Carmelo Colelli
Dal 1 gennaio 2023. Direttore del Museo Nazionale della Siritide (Policoro, Mt) e del Parco Archeologi di Herakleia (D.R.M. Basilicata)
Già Funzionario Archeologo SABAP (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio)- Cosenza - Calabria Italy (2017 - 2022).
Since January, 1 2023. Director of National Museum of Siritide (Policoro, Matera) and of Archaeological site of Heraklea (D.R.M. Basilicata)
Officer Archaeologist for the Soprintendenza of (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio)- Cosenza - Calabria Italy (2017 - 2022).
2021- Co-responsible of the Survey archeaological project in Alessandria del Carretto.
On June 7th 2012 I defended my Phd Thesis (self funded) at Groningen University (Holland) regarding Impasto and gray ware pottery of Iron age from Francavilla Marittima (Northern Calabria, Italy).
I investigated the tradition and the evolution of the material culture between final Bronze age and Iron age and I tried to determine the changes in the local material culture during the second part of 8th century B.C. when Greek people arrived in Southern Italy.
Advisors: Prof. Peter Attema, Dr. Albert Njiboer (G.I.A.), Dr. Jan Kindberg Jacobsen (NY Carlsberg, Glyptotek).
2018-2020. Involved into archaeological researches in Bayrakli/Smyrna; Ege University, Izmir.
Advisor: Prof. Cumur Tanriver.
2005- 2017. Involved in the Italian Archaeological mission in Aiolian Cyme (Izmir,Turkey), where I'm studying, as a self funded researcher, the earliest phases known of the city (the earliest materials we found dates to middle of 8th century). I’m trying to determine the “weight of the tradition” in Cyme’s (and in Aiolian’s) material culture between the 8th - 7th century B.C. and also to understand cultural connections and economic contacts involving the City in this period.
Advisor: Prof. Antonio La Marca (University of Calabria).
Since 2005 -Involved in archeaeological research project in Francavilla Marittima (Cs) carried out by G.I.A. (2005-2010) and by Danish Institute at Rome (since 2014).
Since 2018 involved in the archeological reseach project in Smyrna (Turkey) carried out by Prof. Cumhur Tanriver Ege University (Izmir).
Già Funzionario Archeologo SABAP (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio)- Cosenza - Calabria Italy (2017 - 2022).
Since January, 1 2023. Director of National Museum of Siritide (Policoro, Matera) and of Archaeological site of Heraklea (D.R.M. Basilicata)
Officer Archaeologist for the Soprintendenza of (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio)- Cosenza - Calabria Italy (2017 - 2022).
2021- Co-responsible of the Survey archeaological project in Alessandria del Carretto.
On June 7th 2012 I defended my Phd Thesis (self funded) at Groningen University (Holland) regarding Impasto and gray ware pottery of Iron age from Francavilla Marittima (Northern Calabria, Italy).
I investigated the tradition and the evolution of the material culture between final Bronze age and Iron age and I tried to determine the changes in the local material culture during the second part of 8th century B.C. when Greek people arrived in Southern Italy.
Advisors: Prof. Peter Attema, Dr. Albert Njiboer (G.I.A.), Dr. Jan Kindberg Jacobsen (NY Carlsberg, Glyptotek).
2018-2020. Involved into archaeological researches in Bayrakli/Smyrna; Ege University, Izmir.
Advisor: Prof. Cumur Tanriver.
2005- 2017. Involved in the Italian Archaeological mission in Aiolian Cyme (Izmir,Turkey), where I'm studying, as a self funded researcher, the earliest phases known of the city (the earliest materials we found dates to middle of 8th century). I’m trying to determine the “weight of the tradition” in Cyme’s (and in Aiolian’s) material culture between the 8th - 7th century B.C. and also to understand cultural connections and economic contacts involving the City in this period.
Advisor: Prof. Antonio La Marca (University of Calabria).
Since 2005 -Involved in archeaeological research project in Francavilla Marittima (Cs) carried out by G.I.A. (2005-2010) and by Danish Institute at Rome (since 2014).
Since 2018 involved in the archeological reseach project in Smyrna (Turkey) carried out by Prof. Cumhur Tanriver Ege University (Izmir).
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The comparison between the collected data and those on coeval finds available from the literature allowed us to subdivide the Muricelle glass into three compositional groups: (1) Mn_a, classified as Roman-Mn glasses; (2) Mn_b, which can be compared to the Mn-unintentionally coloured Roman glasses; and (3) Sb + Mn, obtained by the recycling of the Sb and Mn Roman-type glasses. These groups were different not only with respect to the contents and the types of decolourants but also for soda, lime, and aluminium contents, highlighting the use of different raw Materials in the primary glass production and also indicating the procedures used in secondary glass production. The compositional characteristics suggested the Levant region as the primary glass source for the Mn_a and Mn_b groups. On the other hand, the Sb + Mn group was obtained through recycling, involving the melting and mixing of two types of primary glass (Sb-decolourised and Mn-decolourised) of Egyptian and Levantine origins, respectively
and written sources concerning the
site of Timpa del Castello (Francavilla Marittima),
a rocky spur dominating Sybaris’ plain.
Surveys in the 1980s by the University of Rome
La Sapienza and in the 2000s by the University
of Groningen have dated the site’s frequentation
to the period from the advanced Middle Bronze
Age to the Early Iron Age. The latter also demonstrated
a Late Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age phase
of frequentation. Recent archaeological research
carried out by the Danish Institute in Rome and
the Soprintendenza ABAP of Cosenza confirms
the Early Bronze Age horizon. It further adds new
insights on the initial Middle Bronze Age phase –
rare in the rest of the region – and shows continuous
frequentation into the Greek period. The site
was probably re-settled during Medieval period;
abundant pottery fragments, dating to the 14th
century and 15th century AD, corroborate available
archive data and written sources. The hill’s
caves were inhabited until the second half of 20th
century.
of Pollino Orientale (the north-eastern area of the
Pollino Massif). Through time, its territory has
been on the border between chorai, regiones, dioceses
and regions. Like many of the inland areas
in Calabria and Basilicata, the Alessandria landscape
has never been involved in systematic archaeological
research. Therefore, evidence of the
more ancient past is known only from sporadic
finds like the ones discovered in Serra Trearie and
Timpone dei Morti. The site of Serra Trearie probably
refers to a small farm settled with continuity
from the Roman to the Medieval period; the area
of Timpone dei Morti, on the other hand, indicates
the presence of a necropolis as the toponym
suggests (“Morti” meaning “deads” in Italian) and
which has been confirmed by the archaeological
material. The necropolis was used between the
end of the Republican and the beginning of the
Roman Imperial period.
The two sites, situated very close to each other,
are on a mountain ridge separating the drainage
basin between Fiume Ferro and Torrente
Saraceno. This ridge constitutes a natural penetration
way connecting the vast coastal stretch
between the two rivers with the mountainous
hinterland. The path was probably frequented
for the supply of raw materials (timber, pitch
and maybe metals) and by transhumant breeders.
The archaeological record known from Alessandria
is limited, but the data is significant in
the broader picture, considering the surrounding
territories between the Ionian coast and the
Pollino Massif on both the Calabrian and the
Lucanian side.
Unpublished notes by Vincenzo Laviola, a local physician fond of archaeology, report that this object was found at
Agliastroso, a necropolis dated between the Final Bronze Age and the Iron Age. A strict parallel for this pendant can be
established with late bronze Age specimens coming from Lipari and from a Final Bronze Age hoard found at Coste del
Marano (Lazio, Central Italy) and from Mycenae. Specific typological details characterizing these objects call to mind
Late Bronze Age pendants found in Central Italy and an anthropomorphic figurine from Torano (Calabria) and another
one from Paternò (Sicily)
(http://www.thiasos.eu/piccoli-dischi-in-ceramica-o-pietra-da-kyme-eolica-sprazzi-di-vita-quotidiana-nel-mondo-greco-in-eta-geometrica-e-arcaica/)
The mainly unpublished documents reveal different archaeological excavations carried out in the region between late 18th and first half of 19th century. Archive data are here presented in the light of recent archaeological research in order enhance our knowledge of the history of North Calabria.
80’s. The structures found suggests the excavated area should be referred to the pars fructuaria of a Roman villa. The very high percentage of amphoras and coarse wares confirms this impression.
The site has been settled between the second half of 1st century B.C. and second half of 1st century A.D. A preliminary study of fine pottery and amphoras suggests in this period San Lucido, the ancient Clampetia, was involved in regional and interregional trade.
Keywords · Romani, Villae, Augusto, Clampetia, Commerce.
(https://bollettinodiarcheologiaonline.beniculturali.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2018_4_COLELLI.pdf)
Il presente volume, naturale compimento del primo incontro tenutosi a San Lorenzo Bellizzi il 16 e 17
aprile 2016, intende costituire il punto di partenza per iniziare a concepire l’area montuosa del Pollino
nella sua interezza. Il libro è stato possibile grazie al coinvolgimento e all’incontro dei principali gruppi
di ricerca che, nel corso degli ultimi decenni, hanno concorso a scrivere l’archeologia e la storia più antica
di questo territorio. Attraverso i diversi contributi qui proposti ci si prefigge, per la prima volta, di
orientare la ricerca archeologica verso una percezione diversa del Massiccio del Pollino che non deve e
non può costituire una barriera ma deve tornare a rivestire la funzione avuta per millenni, quella di punto
di passaggio e crocevia di culture, ponte naturale e non barriera, fra la Calabria e la Basilicata, fra il Mar
Ionio e il Tirreno.
*
The proceedings present the outcome of the 1st San Lorenzo Bellizzi Meeting held between the 16th and 17th of
April 2016. The conference is intended to address new scientific visions and approaches to the Pollino Mountains
in all their complexity. The present volume rests on the results accumulated by several research teams,
which for decades have been engaged in the exploration of the archaeology and history of the area. The presented
articles represent the first combined archaeological approach to the Pollino area. In antiquity, the impressive
Pollino Mountains did not pose a barrier to human mobility. On the contrary, they were a point of passage
and a cultural crossroad for millenniums, being a natural bridge and not a border, thus furnishing connections
between Calabria and Basilicata and between the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian sea.
The comparison between the collected data and those on coeval finds available from the literature allowed us to subdivide the Muricelle glass into three compositional groups: (1) Mn_a, classified as Roman-Mn glasses; (2) Mn_b, which can be compared to the Mn-unintentionally coloured Roman glasses; and (3) Sb + Mn, obtained by the recycling of the Sb and Mn Roman-type glasses. These groups were different not only with respect to the contents and the types of decolourants but also for soda, lime, and aluminium contents, highlighting the use of different raw Materials in the primary glass production and also indicating the procedures used in secondary glass production. The compositional characteristics suggested the Levant region as the primary glass source for the Mn_a and Mn_b groups. On the other hand, the Sb + Mn group was obtained through recycling, involving the melting and mixing of two types of primary glass (Sb-decolourised and Mn-decolourised) of Egyptian and Levantine origins, respectively
and written sources concerning the
site of Timpa del Castello (Francavilla Marittima),
a rocky spur dominating Sybaris’ plain.
Surveys in the 1980s by the University of Rome
La Sapienza and in the 2000s by the University
of Groningen have dated the site’s frequentation
to the period from the advanced Middle Bronze
Age to the Early Iron Age. The latter also demonstrated
a Late Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age phase
of frequentation. Recent archaeological research
carried out by the Danish Institute in Rome and
the Soprintendenza ABAP of Cosenza confirms
the Early Bronze Age horizon. It further adds new
insights on the initial Middle Bronze Age phase –
rare in the rest of the region – and shows continuous
frequentation into the Greek period. The site
was probably re-settled during Medieval period;
abundant pottery fragments, dating to the 14th
century and 15th century AD, corroborate available
archive data and written sources. The hill’s
caves were inhabited until the second half of 20th
century.
of Pollino Orientale (the north-eastern area of the
Pollino Massif). Through time, its territory has
been on the border between chorai, regiones, dioceses
and regions. Like many of the inland areas
in Calabria and Basilicata, the Alessandria landscape
has never been involved in systematic archaeological
research. Therefore, evidence of the
more ancient past is known only from sporadic
finds like the ones discovered in Serra Trearie and
Timpone dei Morti. The site of Serra Trearie probably
refers to a small farm settled with continuity
from the Roman to the Medieval period; the area
of Timpone dei Morti, on the other hand, indicates
the presence of a necropolis as the toponym
suggests (“Morti” meaning “deads” in Italian) and
which has been confirmed by the archaeological
material. The necropolis was used between the
end of the Republican and the beginning of the
Roman Imperial period.
The two sites, situated very close to each other,
are on a mountain ridge separating the drainage
basin between Fiume Ferro and Torrente
Saraceno. This ridge constitutes a natural penetration
way connecting the vast coastal stretch
between the two rivers with the mountainous
hinterland. The path was probably frequented
for the supply of raw materials (timber, pitch
and maybe metals) and by transhumant breeders.
The archaeological record known from Alessandria
is limited, but the data is significant in
the broader picture, considering the surrounding
territories between the Ionian coast and the
Pollino Massif on both the Calabrian and the
Lucanian side.
Unpublished notes by Vincenzo Laviola, a local physician fond of archaeology, report that this object was found at
Agliastroso, a necropolis dated between the Final Bronze Age and the Iron Age. A strict parallel for this pendant can be
established with late bronze Age specimens coming from Lipari and from a Final Bronze Age hoard found at Coste del
Marano (Lazio, Central Italy) and from Mycenae. Specific typological details characterizing these objects call to mind
Late Bronze Age pendants found in Central Italy and an anthropomorphic figurine from Torano (Calabria) and another
one from Paternò (Sicily)
(http://www.thiasos.eu/piccoli-dischi-in-ceramica-o-pietra-da-kyme-eolica-sprazzi-di-vita-quotidiana-nel-mondo-greco-in-eta-geometrica-e-arcaica/)
The mainly unpublished documents reveal different archaeological excavations carried out in the region between late 18th and first half of 19th century. Archive data are here presented in the light of recent archaeological research in order enhance our knowledge of the history of North Calabria.
80’s. The structures found suggests the excavated area should be referred to the pars fructuaria of a Roman villa. The very high percentage of amphoras and coarse wares confirms this impression.
The site has been settled between the second half of 1st century B.C. and second half of 1st century A.D. A preliminary study of fine pottery and amphoras suggests in this period San Lucido, the ancient Clampetia, was involved in regional and interregional trade.
Keywords · Romani, Villae, Augusto, Clampetia, Commerce.
(https://bollettinodiarcheologiaonline.beniculturali.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2018_4_COLELLI.pdf)
Il presente volume, naturale compimento del primo incontro tenutosi a San Lorenzo Bellizzi il 16 e 17
aprile 2016, intende costituire il punto di partenza per iniziare a concepire l’area montuosa del Pollino
nella sua interezza. Il libro è stato possibile grazie al coinvolgimento e all’incontro dei principali gruppi
di ricerca che, nel corso degli ultimi decenni, hanno concorso a scrivere l’archeologia e la storia più antica
di questo territorio. Attraverso i diversi contributi qui proposti ci si prefigge, per la prima volta, di
orientare la ricerca archeologica verso una percezione diversa del Massiccio del Pollino che non deve e
non può costituire una barriera ma deve tornare a rivestire la funzione avuta per millenni, quella di punto
di passaggio e crocevia di culture, ponte naturale e non barriera, fra la Calabria e la Basilicata, fra il Mar
Ionio e il Tirreno.
*
The proceedings present the outcome of the 1st San Lorenzo Bellizzi Meeting held between the 16th and 17th of
April 2016. The conference is intended to address new scientific visions and approaches to the Pollino Mountains
in all their complexity. The present volume rests on the results accumulated by several research teams,
which for decades have been engaged in the exploration of the archaeology and history of the area. The presented
articles represent the first combined archaeological approach to the Pollino area. In antiquity, the impressive
Pollino Mountains did not pose a barrier to human mobility. On the contrary, they were a point of passage
and a cultural crossroad for millenniums, being a natural bridge and not a border, thus furnishing connections
between Calabria and Basilicata and between the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian sea.
archaeologists, the same polis continues, still today, to fatally attract Italians. Since 1981 Italian scholars returned to investigate Cyme at the beginning in collaboration with the Museum of Smyrna, then with an Italian direction (MAIKE). The research conducted by Sebastiana Lagona (Catania University), from 1982 to 2007, was continued by her student Antonio La Marca (Calabria University), from 2008 to 2016.
The present work is part of the Italian project in Cyme, as the result of a more than ten-years on site activity of the writer started in 2006. This volume is dedicated to the most ancient phases of the City, with particularly regarding the period between 750 and 650 ca. BC, a century between the so-called “dark age” and the Greek Archaic period. This phase is fundamental for the birth and structure of ancient Greek society. It was characterized by deep and quick economic and social changes; in one hundred years the idea of polis itself got its shape and came to life through commercial trades and cultural connections, all around Mediterranean world.
In less than one century the known world spread off but, at the same time, the geographical and cultural distances are compressed: for Homer the West was still undefined, crowded by monsters and sirens. After only a few decades instead, Archilochus describes the lands amphì Sirios roas as a well known place, as well as beautiful, desirable, lovable.
Cyme is involved in the whole dynamics that led to an epochal change for Western culture in a few generations; thanks to its position, the Asia Minor port city become a trade centre between inland Anatolia and the Mediterranean, probably playing a role between different and distant political entities. The involvement of Cyme in the foundation of apoikiai in distant areas - such as the nearby Smyrna or the far away Cuma in Italy - are clear markers in this direction. The cultural vitality of Cyme had to correspond to an economic vitality: it
is probably not a coincidence that the first two names of Greek literature, Homer and Hesiod, so important for the Hellenic identity itself, are somehow connected to Cyme already by ancient writers.
The City had a very good position; probably since its foundation it was healthy and prosperous. According with Strabo, the most important Geographer of Roman empire, Cyme was “the largest and most noble of the Aeolian cities”. However, the greatness of the City in Greek and Roman period is the bigger obstacle for knowing the earlier history of the site. As many other Greek poleis, Cyme grew up and developed on itself over the centuries, hiding its origins.
Large stone buildings decorated with marble, rich mosaic floors or simpler structures, built especially during the Hellenistic age and in the Late Antiquity, obliterated the Geometric most ephemeral traces, making them difficult for the archaeologist to identify, complicated to investigate. The Nemrut Tepe subsoil has been a jealous guardian of Cyme’s earlier history over the centuries, revealing its secrets sparingly. Only small trenches reached the deepest levels of the city, allowing archaeologists
to observe the oldest and most hidden phases of life in the city. New and important data to know earlier phases of Cyme are known from the recent trenches carried out in the coastal plain and here presented.
A big amount of Geometric pottery and a small portion of a wall came to the light in two trenches very close to each other and situated within the heart of Greco-Roman Cyme. The stratigraphy shows that this area has been settled -perhaps ninterruptedly- between the Proto Geometric period and the beginning of the Archaic age. The best known phases can be dated between middle 8th and middle 7th century BC. The large amount of local and imported pottery found in the excavations shows Cyme was active and rich in this period; specialized pottery productions were made and used; they are often associated with vessels coming from abroad.
The ancient writers’ fragments and, above all, the pottery fragments, show a snapshot of Cyme in a very important moment of its history, corresponding roughly to the lifespan of the poet Hesiod. The poet probably never visited his father’s city but his witness is important to know Cyme in a period in which the polis was changing and opening itself to the outside world like never before. The hints of literary sources are precious, but rare and they still offer an unclear image of the most ancient history of
Cyme; archaeological data allow us to better define it through material culture analysis. The excavations carried out in the central area of the city that are presented here can offer a strong contribution in understanding Cyme’s earlier material culture, economy and history and, at the same time, they ask new questions to which only new researches could provide adequate answers.
The proceedings present the outcome of the 1st San Lorenzo Bellizzi Meeting held between the 16th and 17th of
April 2016. The conference is intended to address new scientific visions and approaches to the Pollino Mountains
in all their complexity. The present volume rests on the results accumulated by several research teams,
which for decades have been engaged in the exploration of the archaeology and history of the area. The presented
articles represent the first combined archaeological approach to the Pollino area. In antiquity, the impressive
Pollino Mountains did not pose a barrier to human mobility. On the contrary, they were a point of passage
and a cultural crossroad for millenniums, being a natural bridge and not a border, thus furnishing connections
between Calabria and Basilicata and between the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian sea.
***
Il presente volume, naturale compimento del primo incontro tenutosi a San Lorenzo Bellizzi il 16 e 17
aprile 2016, intende costituire il punto di partenza per iniziare a concepire l’area montuosa del Pollino
nella sua interezza. Il libro è stato possibile grazie al coinvolgimento e all’incontro dei principali gruppi
di ricerca che, nel corso degli ultimi decenni, hanno concorso a scrivere l’archeologia e la storia più antica
di questo territorio. Attraverso i diversi contributi qui proposti ci si prefigge, per la prima volta, di
orientare la ricerca archeologica verso una percezione diversa del Massiccio del Pollino che non deve e
non può costituire una barriera ma deve tornare a rivestire la funzione avuta per millenni, quella di punto
di passaggio e crocevia di culture, ponte naturale e non barriera, fra la Calabria e la Basilicata, fra il Mar
Ionio e il Tirreno.
Le fonti antiche raccontano che Epeo, costruttore del cavallo di Troia, fondò, in Italia meridionale, Lagaria, un centro che divenne sede di un importante culto di Atena. In età romana Lagaria era già decaduta, tanto che nella tarda antichità probabilmente se ne ignorava l’esatta ubicazione. Dopo lunghi secoli di apparente oblio, dal Rinascimento si è ridestato l’interesse verso questa mitica città: numerosi fra i maggiori esponenti della cultura italiana ed europea si sono cimentati nell’ardua impresa di capire dove essa sorgesse. Nel presente volume si propone,
con rigoroso metodo scientifico, una dettagliata analisi di tutte le informazioni di cui oggi si dispone su Lagaria al fine di ricostruirne la storia, la topografia e i culti e proporre, infine, una localizzazione.
Lagaria. Myth, history and archaeology.
Ancient writers revealed that Epaios, the builder of the Trojan horse, founded Lagaria, in Southern Italy. An important sanctuary dedicated to Athena later developed at the site. Lagaria declined during the Roman period and it is likely that knowledge of the exact position of the city was lost during late antiquity. After centuries of oblivion, interest for the mythical city remerged during the Renaissance and continues until today. Several Italian and European scholars have since tried to establish the locality where Lagaria once lay. The current volume offers a
scientific analysis of all available informations regarding the city in the attempt to reconstruct Lagarias history, topography, cults and original setting.
publication of archaeological material from the
excavations conducted by the Groningen Institute of
Archaeology on the Timpone della Motta in the years
1991-2004. This volume addresses the Iron Age
impasto pottery from the site through the establishment
of a typology of the impasto ware. The impasto pottery
is compared with other Iron Age pottery productions in
the Sibaritide in order to differentiate typological and
technological features as well as variations in the
cultural reception of the different pottery classes.
Questo volume costituisce la seconda pubblicazione
sistematica inerente i materiali archeologici rinvenuti
nel corso degli scavi, condotti dal Groningen Institute
of Archaeology, sul Timpone della Motta negli anni
compresi fra il 1991 e il 2004. In questo lavoro si
presenta lo studio della ceramica d’impasto dell’età
del Ferro: mediante la realizzazione di una tipologia e
la comparazione con altre produzioni ceramiche coeve
della Sibaritide, si è cercato di indagare gli aspetti
tipologici e tecnologici, così come le variazioni legate
alla ricezione di modelli culturali di diverse classi
ceramiche.
tecniche costruttive, vulnerabilità sismica, riparazioni
e rinforzi al tempo dell’eruzione del 79 d.C.,
Aracne editrice, Roma 2019, pp. 261 by NICOLA RUGGIERI
Dal Pollino all’Orsomarso. Ricerche archeologiche tra Ionio e Tirreno
Pubblicato il 26 giugno 2019
Giornate internazionali di archeologia, 2
San Lorenzo Bellizzi, Sala conferenze del Centro Polifunzionale (Rione Sgrotto) 4-6 ottobre 2019
“Dal Pollino all’Orsomarso” costituisce la seconda tappa di una manifestazione incentrata sulla storia e l’archeologia di un territorio che oggi, in larga parte, coincide con l’area protetta del Parco Nazionale del Pollino. Già nell’aprile del 2016, a San Lorenzo Bellizzi, era stato organizzato il convegno “Il Pollino. Barriera naturale e crocevia di culture”, un evento che aveva attratto studiosi e ricercatori di varia formazione, appartenenti a diversi enti universitari, nazionali e stranieri. Sulla scorta di questo primo appuntamento, cui è seguita la pubblicazione di un interessante volume degli atti, nasce ora “Dal Pollino all’Orsomarso. Ricerche archeologiche tra Ionio e Tirreno”, che amplia notevolmente l’area oggetto di studio e tende, ancora una volta, a favorire la comunicazione di novità e lo scambio di dati e informazioni tra i ricercatori attivi sul territorio.
Le Giornate internazionali di archeologia “Dal Pollino all’Orsomarso. Ricerche archeologiche tra Ionio e Tirreno” si terranno a San Lorenzo Bellizzi, nella splendida cornice naturale dell’alta valle del torrente Raganello, dal 4 al 6 ottobre 2019. Esse saranno articolate in una quadruplice sessione, ciascuna moderata da un diverso curatore:
Ricostruzione dell’uso tecnologico, economico ed alimentare del paesaggio (Gloria Mittica)
Archeologia del mondo sotterraneo (Felice Larocca)
Materiali e contesti. Dai frammenti alla storia (Carmelo Colelli)
Esplorazione del territorio e nuove scoperte (Antonio Larocca)
Sono previste 22 comunicazioni orali che potranno essere illustrate dai rispettivi Autori entro un tempo massimo di 20 minuti ciascuna con l’ausilio di una presentazione in PowerPoint. Per la sessione “Esplorazione del territorio e nuove scoperte” è contemplata esclusivamente la presentazione di poster. Le comunicazioni e i poster saranno soggetti ad un momento di discussione.
Il programma della manifestazione sarà così articolato:
venerdì 4 ottobre 2019: apertura dei lavori e presentazione del primo lotto di contributi;
sabato 5 ottobre 2019: prosecuzione dei lavori e presentazione del secondo lotto di contributi;
domenica 6 ottobre 2019: escursione guidata nei siti archeologici della Pietra Sant’Angelo di San Lorenzo Bellizzi.
Per inviare una proposta di contributo, scaricare il modulo, dattiloscriverlo con chiarezza in ogni sua parte ed inviarlo, improrogabilmente entro il 10 agosto 2019, a: [email protected] (fare riferimento a questa stessa mail anche per richiedere informazioni o maggiori dettagli su qualsivoglia aspetto del convegno.)
La Segreteria del convegno comunicherà l’avvenuta accettazione o meno della proposta entro il 31 agosto 2019.
Durante l’VIII secolo a.C. nella resa delle figure antropomorfe coesistono diversi linguaggi figurativi non soltanto in aree geografiche molto prossime fra loro, ma, a volte, anche nello stesso sito.
Diverse tradizioni utilizzano linguaggi stilistici completamente diversi: riproduzioni ancora indefinite, schematiche e simboliche, frutto di lunghe tradizioni, vengono affiancate prima, soppiantate poi, da raffigurazioni nelle quali iniziano a comparire dettagli anatomici e particolari che rimandano chiaramente a modelli del geometrico greco.
In questo breve intervento l'attenzione sarà posta soprattutto sulle evidenze direttamente legate alla sfera funeraria.
Partendo da un esame dei contesti e dei materiali di Cyme di VIII e VII secolo a.C. l’attenzione sarà posta sulle influenze che la cultura materiale e, di conseguenza la città, ricevette dall’esterno. Alla luce dei dati di cui dispone, il dato materiale mostra intensi contatti con la vicina Ionia (a Sud) e con la Troade (a Nord); non mancano materiali che, sebbene in assenza di analisi archeometriche, indicano influenze (se on dirette importazioni) da altre aree del mondo Greco orientale e dall’Anatolia interna. Particolarmente interessanti per le implicazioni storiche che presuppongono, sono i materiali euboici o di traduzione euboica.
Il focus sarà prevalentemente sui materiali inediti provenienti dagli scavi effettuati nell’area centrale della città, ma non verrà trascurato un riesame dei materiali degli altri contesti coevi editi.
Nel presente contributo si intende mostrare ed esaminare le stratigrafie, le strutture, le necropoli e i materiali più antichi rinvenuti a Kyme e nel suo territorio, per cercare di comprendere meglio queste fasi della storia della città alla luce dei dati già editi e di documentazione inedita, frutto di scavi effettuati negli ultimi anni. Punto di partenza imprescindibile sarà l’esame di dettaglio della cultura materiale (rappresentato prevalentemente da manufatti ceramici) coadiuvato da un costante riferimento alle fonti letterarie legate alla fondazione e alla storia più antica della città.
English abstract
In this talk I'll try to sort the archaeological data we have from Aiolian Kyme and from the surrounding necropolis in the period between the so called "Dark age" and the geomeric periode on the light of old ad new data. This period is not very well known in the city but now, after years of escavations carried out by the "Missione Archeologica Italiana a Kyme Eolica" , new information are coming up."
examples of this bronze object in specific areas among the Ionian coast (Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily). Current evidence shows chalcophones were found only in funeral contexts and always in female graves.
This dissertation gives a general overview of the object from both the archaeological and musicological perspectives. First of all, we will try to understand how these instruments were played. Secondly, the different types of shapes will be analysed in order to understand if various morphologies depend on a geographical distribution and/or on a chronological evolution.
Outside of Italy, chalcophones are well known from the phoenician contexts. This evidence connects this instrument to the network of long distance exchanges between East and West in Mediterranean Iron age."
Museo Nazionale di Reggio Calabria
Con prefazione di P. Brocato; premessa di M. Paoletti
The study itself was carried out between 2005 and 2011 as part of the Francavilla publication project directed by Jan Kindberg Jacobsen and Søren Handberg and financed by the Carlsberg and Ny Carlsberg Foundations (Denmark). In the near future the study on the
impasto pottery from the acropolis will appear as a monograph by the current author and Jan Kindberg Jacobsen in the Bibliotheca Archaeologica published by Edipuglia, Bari.
By the end of the 9th century BC, Timpone della Motta was turning into an important indigenous settlement, the size and importance of which increased significantly in the course of the first half of the 8th century BC. The importance of the site is reflected in the construction of large monumental hut structures with a seemingly ritual function on the
summit of the Timpone and in a rapidly expanding necropolis in the nearby area of Macchiabate. Both the finds from the summit (Area Chiesetta) and necropolis give detailed insights into the transformations of indigenous Oinotrian material culture, a gradual process of change towards more Greek oriented productions that started in the early 8th century BC under the influence of both internal and external impulses and which continued until the second quarter of the 7th century BC when a large part of indigenous material characteristics had disappeared. The recent excavations and pottery studies have revealed that, most likely
already before the middle of the 8th century BC, an area of pottery production was located in the ‘Area Rovitti’ on the southern slope of the Timpone hill. So far, but few shards from the summit or the Area Rovitti earlier than the 8th century BC were identified.
The hypothetical presence of a pottery workshop in Francavilla was recently confirmed by archaeometrical analysis undertaken by the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra of the University of Calabria. The analyses demonstrated that the clay used for the impasto vessels
originates from a small outcrop of a few hundred meters to the east of Timpone della Motta in a location called Pietra Catania. Clay used for the production of fine ware was extracted close to present day Lauropoli at a distance of ca. 3 kilometres to the south of the ‘Area Rovitti’.
Only one of the impasto samples analysed for this dissertation appeared to be an import.The majority of the ceramics included in this study stems from excavations carried out on the summit of the Timpone della Motta, but also pottery from the trench in the Area Rovitti
has been included. All the investigated material is presented in a catalogue with a standardised description and a drawing of every item including all the impasto and grey ware found
excavations campaigns of 2009 and 2010 in the Area Rovitti.
Due to the significant amounts of impasto potsherds found in the Area Chiesetta on the summit only vessels from undisturbed contexts are included in the catalogue. These comprise both complete pots and fragments if belonging to particular shapes. Published material from
the Macchiabate necropolis and from the lower settlement plateaux is taken into consideration, but has been excluded from the catalogue.
The ceramics are organized by shapes and shapes are divided by types; decorations are listed in a separate part of the catalogue. References to comparanda in Calabria and Southern Italy serve to provide the general framework of the corpus and to point out geographical distributions and chronological developments. Particular attention has been paid to the study of the tradition of production from a cultural and a technological point of view.
In Francavilla, like in other areas of Southern Italy (Apulia, Basilicata and northern Central Calabria), the Impasto group exhibits two different productions: the first is ‘brown or coarse impasto’ made of coarse clay (unpurified and rich in inclusions). Vessels of this production often have unpolished surfaces. The second is a ‘black or fine impasto’, which is
produced with a semi-purified clay and has smooth surfaces.
Decoration is minimal with the exception of decorative grips and applications. The amount of fine impasto is low and is only used for shapes such as scodelle (bowls) with inturned rim and vasi biconici (biconical jars). Generally, pots are handmade but a few wheel-made vessels were observed. Technical features, shape and morphology of fine impasto vessels suggest a relation with the impasto of
the Villanovan culture. This impasto tradition follows the main geographical distribution of matt-painted pottery and is completely different from the typical impasto tradition of South
Calabria, Campania and Central Italy.
Grey ware is an indigenous and specialised pottery production, which owes its name to the colour of the clay that became grey probably through firing in an oxygen reduced
atmosphere. Archaeometric analysis with the purpose of determining the manufacturing location is pending. Vessel shapes, clay and general features however strongly suggest that it was a local production. Grey ware is represented by a small amount of fragments. The group is important though because of its high degree of craftsmanship showing a mixture of local traditions and external influences. The production in the Sibaritide is probably connected with the production of Bronze Age Grey ware that is well-known from Broglio and Torre Mordillo
(two settlements in Sibaritide where the group is documented between the recent and final Bronze Age). The grey ware finds from the excavations in the Area Rovitti suggest an evolution in the development of the shapes of this pottery group that runs from the late
Bronze Age into the 8th century BC.
The approach taken in this study allows to study contacts between Francavilla and the Sibaritide and other areas of Southern and Central Italy. Trade and contacts are well documented by the circulation of goods (imports and exports) and ideas (diffusion of certain
shapes and types). Apart from imports in Francavilla and the Sibaritide from the Greek and probably the Phoenician world, objects also arrived from Apulia and Campania, while indigenous Oinotrian productions spread to Central and Southern Calabria, Campania, Etruria
and maybe to Sicily. The archaeological material from the Timpone presents us with a unique selection of pottery with local, regional, interregional and Mediterranean provenances.
The morphological panorama of the impasto from Francavilla shows a high degree of diversity in terms of shapes and types. Being the most common pots, the jars, bowls and storage vessels studied in this thesis are typical expressions of indigenous material culture.
However, also the existence of pots referring to a more generic ‘Italian traditions’ is noted that is well-documented in Central and Southern Italy (dippers, mugs, askòi, specific types of bowls). Finally, a few shapes portray a strong connection to Greek models (skyphoi, kotylai).
Even though a variation of the shapes does not automatically imply a variation in function, the impasto was used for several purposes, such as eating, cooking, drinking, pouring, and storing food. Fine impasto vessels may have corresponded to more specific uses (e.g., the conservation of certain types of liquids or semi liquids). Taking a more general perspective on the ceramic productions studied, it is possible to
trace partial overlaps in shapes and function between the impasto, matt-painted and grey ware groups. Sometimes the morphology of Oinotrian Euboian pots is directly related to the impasto tradition. This overlap seems to correspond to the increase of painted wares, which partially replaced impasto ware during the Iron age.
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