. Work this season consisted of the continued excavation of Trench P, opened in the previous year in the adyton of Temple R. By the end of the season, the Classical... Read More
    • Between June 2 and July 7, 2023 work within and around Temple R continued with the opening of two trenches (SAS T and SAS U), while a third trench was opened as part of a new project studying the sanctuary’s peribolos wall (SAS V).

      SAS T was positioned in

      ... Read More
    • In 2024, excavation continued within Temple R, with SAS T, dug in 2023 to the level of the temple’s original construction phases, excavated down to bedrock. Intact foundation deposits were found alongside strata associated with the construction of the temp... Read More
    • Nel 2024 lo scavo è proseguito all’interno del tempio R con il Saggio SAS T, scavato nel 2023 fino al livello della fase originaria del tempio, che è stato scavato fino alla roccia vergine. Sono stati trovati strati intatti relativi alla fondazione insieme... Read More

FOLD&R

    • Rebecca A. Salem - Kate Minniti. 2024. A New Investigation of the Peribolos Wall of the Main Urban Sanctuary at Selinunte . FOLD&R Italy: 588.
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