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Excavations at Fregellae, 1978–1984: An Interim Report on the Work of the British Team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

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Scavi a fregellae 1978–1984

L'articolo contiene la prima parte di un resoconto provvisorio sulla recente opera di scavo a Fregellae da parte di un gruppo di archeologi inglesi. Dopo una breve introduzione sulla storia della colonia e sullo sviluppo degli scavi, l'articolo tratta dell'area del santuario e delle mura della cittá. Ne emerge che il complesso monumentale del santuario fu forse costruito nel secondo quarto del II secolo a.C. e distrutto nel 125 d.C. Viene anche dimostrato che almeno una parte delle mura della cittá fu costruita per la prima volta durante la seconda Guerra Punica.

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Copyright © British School at Rome 1984

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1 S. Quilici Gigli, SE 1970, 363, ‘La valle del Sacco nel quadro delle comunicazioni tra Etruria e Magna Grecia’.

2 See Stibbe, C. M., in Satricum (Alinari, 1982), 1921Google Scholar.

3 Livy ii, 21, 7; the absence of Signia from the list of Latin cities in Dion. Hal. v, 61, is indicative.

4 Livy viii, 22, 2.

5 Livy viii, 23, 6; Dion. Hal. xv, 7 (8); 8 (11).

6 Livy ix, 12, 5–8; 28, 1–3.

7 Although, as we shall see, the position of the earliest settlement within the space eventually occupied by Fregellae has not been identified, the date of the finds at the extra-urban sanctuary of Aesculapius make it unlikely that the earliest phase of the colony was itself at Rocca d'Arce (contra Säflund, G., Op. Arch. 1, 1935, 64Google Scholar, ‘Ancient Latin cities’).

8 Colasanti, G., Fregellae (Loescher, 1906Google Scholar).

9 See Pinna, A. and Ferrea, L., in Archeologia Laziale 3, 205Google Scholar, for a preliminary account; the two associated coins are RRC no. 14/6 (280–276 B.C.) and 56/6 (after 211 B.C.).

10 There seems no good reason to suppose the base later than the line of tufa blocks, contra Pagliardi, N., Archeologia Laziale 3, 183Google Scholar.

11 We here refer briefly to those aspects of the work of the Italian team which are necessary to the understanding of the work of the British team; for details, we must await their publication by Prof. F. Coarelli.

12 For a preliminary account see Archeologia Laziale 3, 183.