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At the end of a long history of increasingly close relationships with her neighbor, the Etruscan city of Caere became a sort of "satellite state" of Rome and was eventually transformed into a praefectura in 273 B.C.E. Historians have focused on the institutional aspect of the process, with the progressive "softening" of the political frontier between the two cities through the ciuitas sine suffragio, which paved the way for eventual assimilation. Archaeologists have considered this event as the end of the glorious history of Etruscan Caere. New evidence from Queen's University's ongoing excavation at Vigna Marini, however, demonstrates that the third century B.C.E. was a period of especially intense building activity, probably even of large-scale renovation of this sector of the urban area. The re-evaluation of the evidence from other archaeological contexts of Caere confirms the new data and contributes to serious questioning of the traditional narrative.

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- Etruscan Archaeology, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Caere, Roman Archaeology

Tra i personaggi che animarono la vita intellettuale di Roma nella prima metà del secolo XIX, Donna Teresa Caetani, nata de' Rossi, rappresenta sicuramente un caso d'interesse sia per quanto riguarda le vicende dell'alta nobiltà romana, sia per l'archeologia, che proprio in quel periodo iniziava a muovere i suoi primi ed incerti passi verso una propria strutturazione come Altertumswissenschaft, come scienza dell'antichità. In questa sede si tenterà una ricostruzione del profilo biografico di questa nobildonna, dai tratti contraddittori e a volte "scomodi", soprattutto per la società del suo tempo, operando una sintesi tra i dati già editi e quelli inediti, questi ultimi raccolti in archivio, durante le ricerche riguardanti la sua attività di scavo nell'Etruria meridionale.

- by Simone Grosso
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- Etruscan Archaeology, Caetani Family History, Etruscologia, Storia Dell'Archeologia

In the excavations at vigna Marini-Vitalini a considerable amount of impasto and geometric pottery was found, expecially from the iayers in the area of the orientalizingbuiiding. There are red impasto and brown impasto, in which the attention is drawn to a skyphos with dotted heron. The class of italo-geometric pottery includes several shapes and most probably four-handled cups also. There are furthermore some imports from Greece, a fragment of r,rpc tall-koryle, a fragment of euboic skyphos with meander and a rype of late geometric euboic cup, rarely found in the West.

- by Cristiana Zaccagnino
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- Pottery (Archaeology), Etruscology, Caere, Etruscan pottery

L'antichissima diocesi di Centumcellae.Le origini.i vescovi,i confini.314-1093.

- by Odoardo Toti
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- Caere, Pyrgi, Monti Della Tolfa, Santa Marinella Castrum Novum
- by Cinzia Rampazzo
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- Etruscan Archaeology, Etruscology, Santuari Etruschi, Etruscan studies

During recent excavations, a small number of “matt-painted” pottery fragments were found at Caere in Southern Etruria.
The finds belong to a class of Subgeometric pottery produced in Northern Lucania. So far, this pottery has never been
found outside Southern Italy. The present paper aims to reconsider finds of South Italian indigenous pottery in Etruria,
in order to compare the data with the distribution of Etruscan imports in Southern Italy. While in the Early Iron Age,
Tarquinia seems to have played a leading role in the exchange with “Oinotrian” groups settling in Southern Italy, from
the 7th century onwards, archaeological finds point to contacts between Caere and Northern Lucania as well as Daunia.

The landing place of the Etruscan site of Alsium is not as well-known as the most important of Caere’s harbors, Pyrgi, and its supposed location has fluctuated between the promontory of Palo, where the Roman colonia maritima is located, and the site of the famous so-called “Villa of Pompey”, about 2 km further south.Nowadays the second hypothesis seems to be the most likely. Its geographical position, dominating the alluvial plain of the Tiber, its proximity to the mouth of the Cupino stream, the placement of important necropolises such as S. Paolo and Monteroni along the route from Caere to Alsium, as well as the discovery and rediscovery of a number of interesting contexts are just some of the main indications in favour of this “petite acropole”. However, there is still no archaeological proof of this theory and currently it is only possible to outline a few preliminary considerations about the role played by Alsium, from the Orientalizing period onwards, in contacts with Mediterranean trade routes and, through to the Cupino valley, with the territorial sections overlooking Bracciano Lake and the Tiber valley.

- by Simone Grosso
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- Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Etruscan Archaeology, Ports and Harbours
- by Laura Petacco
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- Viabilita Antica, Caere, Pyrgi

In this paper, we intend to examine some modern huts, in order to help us to understand better and to interpret the archaeological remains of huts. The tradition of building huts in the countryside has today been replaced by that of building stone houses, but huts can still be found in very restricted numbers. They are used for various purposes, for example, as structures reminiscent of the past at local festivities or for use as Storage spaces for agricultural tools. Still to be seen in the 1950s and 1960s, the huts today represent only relics of a past knowledge, which was the result of long experience. Now only a few old farmers or shepherds preserve this knowledge. We will present a couple of modern hut constructions and some archaeological discoveries in the area of Monti della Tolfa north of Rome. In restoring these huts, we take into account the technical wisdom which has been transmitted orally.

- by Francesco Galluccio
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- Età Orientalizzante, Ricognizione Archeologica, Caere, Etruscan pottery

The bas-relief of the Lateran Museum representing three personifications of Etruscan peoples was found during the excavations in Caere in 1840, together with several portraits of members of the julio-claudian imperial family. The analysis of the marble slab allows a reconstruction of the monument as a revetment of an altar decorated by the depiction of the 15 Etruscan peoples of the re-enacted Etruscan league of julio-claudian age. The relief could be a reproduction of a more ambitious monuments of the League dedicated to the emperor.

- by Paolo Liverani
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- Julio-Claudian Emperors, Roman Sculpture, Roman Art, Caere

Scoperta di sculture nelle necropoli del territorio di Cerveteri - Caere

- by Francesco Galluccio
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- Sculpture, Etruscan Tombs, Tarquinia, Scultura
- by Cristiano De Vita
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- Archeologia dei paesaggi, Caere, Divisioni Agrarie, Aerofotointerpretazione

In this paper we review a saite New Year Flask housed at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid). It was purchased in 1879 by the Museum from an Italian collector, monsignore Pietro Taggiasco who -most probably- had adquired this item from dealers in Etruscan and Roman antiquities.
Estudiamos en este trabajo una cantimplora saíta depositada en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid) procedente de la compra realizada por el Museo al coleccionista italiano monseñor Pietro Taggiasco en 1879 quien -casi con toda certeza- la había adquirido a tratantes de antigüedades etruscas y romanas.

- by Miguel Jaramago
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- Etruscan Archaeology, Saite Period, Etruscan Tombs, Etruscan studies
- by Martin Bentz
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- Tarquinia, Caere, Klassische Archäologie, Pyrgi

From 2012 the Queen's University of Kingston (Ontario, Canada) carries out the archeological excavation of Vigna Marini Vitalini, in a central area of the plateau of the Etruscan and Roman city of Caere, 35 km N of Rome. The stratigraphic sequence spans from the Early Iron Age to the modern occupation, but the most significant evidence dates to the period between the 3rd century B.C. - when the Etruscan city was incorporated into the Roman State - and the 1st-2nd century AD.
In this paper a preliminary picture of the development of the trade networks of the site between the Middle Republic and the Roman Imperial Period will be outlined based on the amphoras found at Vigna Marini Vitalini. The evidence from the site will be put in the broader contest of the coast and the hinterland of central Tyrrhenian Italy.

- by Michele Scalici
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- Pottery (Archaeology), Roman Pottery, Amphorae (Archaeology), Roman Amphorae
- by Alessandro Naso
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- Caere

From 2012 the Queen's University of Kingston (Ontario, Canada) carries out the archeological excavation of Vigna Marini Vitalini, in a central area of the plateau of the Etruscan and Roman city of Caere, 35 km N of Rome. The stratigraphic sequence spans from the Early Iron Age to the modern occupation, but the most significant evidence dates to the period between the 3rd century B.C. - when the Etruscan city was incorporated into the Roman State - and the 1st century AD.
In this paper a preliminary picture of the development of the trade networks of the site between the Middle Republic and the Roman Imperial Period will be outlined based on the amphoras found at Vigna Marini Vitalini. The evidence from the site will be put in the broader contest of the coast and the hinterland of central Tyrrhenian Italy.

- by Michele Scalici
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- Roman Pottery, Etruscan Archaeology, Roman Amphorae, Early Roman Amphorae
- by Cristiana Zaccagnino
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- Attic black-figured vases, Attic pottery, Ceramica Attica, Caere

Les recherches sur Castrum Novum sont financées par cinq institutions : la mairie de Santa Marinella, dont nous remercions le maire, R. Bacheca, le Centre de recherches en arts (Université d'Amiens), dirigé par H. Joubert-Laurencin, l'UMR 8546 (CNRS-ENS), dirigé par S. Verger, le Centre de recherches TRAME (Université d'Amiens), dirigé par M. Paoli et le Centre de recherches HALMA-IPEL (Université de Lille 3), dirigé par L. Sève.

- by Jordan Boucard
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- Art, Caere, Cerveteri, Balneum

The study of the urban alignment of the settlement of Pyrgi and of the arrangement of the sacred areas was favoured by its abandonment after the phase of Romanization and by the possibility of performing large-scale research over its territory. The harbour and the sanctuary of Pyrgi were a fundamental pole of attraction for foreign haunters as the outpost of the metropolis of Caere. Their development was strictly linked to Pyrgi’s favourable geographical position along the Tyrrhenian maritime routes and to the presence of a water spring. The settlement was founded at the end of the 7th century BC, and was connected to Caere by means of a large road. The excavations conducted since 1957 by the Sapienza University of Rome next to the terminal section of the Caere-Pyrgi road brought to light a large sacred district. The new excavation area (2009-2016) is located in the district between the sanctuary and the settlement. It includes different buildings datable to 600 BC-4th century BC er...

- by Maria Paola Baglione
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- Archaeology, Etruscan, Etruscan Archaeology, Etruscan Funerary Art
- by Faya Causey
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- Caere
- by Orlando Cerasuolo
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- Caere
- by Raffaella Viccei
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- Funerary Archaeology, Etruscology, Dionysus, Dioniso

Review of the exhibition Il colore degli Etruschi (Rome, Centrale Montemartini)

- by Giuseppe Pucci
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- Heritage Conservation, Etruscan Archaeology, Exhibitions, Etruscan studies
- by Isidoro Tantillo
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- Etruscan Religion, Caere

This article tries to unravel the complexity of the position of the independent archaeologist in the politics of publishing looted antiquities. During the process of publishing material belonging to Archaic temple roofs in Caere (Etruria) and Caprifico (Latium) in the last ten years, the author was forced into an uncomfortable position between the Italian authorities and European museums that had been asked to return the stolen properties to Italy. While a solution to the problem still seems out of reach concerning the collection of Caeretan architectural terracottas held in custody by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, fragments of a demolished roof from Caprifico, once forming part of collections of both the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Antikenmuseum in Basel, found their way back to their original homeland in Cori (Latium). The author stresses that publication of looted material should not be blocked by laws and opinions formulated in the battle for the return of the archeological objects. Instead, publication should be the ultimate goal in the archaeological world and European heritage politics. A new international policy regarding the repatriation of archaeological heritage is desired, not in the least by many Italian academics. Such a policy should emphasize an atmosphere of respectful negotiation between the different participants. In the view of the author, it is a European responsibility to provide the opportunity for specialists to continue publishing illegally acquired archaeological objects without the restrictions of the current political situations and controversies.