- Soprintendenza Pompei
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- Classical Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Landscape Archaeology, Pausanias, Greek Archaeology, and 15 moreArchaeology of Ritual and Magic, Colonialism, Migration, Settlement archaeology, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Archaeology of Colonialism, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Pompeii (Archaeology), Mediterranean archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Iron Age, Religion, Greek sanctuaries, and Graeco-Roman Mosaics and Wall Paintingsedit
- Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Napoli Federico II.
Direttore Generale Soprintendenza Pompei.edit
The Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii has recently undertaken new researches in the main sacred spaces of the site in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities and institutions as to investigate the ritual dynamics from... more
The Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii has recently undertaken new researches in the main sacred spaces of the site in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities and institutions as to investigate the ritual dynamics from the archaic period to the Roman age. In particolar, further investigations were carried out in the Foro Triangolare area and in the extra-urban sanctuary at Fondo Iozzino. In the former case new interpretations of the old excavations are shedding new light on the role of Athena and other divinities in specific moments of young women’s life, as the transition from the condition of parthenos to nymphe. In the sanctuary of Fondo Iozzino the discovery of bucchero kantharoi and cups with etruscan inscriptions provide new and more nuanced hints about the etruscan people living in the city during the archaic period.
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The sanctuaries of Athena and Apollo in Pompeii are attested as early as the 6 th century BC. But unlike in the Archaic period, when sacred spaces and rituals were used to sanction 'international' contacts, in the Sabellian period the... more
The sanctuaries of Athena and Apollo in Pompeii are attested as early as the 6 th century BC. But unlike in the Archaic period, when sacred spaces and rituals were used to sanction 'international' contacts, in the Sabellian period the sanctuaries became 'local' cult places frequented by people from the site who enhanced a sense of community through collective rituals. The long lifespan of the cult places is noteworthy, although there is a lacuna in the evidence between the second half of the 5 th and the first half of the 4 th century BC which would merit some further investigation. The question of continuity is crucial here. On the basis of a new research project by the Soprintendenza Pompei, this paper attempts to split up the history of the cult places and ritual activities in Pompeii in order to reconstruct the social context in which religious activities took place in each period under study. The main focus lies on the Republican or " Sabellian " period.
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In a study concerned with understanding the types of population and modes of contanct in the multiple ecosystems of Iron Age southern Italy, ranging from the Greek poleis of the coastal flood plains to the Appenine mountain regions of... more
In a study concerned with understanding the types of population and modes of contanct in the multiple ecosystems of Iron Age southern Italy, ranging from the Greek poleis of the coastal flood plains to the Appenine mountain regions of Calabria and Lucania, it is necessary to examine the contexts carefully, as each culture or cultural or social group and every region may react differently to contacts with other cultures. Particularly instructive in this respect is the picture that emerges from the Ionnian coast between Taras and Sybaris and its immediate hinterland, where it is possible to compare and differentiate realities that are not necessarily homogeneous or fully standardised.
This paper discusses three different contexts along the Ionian coast, namely L'Amastuola, Incoronata and Francavilla Marittima, where the traditional reconstruction of the settlement dynamics, as proposed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, saw the presence of the Greek as a disruptive element which shattered a static indigenous situation and that led first to the conquest and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants who lived around the immediate hinterland of the colonial settlements, and then resulted in full-blown inter-ethnic conflict. This perspective interpreted the clear traces of transformations between the eight and the seventh centuries in the indigenous settlements around the area later occupied by the Greek chorai as evidence of local communities succumbing to the impact of the Greeek arriva. In this paper, I will first discuss this traditional reconstruction, with particular attention to the inland regions of the Appennine mountains, before considering mobility and cultural contact in the Italic world and exploring the settlements and developments of indigenous communities between Iron Age I and II.
This paper discusses three different contexts along the Ionian coast, namely L'Amastuola, Incoronata and Francavilla Marittima, where the traditional reconstruction of the settlement dynamics, as proposed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, saw the presence of the Greek as a disruptive element which shattered a static indigenous situation and that led first to the conquest and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants who lived around the immediate hinterland of the colonial settlements, and then resulted in full-blown inter-ethnic conflict. This perspective interpreted the clear traces of transformations between the eight and the seventh centuries in the indigenous settlements around the area later occupied by the Greek chorai as evidence of local communities succumbing to the impact of the Greeek arriva. In this paper, I will first discuss this traditional reconstruction, with particular attention to the inland regions of the Appennine mountains, before considering mobility and cultural contact in the Italic world and exploring the settlements and developments of indigenous communities between Iron Age I and II.
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Interverranno: Mauro Fiorentino Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi della Basilicata Ferdinando Felice Mirizzi Direttore DICEM Salvatore Adduce Sindaco di Matera Antonio De Siena Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici... more
Interverranno:
Mauro Fiorentino Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Ferdinando Felice Mirizzi Direttore DICEM
Salvatore Adduce Sindaco di Matera
Antonio De Siena Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
Massimo Osanna Direttore della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici Le attività della Scuola di Specializzazione
Relazione sulle attività della Scuola nel 2012
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni Direttrice Museo Archeologico Thessaloniki
Prolusione inaugurale: L'agorà di Tessalonica: dallo scavo al
Museo.
Mauro Fiorentino Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Ferdinando Felice Mirizzi Direttore DICEM
Salvatore Adduce Sindaco di Matera
Antonio De Siena Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici della Basilicata
Massimo Osanna Direttore della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici Le attività della Scuola di Specializzazione
Relazione sulle attività della Scuola nel 2012
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni Direttrice Museo Archeologico Thessaloniki
Prolusione inaugurale: L'agorà di Tessalonica: dallo scavo al
Museo.