South Italian Archaeology Research Papers (original) (raw)
2025, ASAtene 102.1
The analysis and the distribution of the Greek imported and Greek-inspired pottery of the 8th c. in the south-eastern Italy reveals significant differences between the sites of the Adriatic coast (Salento) and those of the gulf of... more
The analysis and the distribution of the Greek imported and Greek-inspired pottery of the 8th c. in the south-eastern Italy reveals significant differences between the sites of the Adriatic coast (Salento) and those of the gulf of Taranto/Ionian coast. The comparison of the data collected shows that some peculiar behaviours distinguish and characterize these two areas. While in the Salento only Greek pottery is attested, mainly Corinthian and especially in Otranto, on the Ionian coast, along with smaller quantities of imports concentrated mainly in the Sibaritide, local production of Greek-inspired, non-Corinthian, pottery are documented in the same period. It is then argued that this can postulate the existence of separate circulation flows, a commercial one on the Adriatic coast and a “cultural” one on the Ionian, and that, ultimately, these differences may have contributed to the development of different cultural processes. In fact, the phenomena recorded on the Ionian coast could have acted, consciously or unconsciously, as the background for the spread of the colonization in the last decades of the century.
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Political conflicts and wars, as well as times of truces and possible treaties of emporia, marked the hard coexistence between the Brettioi and the Greek poleis (ca. 350-250 BC). The long contacts and mixtures fostered a great and... more
Political conflicts and wars, as well as times of truces and possible treaties of emporia, marked the hard coexistence between the Brettioi and the Greek poleis (ca. 350-250 BC). The long contacts and mixtures fostered a great and increasing cultural koiné of the two populations. The settlement of Castiglione di Paludi is a model of this Hellenization of the barbaroi that, despite "ethnic and cultural hybridism", preserved the non-Greek political system. The massive fortification was built according to the best Greek siege techniques of the mid 4th century BC. After the death of Alexander the Molossian (331 BC) Greek architects, indigenous craftsmen and stonemasons, cooperated in the same construction site far an expensive military building, which demonstrates the resolute political patronage and advanced militar strategies of the Brettioi, aiming at rejecting every army of the Greeks and mercenaries.
2025, Bientina e Sibari
Il dualismo etrusco-ligure e altri esempi di forzature archeologiche dal sud Italia
2025
Selecció de fonts iconogràfiques antigues sobre el mite de Medea
2025, Rutigliano I. La necropoli di contrada Purgatorio. Scavo 1978, (a cura di E.M. De Juliis), Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto II, 2
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2025
Analysis of Middle Bronze Age materials and archaeological contexts in western Basilicata.
2025
Nelle società greche e romane, la religione svolgeva un ruolo centrale nell'affrontare i pericoli durante le battaglie, mobilitando mezzi sia materiali che rituali. Prima del combattimento, la divinazione permette di comprendere la... more
Nelle società greche e romane, la religione svolgeva un ruolo centrale nell'affrontare i pericoli durante le battaglie, mobilitando mezzi sia materiali che rituali. Prima del combattimento, la divinazione permette di comprendere la volontà degli dei, mentre i sacrifici e i rituali di purificazione mirano ad ottenere il loro favore. Sia nella religione greca che in quella romana, poiché si ritiene che gli dei si schierino in un conflitto e combattano al fianco degli uomini, i rituali eseguiti prima della battaglia mirano sempre a garantire il loro sostegno e protezione durante lo scontro. Questo tema multidisciplinare verrà approfondito nel corso del convegno concentrandosi su due grandi filoni di ricerca: il primo dedicato allo studio delle pratiche religiose come la divinazione, i sacrifici e i riti propiziatori, attraverso l'analisi di fonti letterarie e iconografiche, al fine di comprenderne le interpretazioni e i loro impatti. La seconda affronta gli aspetti materiali della religione guerriera, attraverso l'intersezione di fonti archeologiche, iconografiche e letterarie; in particolare l'attrezzatura decorata utilizzata per tentare di controllare il caso. Questi artefatti, decorati con divinità e simboli divini, combinano protezione fisica e invocazione rituale, mettendo in discussione il legame tra materialità e poteri divini evocati nel contesto del combattimento.
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"Il territorio come spazio della memoria: mutamenti, continuità e innovazioni" Presiede Prof. A. Burgio, Università degli Studi di Palermo 10.00 -10.15 Francesca Spadaro (Freie Universität Berlin) "Le fortificazioni di Monte Adranone per... more
"Il territorio come spazio della memoria: mutamenti, continuità e innovazioni" Presiede Prof. A. Burgio, Università degli Studi di Palermo 10.00 -10.15 Francesca Spadaro (Freie Universität Berlin) "Le fortificazioni di Monte Adranone per una ricostruzione della memoria socioculturale" 10.15 -10.30 Leonardo Trincia (Università degli Studi di Roma -Tor Vergata) "I granai della Sicilia ellenistica. Memoria del paesaggio agricolo" 10.30 -10.45 Francesco Saverio Modica (Università degli Studi di Palermo) "Dalla carta alla terra: la riscoperta di un antico itinerario tra ville romane, neoclassiche ed edifici di culto" 10.45 -11.00 Alessia Tosches (Sapienza Università di Roma) "Il paesaggio restituito dai catasti medievali. La Valdichiana della Tavola delle Possessioni di Siena (1316-1320)" 11.00 -11.20 Dibattito 11.20 -11.35 Coffee break Ricostruzione della memoria sociale "La società: integrazione e partecipazione" Presiede Prof.ssa R. Cancila, Università degli Studi di Palermo 11.35 -11.50 Adriano Napoli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) "Su alcune note epigrafi d'età normanna già nella Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo a Palermo" 11.50 -12.05 Letizia Nuscis (Università degli Studi di Teramo) "Tra memoria e mercatura: donne, affetti e affari dal carteggio di Margherita Bandini" 12.05 -12.20 Elisa Turrisi (Università degli Studi di Palermo) "De capienda ex inimicis utilitate. I mercanti genovesi a Palermo nella seconda metà del XV secolo" 12.20 -12.35 Vittoria Pipino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) "Riallestimenti liturgici, cambiamenti di patronato e nuove intitolazioni. Il caso dell'altare maggiore della chiesa del Carmine di Siena tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna" 12.35 -12.50 Giuseppe A. Patisso (Alma Mater -Università di Bologna) Catene Adriatiche. Una tratta della schiavitù tra XVII e XVIII secolo. Rotte, mercanti e uomini fra le due sponde" 12.50 -13.20 Dibattito 13.30 -15.00 Lunch "Memoria come custodia dell'identità collettiva"
2025, A. Scarci- R. Graells i Fabregat- F. Longo (eds), Le armi votive in Sicilia,, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Siracusa, Palazzolo Acreide 12-13 novembre 2021pp.63-68
In this article we return to the weapons found in late 7th century BC contexts in the southwestern sanctuary of Naxos in Sicily, distinguishing between those contained in the thysiai and those placed near the peribolos walls C and K.... more
In this article we return to the weapons found in late 7th century BC contexts in the southwestern sanctuary of Naxos in
Sicily, distinguishing between those contained in the thysiai and those placed near the peribolos walls C and K. Unlike
the former, they retain their function, marking the boundary and impassability of the walls. More than the former, they
show the city’s not otherwise attested conflict with the indigenous population occupying the hinterland.
2025, Subterranea Croatica 21
Cave Rača, located on the southeastern part of Lastovo Island represents the most important prehistoric site on the island, with cultural layers dating from the 5th millennium BC, i.e. the late Neolithic up to the Early Iron Age and the... more
Cave Rača, located on the southeastern part of Lastovo Island represents the most important prehistoric site on the island, with cultural layers dating from the 5th millennium BC, i.e. the late Neolithic up to the Early Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman rule in South Dalmatian islands at the end of the 1st century BC. The first research was conducted in the mid-20th century, and since 2021, excavations in Rača have been conducted by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb with collaborators as part of the project “Finds Stories: Addressing Mobility through People and
Object Biographies”. The research aims to determine how and why island communities used this cave in different periods of prehistory.
2025
Le monde ancien occidental est une société d'images intégrées dans un langage complexe d'influences et de significations. Ces images, sous toutes leurs formes, occupent ainsi une place centrale au sein des sociétés anciennes et se... more
Le monde ancien occidental est une société d'images intégrées dans un langage complexe d'influences et de significations. Ces images, sous toutes leurs formes, occupent ainsi une place centrale au sein des sociétés anciennes et se placent, de facto, au coeur des recherches, anciennes et récentes, quelle que soit la spécialité (histoire de l'art, archéologie, histoire, lettres classiques, anthropologie, conservation, restauration, etc.). Ces dernières se fondent sur différentes approches telles que l'anthropologie, l'historicité, l'iconologie, la réception ou encore l'histoire des collections. Ces conceptions continuent à être (re)développées et croisées, montrant ainsi un constant renouvellement dans l'étude des images, à la fois objets d'étude et sources.
2025
Massimo Perna e Raimondo Zucca, Uno spillone in bronzo iscritto da Antas (Fluminimaggiore) e la più antica iscrizione in Cipriota "Classico"(?) .
2025
During the excavations of the Greek urban necropolis Volna 1 on the Taman Peninsula several bronze vessels and tools of very rare shapes were found in the burials of the 5th century BC. The objects under discussion are represented by... more
During the excavations of the Greek urban necropolis Volna 1 on the Taman Peninsula several bronze vessels and tools of very rare shapes were found in the burials of the 5th century BC. The objects under discussion are represented by forms that are rare not only for the North Pontic region. There is every reason to assume the Apulian origin of the patera from the burial no. 44, which so far have been rep-resented by seven specimens from the Rutigliano necropolis in Apulia and one – from Macedonia. No less rare is a bronze instrument for sampling wine, a clepsydra, now often called water / wine thief or Weinheber, originating from the same burial (13 such objects are known together with the find under discussion, including two of the unknown origin), represented by the finds both from Central (Lazio) and South (Campania, Calabria and Basilicata) Italy, Illyria (Apollonia) and Central Greece (Boeotia, Phocis) (all made of bronze), a silver piece from an aristocratic Thracian burial in the Plovdiv region and a fragmented bronze one – from the Ulyap kurgan necropolis in the Trans-Kuban region. Like the clepsydra, the bronze cheese grater from the burial no. 140-2 is an element of the Italic and Greek elite wine drinking culture, which confirms the high status of both the burials in which they were found and the necropolis as a whole. There is every reason to believe that the instruments under discussion, associated with the Greek culture of wine drinking, penetrated deep into the barbarian hinterland through the Greek centres of the Taman Peninsula, reaching the Trans-Kuban region.
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U članku se donosi pregled osnovnih faza urbanističkog razvoja grada Hvara, s posebnim osvrtom na položaj naselja u geomorfološkoj strukturi i sustavu komunikacija na Jadranu i na povijesne okolnosti koje su utjecale na uobličenje naselja... more
U članku se donosi pregled osnovnih faza urbanističkog razvoja grada Hvara, s posebnim osvrtom na položaj naselja u geomorfološkoj strukturi i sustavu komunikacija na Jadranu i na povijesne okolnosti koje su utjecale na uobličenje naselja i promjenu njegova položaja. Detaljnije se prikazuje organizacija povijesnoga grada i izgradnja grada izvan povijesne jezgre i njenih predgrađa.This paper gives a review of the main stages of Hvar\u27s urban development with special reference to its position within the geomorphological structure and communication system in the Adriatic region as well as to the historical circumstances which had an impact on the formation of the settlement and its position. A thorough analysis of the historic town layout is also given
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Autor prikazuje grad u reduciranoj nestvarnoj geografiji zapadnoga dijela otoka. Obris grada prema zapadu odreðuje dominikanski samostan, prema istoku istoène gradske zidine, prema sjeveru Tvrðava, prema jugu Pjaca. Gotièka katedrala,... more
Autor prikazuje grad u reduciranoj nestvarnoj geografiji zapadnoga dijela otoka. Obris grada prema zapadu odreðuje dominikanski samostan, prema istoku istoène gradske zidine, prema sjeveru Tvrðava, prema jugu Pjaca. Gotièka katedrala, arsenal, franjevaèki samostan i Búrak izostavljeni su. Grodá i Goja kva prikazane su koncentrirano na pojedine detalje, ali bez izrazita urbanog reda. Pjaca je prikazana kao slikovit `ivotni prostor (šetaèi, zabavljaèi, trgovci, laðe izvuèene na obalu i sl.). Zanimljiv je prikaz palme koji svjedoèi o fascinaciji florom. To je ujedno jedan od najranijih prikaza ovog stabla tzv. visoke palme (Phoenix dactiliphera) na našoj obali. Fig. Konrad von Grünemberg Pilgerreise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem: First known panorama of Hvar, 1486. The town is situated in an imaginary western area of the island. The town is surrounded by a Dominican monastery to the west, the town walls to the east, the Fortress to the north and Pjaca to the south. The Gothic cathedral, the arsenal, the Franciscan monastery and Bürak are omitted. Grodá and Goja kva feature some details although no particular urban order may be discerned. Pjaca is presented as a picturesque area (strollers, entertainers, traders, boats pulled out etc). The palm representation is one of the earliest ones on our coast. Gradski zavod za prostorno ureðenje HR -10000 Zagreb, Republike Austrije 18 Pregledni znanstveni èlanak UDK 711.4.03 (497.5 Hvar) Tehnièke znanosti / Arhitektura i urbanizam 2.01.02 -Urbanizam i prostorno planiranje Èlanak primljen / prihvaaeen: 27. 09. 2004. / 30. 03. 2005.
2025, Clio. Women, Gender, History, 56
The game of kottabos, which took place once the symposium was under way, is without doubt the most famous of all banquet games. This ludic activity, the scene of emulation between the drinkers, consisted of projec- ting with a skillful... more
The game of kottabos, which took place once the symposium was under way, is without doubt the most famous of all banquet games. This ludic activity, the scene of emulation between the drinkers, consisted of projec- ting with a skillful and practiced gesture the last drop of wine from one’s cup toward a predefined target. Wine, the mediator of sociability, is in this context both the modality and the instrument of the game, while the banquet tableware is diverted from its primary use. Based on a selection of South Italian red-figure pottery this article asks questions about the feminine agency associ- ated with an entertainment usually considered as masculine. Simultaneously animated target, stake of the throw, player or playful accessory, the female presence as staged in the metaphorical field of the image is polyvalent and multiform. With the help of visual games, the painters were playing with codes and established norms by offering a renewed vision, real or fantasized, around the culture of wine.
2025, Sanctuaires et paysages
Les articles de ces actes ont fait l'objet d'une expertise par les pair.es en double aveugle.
2024
In: Corinth and Syracuse, A Two-way Relationship, Siracusa, December 5-7, 2024, Museo Archeologico Regionale ‘Paolo Orsi’, auditorium, organized by G. Amara and I. Tzonou.
2024, In C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood and C. Papoulia (eds), Archaeology of the Ionian Sea. Landscapes, Seascapes and the Circulation of People, Goods and Ideas from the Palaeolithic to the End of the Bronze Age, 179−190. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.
2024
The Day After Tomorrow. Resilience and Recovery between/of City and Countryside in the Greek World
Basel, 21-23 January 2025
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The crisis and collapse of a society are crucial circumstances for the surviving communities, which must demonstrate a strong resilience to adapt quickly to new political and economic conditions. In the Greek world, the crisis and... more
The crisis and collapse of a society are crucial circumstances for the surviving communities, which must demonstrate a strong resilience to adapt quickly to new political and economic conditions.
In the Greek world, the crisis and disappearance of state, essentially the poleis, are due in most cases to exogenous causes (i.e., war phenomena). The practice of destroying a city, or urbicide, with the related material and psychological consequences, is rather rare in the Archaic period, but becomes gradually more common from the late fifth century B.C. onward, reaching its acme in the Hellenistic age.
The latest research perspectives agree in emphasizing how the data left by the sources regarding the destruction of a settlement and the tragic fate of its population are often exaggerated and tell a different story when compared with the one that can be reconstructed from the archaeological record. But even when documented, destructions rarely brought an end of a site, showing how ancient communities were endowed with a great capacity for recovery, being capable of overcoming the critical moment following the destructive event. Recovery does not mean, however, that the material and psychological violence left no traces on the community, as shown by the fact that in many cases a different society emerges from the post-destruction phase.
The destructive episode thus constitutes a turning point in the history of a community, and this is why this topic has attracted so much scholarly attention, focusing almost exclusively on the dynamics concerning the urban center, guiltily forgetting to involve data from the territory that are crucial to reconstruct a complete picture.
Traditionally, the destruction of a city is read as a direct and inevitable cause of the crisis that also affects the surrounding territory that becomes impoverished and depopulated. But how true is this perspective? Indeed, recent studies have pointed out that asty and chora often respond differently to breaks caused by destructive events, showing how the latter is more capable of adapting to new conditions and can provide the human and financial resources for the recovery of the former.
Building on these premises, the conference 'The Day after Tomorrow. Resilience and Recovery between City and Countryside in the Greek World' aims to offer new insights about the relationship between city and countryside in times of crisis, analyzing how the two elements dialogue and condition each other in a far more complex equation than the traditional bipolar center/periphery model.
2024, Monografie di Archeologia della Basilicata
Marina Giorgi, Ceramica a vernice nera (pp.186-205, tav. 113); Stefano Martinelli, Decorazione impressa eseguita a stampo (pp.206-212, tavv. 57-63); Marina Giorgi, Stefano Martinelli, Tipologia ceramica, vasellame in bronzo ed oggetti... more
2024, ArcheoFoss9-20 December 2024 at G.D’Annunzio University , Chieti
In the last decade, studies on the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean have increasingly focused on the economic systems and trade networks that historically interconnected this large maritime region. The study presented here... more
In the last decade, studies on the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean have increasingly focused on the economic systems and trade networks that historically interconnected this large maritime region. The study presented here focuses on the Strait of Otranto, a crucial corridor between the Salento Peninsula and southern Albania, active from the Bronze Age to the medieval period. Using GIS algorithms, such as Delaunay triangulation and buffer analysis, an attempt is made to identify a coastal settlement hierarchy underlying regional trade and cabotage routes. Moreover, the potential of Network Analysis, applied to historical texts and associations of archaeological finds, emphasizes the trade routes that connected the Salento to the rest of southern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean, particularly the Peloponnese and Crete. The analysis identifies main routes such as the ‘Strait of Cerigotto’ and the ‘Cretan way,’ which facilitated trade and cultural exchanges between the Ionian-Adriatic basin and the Aegean in the Hellenistic period, continuing until the Byzantine period, when the southern Salento emerged as a strategic node of vital and stable connections with Constantinople and other areas of the central-eastern Mediterranean.
While not revolutionary, the application of network analysis has the capacity to propose historiographical models or validate existing ones, while also offering more explicit and meaningful graphic visualizations.
2024, In: Herzog, Z. and Singer-Avitz, L. Beer-Sheba III. The Early Iron IIA Enclosed Settlement and the Late Iron IIA- Iron IIB Cities, Volumes I-III. (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University No. 33). Tel Aviv: 1305-1323.
Cross-cultural ethnographic studies show that spinning and weaving are very popular crafts and are 5-23). Since no looms were found in the Beer-sheba excavations and fabrics were rarely found, our information is derived primarily from the... more
Cross-cultural ethnographic studies show that spinning and weaving are very popular crafts and are 5-23). Since no looms were found in the Beer-sheba excavations and fabrics were rarely found, our information is derived primarily from the small objects used in the practice of these crafts. Only a small number of these objects are illustrated in this chapter. All unillustrated objects are presented in a list arranged according to strata and loci numbers. LOOM WEIGHTS Concentrations of loom weights in many of the domestic buildings in Tel Beer-sheba indicate: 1) the presence of looms, 2) that weaving was a domestic craft (for further discussion, see Chapter 35
2024, In situ
U ožujku 2023. obavljena je druga faza arheoloških iskopavanja na Lergovoj gradini, sjevernodalmatinskom liburnskom naselju s markantnim bedemom. Riječ je o sondi 3 koja je u gornjem dijelu sadržavala različite nalaze iz posljednjih... more
U ožujku 2023. obavljena je druga faza arheoloških iskopavanja na Lergovoj gradini, sjevernodalmatinskom liburnskom naselju s markantnim bedemom. Riječ je o sondi 3 koja je u gornjem dijelu sadržavala različite nalaze iz posljednjih nekoliko stoljeća prije Krista, poput ulomaka amfora i sjevernoafričkog novca. Na dnu sonde otkrivena je keramika iz srednjeg brončanog doba.
2024, ISCUM (a cura di) Tiziano Mannoni. Attualità e sviluppi di metodi e idee, 2 volumi, Sesto Fiorentino 2021, II, pp. 412-419.
Esempio applicativo di un approccio archeologico multiscalare, con analisi infra/extra/intersito per il sito di Montecorvino (FG) e il territorio dei Monti Dauni. Studio dell'organizzazione urbana (anche con metodo regressivo), utilizzo... more
Esempio applicativo di un approccio archeologico multiscalare, con analisi infra/extra/intersito per il sito di Montecorvino (FG) e il territorio dei Monti Dauni. Studio dell'organizzazione urbana (anche con metodo regressivo), utilizzo di modelli digitali del terreno, impostando un'analisi spaziale incentrata su visibilità singola o viewshed, per la definizione del sistema fra vari siti strategici
2024, Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia. Anthology of COST Action “CA 19131 – EuroWeb”.
One of the research areas of the EuroWeb project during the four years of the COST Action (November 2020 – October 2024) is the comparative study of textile and clothing terminologies in European languages across time. Inside the EuroWeb... more
2024
Giacimenti, circolazione, metallurgia monetale Tecniche di analisi per l'archeologia e la numismatica: prospettive interpretative e ricerche in corso Con il patrocinio dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Ufficio comunicazione e... more
Giacimenti, circolazione, metallurgia monetale Tecniche di analisi per l'archeologia e la numismatica: prospettive interpretative e ricerche in corso Con il patrocinio dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Ufficio comunicazione e segreteria organizzativa Roberta Antolini (INFN-LNGS) Fausto Chiarizia (INFN-LNGS) Iolanda Santina Pagano (UniNA-DSU) Andrea Pecorella (UniNA-DSU) Collaborazione alla segreteria organizzativa Martina Buontempo (INFN
2024, Frontières
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Ce document est la propriété de Frontière•s. Revue d'Archéologie, Histoire et Histoire de l'Art qui en autorise la diffusion selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons : Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Partage dans les même conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Les images ou tout autre matériel tiers figurant dans ce document sont inclus dans la même licence Creative Commons, sauf indication contraire explicitement mentionnée en légende du matériel en question. Si le matériel n'est pas inclus dans la licence Creative Commons de l'article et que l'utilisation que vous souhaitez en faire n'est pas autorisée par la réglementation ou dépasse l'utilisation autorisée, vous devrez obtenir l'autorisation directement auprès du détenteur du droit d'auteur. Vous êtes autorisé•e à : Partager-copier, distribuer et communiquer le document par tous moyens et sous tous formats Adapter-transformer et créer à partir du document Selon les conditions suivantes : Attribution-Vous devez créditer l'article, intégrer un lien vers la licence et indiquer si des modifications ont été effectuées au texte et aux images. Vous devez indiquer ces informations par tous les moyens raisonnables, sans toutefois suggérer que l'Auteur•rice vous soutient ou soutient la façon dont vous avez utilisé son article. Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Vous n'êtes pas autorisé•e à faire un usage commercial de ce document, tout ou partie du matériel le composant.
2024, Lithic Studies Society Conference abstract
The Early Neolithic in the Eastern Adriatic is associated with the Impressed Ware culture that dates to c. 6000-5400 BC. The part lithic industries played in the process of Neolithisation has only recently come into focus. There is ample... more
The Early Neolithic in the Eastern Adriatic is associated with the Impressed Ware culture that dates to c. 6000-5400 BC. The part lithic industries played in the process of Neolithisation has only recently come into focus. There is ample evidence of cultural uniformity of Dalmatian and Apulian Impressed Ware, i.e. the Eastern and the Western Adriatic coasts. It also seems that the Eastern Adriatic coast relied heavily on exogenous chert from the Gargano peninsula on the Western coast since the earliest Neolithic. This fact testifies to the socioeconomic relationship between them. However, it seems that the Istrian peninsula gravitated more towards Northern Italy and the exogenous deposits of chert located there and was not part of the Gargano chert distribution network. There are at least two Neolithic sites with abundant lithic assemblages-Kargadur and Vižula-which give us an idea of lithic production trends and distribution networks during this period. We will present the Neolithic sites and their lithic assemblages and discuss their part in the Neolithisation process of the Istrian peninsula.
2024, Atti e Memorie della Società Magne Grecia
Abstract · The hoard of Lizzano (ta) of 1951: Archive data · The hoard of Magna Graecia coins from Lizzano was discovered in 1951. It has been cited many times as having been discovered in 1950, but by consulting the archive data it was... more
Abstract · The hoard of Lizzano (ta) of 1951:
Archive data · The hoard of Magna Graecia coins
from Lizzano was discovered in 1951. It has been
cited many times as having been discovered in
1950, but by consulting the archive data it was
possible to correct this error. Not only, by reading
the communications preserved in the historical
archive of the former Archaeological Superintendence
of Taranto, it was ascertained that the nucleus
was originally composed of approximately 303
specimens, while currently only 44 are preserved,
of which 37 are reported in the archive documentation,
while another 7 are a possible subsequent
contribution. In almost all the contributions in
which this little treasure is mentioned, the date of
the possible concealment was unanimously set at
around the beginning of the second half of the 4th
century BC, while it is now hypothesized that it
may have been buried around the middle of the 3rd
century BC or a little further.
2024
Nella sua Storia naturale (VIII, 122), Plinio descrive il camaleonte come un animale inoffensivo, capace di starsene dritto sulle zampe, «sempre a bocca aperta», di resistere all’inverno andando in letargo «come le lucertole», di cambiare... more
2024, Bulletin des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Belgique
Cet article étudie un couvercle de céramique maya acquis par les Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles à la suite du legs de Marie-Jo Iweins d’Eeckhoutte en 2019. Cette pièce possède une surface noire et lustrée caractéristique... more
Cet article étudie un couvercle de céramique maya acquis par les Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles à la suite du legs de Marie-Jo Iweins d’Eeckhoutte en 2019. Cette pièce possède une surface noire et lustrée caractéristique de la production des Basses-Terres de la fin du classique ancien (400-600). Cette brillance a été obtenue grâce à l’application d’un engobe et sa couleur est due à l’atmosphère réductrice du four. L’oiseau représenté est un cormoran déployant ses ailes sur l’étendue concentrique du couvercle tandis que sa tête forme le bouton de la céramique comme s’il émergeait des flots avec une proie dans le bec à la suite d’une longue plongée. Cet oiseau aquatique figuré à de multiples reprises peut être assimilé par certaines de ses spécificités au dieu créateur, Itzamnaaj. Enfin, il devait être soutenu par quatre pécaris, animal associé au monde tellurique, à la fertilité ainsi qu’au renouveau
2024
Giacimenti, circolazione, metallurgia monetale Tecniche di analisi per l'archeologia e la numismatica: prospettive interpretative e ricerche in corso Con il patrocinio dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Ufficio comunicazione e... more
Giacimenti, circolazione, metallurgia monetale Tecniche di analisi per l'archeologia e la numismatica: prospettive interpretative e ricerche in corso Con il patrocinio dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Ufficio comunicazione e segreteria organizzativa Roberta Antolini (INFN-LNGS) Fausto Chiarizia (INFN-LNGS) Iolanda Santina Pagano (UniNA-DSU) Andrea Pecorella (UniNA-DSU) Collaborazione alla segreteria organizzativa Martina Buontempo (INFN
2024
Ricordo del più grande meridionalista che ha calpestato il suolo della Calabria, scalando, peraltro, le vette dell'Aspromonte: Umberto Zanotti Bianco a sessanta anni dalla morte (28 agosto 1963). "A 60 anni dalla morte di Umberto Zanotti... more
Ricordo del più grande meridionalista che ha calpestato il suolo della Calabria, scalando, peraltro, le vette dell'Aspromonte: Umberto Zanotti Bianco a sessanta anni dalla morte (28 agosto 1963). "A 60 anni dalla morte di Umberto Zanotti Bianco è possibile affermare, in verità, che è stato il più grande meridionalista, il più incisivo e il più produttivo, chiedendo e riscuotendo la cooperazione dei calabresi più illuminati. Egli non espresse facili giudizi preconcetti sui calabresi ma li amò e li aiutò ad emanciparsi dall'abbandono e dalle disattenzioni del mondo istituzionale se nulla chiedere". (AF)
2024, MARCIANDO CON ANNIBALE: L’ITINERARIO ITALIANO DELLE TRUPPE CARTAGINESI DAL TRASIMENO A CAPO COLONNA (Atti delle Giornate di Studio Roma, 24-25 gennaio 2023)
During the excavation of a large building referable to the Brettiian culture and datable between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC at Tiriolo (Catanzaro), in the locality of Gianmartino, 110 Punic silver coins and 175 bronze coins (mostly... more
During the excavation of a large building referable to the Brettiian culture and datable between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC at Tiriolo (Catanzaro), in the locality of Gianmartino, 110 Punic silver coins and 175 bronze coins (mostly Brettian) were recovered. The Punic coins and some groups of bronze ones were clearly grouped together, with an evident intent of hoarding. All of the coins were lost or hoarded shortly before a violent fire destroyed the building, an event almost certainly to be placed in the Hannibalic period, during the resistance by Hannibal and his Brettian allies against Rome (216-203 BC). Previous excavations in a neighbouring area had yielded the discovery of five bronze blank coins, still joined by the casting shanks, possibly documenting the existence of a mint in the area for the production of coins.
2024, EClás 164 (2023-2), pp. 127-148
This work aims to establish some fixed points of research on the theme of female competitive activity in the Greek world. First, an attempt was made to determine the specialties in which women were the winners, and to evaluate any... more
This work aims to establish some fixed points of research on the theme of female competitive activity in the Greek world. First, an attempt was made to determine the specialties in which women were the winners, and to evaluate any differences —of times, places and conditions— in their participation in the competitions. Already at an initial examination it was clear that almost all the athletes considered were inserted in a family context of considerable political and social importance, so much so that there were also cases of several women from the same family who participated in athletic competitions. Subsequently, the possibility for women, in the Greco-Roman age, to support a “competitive liturgy” was verified. These women were often accompanied by their husband or a family member, even if it was not excluded that unmarried women could fulfil those tasks alone. However, in cases where a man and a woman performed the same liturgy at the same time, the title of the woman was not purely honorary: the couple shared the financial burdens, if not actually for two separate liturgies.
2024
Reexamination of the slabs in the Insula Occidentalis leads to the conclusion that the fragments with recumbent figures (invv. 40655, 40644), traditionally thought to have belonged to the tympanum of a sacred extra-urban building,... more
Reexamination of the slabs in the Insula Occidentalis leads to the conclusion that the fragments with recumbent figures (invv. 40655, 40644), traditionally thought to have belonged to the tympanum of a sacred extra-urban building, actually come from elsewhere. According to critical literature, the decorative system of the roof would have included both the four-cornered slabs with the myth of Marsyas and Apollo and the ‘rectangular’ series with vegetable racemes and Erotes. Instead, the slab inv. 40644 is part of the fragment with a female figure seen from behind (inv. 40645). The present proposal is to reconstruct a semi-tympanum with two figures (Dionysus and Ariadne?). As for the slabs with Marsyas and Apollo, the last support for the idea that they could have been set in a sacred context falls: a domestic environment seems much more consonant with the subject matter. It is likely that the figure of the satyr Marsyas and his myth were chosen by members of the Pompeian nobility to represent their desire for a greater involvement in the political decisions made in Rome.
2024
From the northern promontory to the southern promontory of the "foot" of Italy over the last 1000 years the coastline has dramatically changed and hence ancient geographical texts are basically voided. Fourteen texts are analysed; a... more
From the northern promontory to the southern promontory of the "foot" of Italy over the last 1000 years the coastline has dramatically changed and hence ancient geographical texts are basically voided. Fourteen texts are analysed; a special point determined and two specific areas are shown to be factual. Seismic details are quantified by experts with surprises in it all.
2024, Chalkis in Aetolia.II. The Archaic Period
The first publication to appear of an Archaic settlement in Aetolia with stratified pottery and tools for textile production.
(The second half of the publication)
2024, Annali Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Cl. Lettere e Filosofia), s. III, XIX, pp. 471-501 e tavv. VI-XIV
2024, A. Mastrocinque, G. Piras, C. Smith (eds.), Forum, Strutture, funzioni e sviluppo degli impianti forensi in Italia (IV sec. a.C. - I sec. d.C.), Roma 2024, 253-264
Considerable urban growth, following the Roman conquest of Veii, and a reorganization of public spaces and buildings can be recognized at Falerii Veteres between the beginning of the 4th and the first half of the 3rd century BC. This... more
Considerable urban growth, following the Roman conquest of Veii, and a reorganization of public spaces and buildings can be recognized at Falerii Veteres between the beginning of the 4th and the first half of the 3rd century BC. This building intensity, especially concentrated in the Scasato area, probably led to some scholars identifying the forum of the Faliscan city in that area. However, if that wide urban sector indisputably houses public buildings, since at least the beginning of the Archaic period, its identification with the political, religious and administrative heart of the city is not at the moment fully demonstrable.
Utilizing the study case of Falerii Veteres, my paper aims to analyse the (im)possibility of recognizing in South Etruscan cities (in the period immediately preceding the Roman conquest) the organization of
public places that hosted the functions generally attributed to the forum.