Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C. - 550 d.C.) (original) (raw)
2015
This volume is the first in series of works detailing the archaeological investigations of the ager Rusellanus, in coastal southern Etruria, undertaken by the Alberese Archaeological Project. It focuses on the Roman temple and sanctuary dedicated to Diana Umbronensis, located at Scoglietto (Alberese – GR) on the ancient Tyrrhenian coast. In so doing it adds to the study of trade and settlement networks in ancient Italy, and provides new data on the character of Roman and late antique Etruria. The book discusses the changing aspect and character of the sanctuary over approximately eight centuries – from its foundation in the mid-2nd century BC and substantial refurbishment in the Antonine period, to its destruction in the 4th century AD and the varied use and reuse of the site through the following two centuries. It includes archaeological, historical and landscape studies, as well as detailed architectural and material culture studies for a composite interpretation of the site and its history. Questo volume è il primo di una serie di lavori che descrive le indagini archeologiche nell’ager Rusellanus, nell’Etruria costiera meridionale, intraprese dal Progetto Archeologico Alberese. Questo libro si concentra sui templi Romani e il santuario dedicato a Diana Umbronensis, localizzati presso Scoglietto (Alberese – GR) sull’antica costa Tirrenica e fornisce nuovi dati sullo studio dei commerci e della rete insediativa nell’Italia antica e dell’Etruria romana e tardoantica. Al suo interno sono discussi gli aspetti di cambiamento del santuario lungo i suoi otto secoli di storia – dalla sua fondazione nel corso della metà del II secolo a.C. e il sostanziale restauro dell’età Antonina, sino alla sua distruzione nel IV secolo d.C. e i vari usi e riusi del sito nei due secoli successivi. Il libro contiene studi di carattere archeologico, storico e paesaggistico, così come analisi dettagliate della cultura materiale e dell’architettura al fine di fornire un quadro composito dell’insediamento e della sua storia.
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A. Sebastiani et alii (a cura di), Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C.-550 d.C.), Alberese Archaeological Project Monographs Series, 1, Oxford 2015
Abstract: The high percentage of oil lamps among the pottery finds in the area of Scoglietto Sanctuary is particularly important, because the presence of abundant light fittings on this site clearly needs to be examined in relation to the prac-tices of ritual and worship. Two main contexts are considered in this chapter. The first is connected with the substantial reconstruction of the Temple at the end of the 2nd century AD that led to the accumulation of a considerable number of lamps in a single location, which were probably used as ex-voto. By contrast, the second concerns the late-Roman levels of destruction and abandonment (second half of the 4th - first half of the 5th century AD), in which the remarkable quan-tity of lamps found provides a glimpse of the continuity of pagan worship in the “Christian” age. Here, we examine, the provenance of the lamps and the routes they travelled before reaching Scoglietto and we will try to understand what these objects tell us about those who placed them in the temple, between the end of the 2nd century AD and Late Antiquity.
published in "Diana Umbronensis a Scoglietto. Santuario, Territorio e Cultura Materiale (200 a.C. – 550 d.C.), Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 3, pp. 244-278, 2015
The archaeological excavations at Scoglietto (Grosseto - Italy) uncovered 112 Roman, Byzantine and post-medieval coins. This paper analyses the numismatic assemblage and investigates the source of the coins in relation to the stratigraphic evidence. Other coin assemblages are taking into account in order to provide a much wider picture of the circulation, especially in the Mid to Late Imperial period. The recovery of a quantity of coins in the nearby caves of Scoglietto and Spaccasasso, as well as from the manufacturing district of Spolverino and the Roman villas around, provide the opportunity to compare this evidence with the wider territory of the ager Rusellanus and the city of Rusellae itself.
During the excavations at Scoglietto, a small rectangular shrine built on a different orientation to the main tem- ple structures was discovered on the western part of the hill. From preliminary observations it was considered to belong to the first phase of occupation. In summer 2011, an excavation was carried out to investigate this shrine and its relationship to the other structures and to clarify the first phase of the sanctuary. The excavations revealed a small temple in antis with an associated temenos. The ceramic assemblage and stratigraphic analysis suggest that this belonged to the Hellenistic phase and was probably utilized as the principal temple. During the Early Imperial period, when a larger temple was built on the other side of the hill together with other structures, the settlement plan was completely redesigned and the shrine converted into a small treasury with the religious focus shifting towards the main temple. Maintaining continuity with this we propose that the deity formerly venerated at Scoglietto was the Etruscan Artumes and that the small shrine was the first aedes belonging to this goddess. The presence of a quantity of lamps has been interpreted as the result of chthonic and nocturnal rites typical of the cult of Diana Triformis.
Materiali protostorici dal Tempio di Diana a Nemi (Roma)
In the area of the Roman sanctuary dedicated to Diana, placed near the shore of the Nemi Lake, in 2007 a Late Prehistoric undisturbed level was found; the excavation brought to light a broad ‘wall’ built with large pieces of local stones. This evidence is probably connected with the regularization and the arrangement of the slope, and can be dated to the Late Bronze Age due to the pot sherds found in the relative layer. Other sherds, discovered in disturbed levels, testify a more ancient occupation of the site dating back to the Neolithic.
The aim of this paper is a synthetic examination of Diana in the small Roman bronzes of northern Italy. After some hints to other kinds of documents of the worship to the goddess, are listed the all-round statuettes, related animals, full-length appliques, bust-appliques. Due to lack of space, the bronze testimonies of Luna, Hecate, Artemis Ephesia are excluded. As in the rest of the Empire, bronze statuettes of Diana are less attested than those of other divinities in northern Italy; the distribution of bronze figurines depicting the goddess is greater in the northeast part of the examined area. KEY WORDS – Roman bronzes, statuettes of Diana/Artemis, Roman northern Italy.
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