Abstract

In 2014, the Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Postgraduate School of Archaeology, Matera, Italy) in collaboration with the École Pratique des Hautes Études (UMR 8546, Paris) carried out a four week excavation campaign in Policoro (Basilicata, southern Italy) within the scope of a 3-year agreement with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata. Three excavation trenches were laid out. The first one (A) was positioned in the courtyard of a building with portico within insula I in the so-called “Quartiere centrale” on the Castello Hill, partly excavated in the 1960s. This trench yielded evidence of the production of bronze coins during the 3 rd and 2 nd centuries BC. In particular, two small pits dug into the ground contained two types of coin blanks, as well as a coin of the same type as some of the blanks, slags and scoriae, and terracotta fragments. Moreover, a discarded rim fragment from a matt-painted olla found in trench A testifies to the production of local pottery on the site during the 7 th century BC. Another trench (B) was placed on the southern edge of the Castello plateau. Here, the outskirts of a Hellenistic living quarter were brought to light. On the surface, there were numerous Archaic pottery fragments, among others a Milesian oinochoe from the third quarter of the 7 th century BC. In the third trench (C), situated in the cella of the so-called “Archaic Temple” in the Varatizzo Val- ley, the excavations brought to light a pebble floor that yielded various pottery fragments from the second half of the 7 th century BC. In light of these promising results, excavations in all three trenches will be carried out in future campaigns

Autore Pugliese

• Silvestrelli Francesca

Tutti gli autori

• Osanna M. , Verger S. , Pace R. , Zuchtriegel G. , Silvestrelli F.

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2015

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1824-8659

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