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Residenze per l’élite enotria o templi greci nell’insediamento del Timpone della Motta (VIII-VII sec. a.C.) a Francavillla Marittima?

Author: P. Brocato

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The settlement of the Timpone della Motta (Cs-IT) represents one of the most important sites of the Oenotrian culture of the Ionian coast. The pre-colonial phase demonstrates a close contact with the Greek world which then intensified with the foundation of Sybaris and the progressive Hellenization. The research concerns three dwellings, identified in the excavations conducted by M. W. Stoop and M. Kleibrink on the top of the settlement, generally interpreted as temples. The architecture of the most ancient phases (8th-7th century BC) is examined in detail, providing new reconstructive elements also through comparisons with similar structures. Therefore a different interpretation of the stratigraphic and structural sequence and their functions is proposed.

Francavilla Marittima (CS): indagini archeologiche nell’abitato del Timpone della Motta (2017-2019)

Authors: P. Brocato, L. Altomare, M. Canonaco, C. Capparelli, B. Carroccio, G. Ferraro, G. Lucarelli, M. Perri, A.A. Zappani

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In 2017 the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the Università della Calabria started new archaeological investigations in the ancient settlement of the Timpone della Motta in Francavilla Marittima (CS). The research, which is still in progress, has the aim of extensively defining the organization of the site. Currently, there are interventions in two different areas of the ancient settlement (plateau I and II). This work analyses previous investigations in these areas and illustrates the preliminary findings of the new research. The excavations have found various housing structures, relating to wooden huts and stone buildings. The discoveries attest the frequentation from the Middle Bronze Age up to the 4th century B.C.

La valle del Lao-Mercure: un quadro archeologico alla luce delle nuove ricerche a S. Gada di Laino Borgo

Author: F. Mollo

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The paper describes the research carried out between 2018 and 2019 on the hill of S. Gada of Laino Borgo, in the centre of the Lao-Mercure River valley. It’s an important settlement (40 ha), developed between Archaic and Hellenistic ages. The excavation’s results presented us the presence of a large residential complex dated on Lucanian age, perhaps developed around a regular urban map, positioned on a pre-existing attendance of Archaic-Enotrian age, all from define. An updated territorial framework is also developed, trying to put in place all the settling presences from the Archaic to the late Roman phase. The territory is strategic for the links between the area of the Diano Valley and Lagonegrese and northern Calabria and the Sibaritide in every period, populated by Enotri (Serdaioi?), Lucanians and, then, in Roman times, also crossed by Roman Itineraria, with the likely presence of Nerulum’s settlement.