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The municipium of Albintimilium is located at the eastern boundary of the present city of Ventimi... more The municipium of Albintimilium is located at the eastern boundary of the present city of Ventimiglia (IM) where,
during the Roman era, there was the only plain space between the creek of Nervia to the east, the slopes of the Colla
Sgarba to the north and the sea to the south. The founding of the Roman city dates back to the second century BC and
occupies the land that Liguri Intemelii inhabited at that time. The heyday lied in the imperial era, when it attended to the
construction of the main public buildings, which would follow a progressive and slow decline, although archaeological
investigations, still under way, confirm a continuity of life until the VI - VII century AD. Later the built-up area would
be moved from the Nervia plain to the present uptown, to the west of the Roja River, in a higher and better defendable
place.
To the west of the urban district, below the modern railroad track, there was an extended necropolis, already formed
during the early imperial age, which began at the exit of the city main door, still partially preserved, called "Provençal"
and proceeded to the sides of Via Iulia Augusta. At the beginning of the III century AD, this area of the city was
occupied by the theater building, built on the western side of the late republican city walls now abandoned. At a later stage, coinciding with a gradual abandonment of the public facilities, the theater outdoor and indoor area would be
occupied by late burials. Particularly, in the area between the "Gate of Provence” and the external hemicycle of the
theater - near a 1st-century funerary monument (M fence) -, from 1948 under the direction of Nino Lamboglia, a
nucleus of burials ( Tombs 157-172), mainly amphora or “cappuccina” tombs dating from the third to the fourth century
A.C, was dig up.
Here is proposed the analysis of a peculiar superimposed burial (T157) of two distinct individuals.
The lower tomb (T 157B) was a canonical “cappuccina tomb”, with three large tiles arranged flat, closed to the head by
one in a vertical position and other six placed sloped. When the grave was discovered, it was almost free of earthy
damages and had kept the skeleton intact as well as all the grave goods. It consists of a disc lamp with leaf vine
decoration placed on the side of the right knee, a wooden armilla still around the left humerus and two bronze rings at
the fingers of the left hand. The dating of the burial, based on the grave goods and the terracotta scraps rediscovered in
the foundation pit, can be ascribed to the full III sec. AD.
At a later stage, above the top of the roof of the first deposition, there were placed three more large tiles used as bed for
the second deposition as a terracotta protection (T157A), or protected by an African amphora longitudinally cut into
two halves. At the time of the finding, the amphora was very damaged and maimed of the hem and of the tip, but still
recognizable as per typology, dating back to the III sec. A.D.
The small chronological distance, as evidenced by archaeological documentation, suggests that the choice of placing the
second person in direct contact with the roof of the former is intentional. Into the necropolis, at present, this is the only
"two-story" burial site, but it can be compared with the tomb 1 of the Isasco necropolis (Varigotti-SV), which also
includes a tomb consisting of a wooden coffin burial protected by a stone wall and large tiles arranged flat that made up
the bed of the second “cappuccina tomb”. The dating proposed by Lamboglia for the tomb of Isasco, which at the time
of its discovery was found broadly tempered with, is the Augustan age because of the discovery of a coin and few
surviving materials, but the other burials of the necropolis are dating back to III-IV sec. AD.
The anthropological analysis, happened nearly 60 years after the discovery and the recovery by Lamboglia, as part of a
global reassessment of the stratigraphy of the area, showed that the first individual set down was a woman aged
between 45 and 55 years, while the second one was a man aged 50 to 55 years. The man showed traces of an important
pathology, probably DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis).
There are no signs that reveal a genetic link, which could only be established by the DNA study of both the individuals,
but it is clear how intentionally a contact between the two tombs was deliberately sought, highlighting an intentional
eternal bond of affection.
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La fouille programmee du complexe paleochretien de 2014 a ete accordee au Pontificio Istituto di ... more La fouille programmee du complexe paleochretien de 2014 a ete accordee au Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, en collaboration avec le LA3M, placee sous la direction de Philippe Pergola (responsable scientifique d'une premiere campagne en 1987, puis de 2008 a 2011, dans le cadre d'une convention avec la Suritendance archeologique de Ligurie). La Fondation Nino Lamboglia a assure le financement de la campagne avec une subvention de la Commune de Riva Ligure. Le complexe rural paleochretien de Capo Don a Riva Ligure est le plus monumental de toute l'Italie nord occidentale (basilique de 30 metres de longueur, baptistere et vaste cimetiere avec plusieurs sepultures en sarcophages). Le complexe est construit au-dessus des restes d'une grande villa maritime romaine, durant la premiere moitie du VIe siecle et qui fut probablement la mansio de Costa Balenae qui apparait sur la Tabula Peutingeriana. Les differentes campagnes, et celle de 2014 en particulier, ont pe...
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The Roman baths of Albintimilium, located in the old western district of the town and discovered ... more The Roman baths of Albintimilium, located in the old western district of the town and discovered fortuitously at the end of the nineteenth century, were excavated since 1955 by Nino Lamboglia, who, on several occasions in the following years, brought to light some compartments relevant to them (cali-daria, tepidaria, praefurnia). The public building, originally, measured an area of about 2000 m²; today the remains of this structure can be seen in the Antiquarium and the archaeological sites of Ventimiglia. Among the materials found during the excavations there are numerous slabs of wall covering in precious marbles, fragments of framings, moulded elements and some fragments of wall decorations made of stucco, just like the pilasters. Most of the finds have never been examined in a separate study aimed to the reconstruction of the parietal decoration of the various rooms. In a postgraduate thesis in Classical Archaeology it was possible to deal with a survey and a cataloging of this coating material, to identify the up brightly coloured stone types of the various fragments and propose a hypothetical reconstruction of the interior decoration of the rooms.
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Conference Presentations by Luigi Gambaro
Luigi Gambaro (MIBACT -Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Liguria), Andrea Parodi
III CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA SECAH - EX OFFICINA HISPANA
"Amphorae ex Hispania. Paisajes de producción y de consumo"
(Tarragona, 10-13 de diciembre de 2014)
disponibile l'articolo esteso relativo ai dati qui presentati:
here is available the extended article:
https://www.academia.edu/30526323/Amphorae_ex_Hispania_nella_Liguria_di_Ponente_nel_corso_della_prima_e_media_et%C3%A0_imperiale_-_Spanish_amphorae_in_western_Liguria_during_the_early_and_middle_roman_imperial_age
Antropologia e Archeologia dell'Amore by Luigi Gambaro
during the Roman era, there was the only plain space between the creek of Nervia to the east, the slopes of the Colla
Sgarba to the north and the sea to the south. The founding of the Roman city dates back to the second century BC and
occupies the land that Liguri Intemelii inhabited at that time. The heyday lied in the imperial era, when it attended to the
construction of the main public buildings, which would follow a progressive and slow decline, although archaeological
investigations, still under way, confirm a continuity of life until the VI - VII century AD. Later the built-up area would
be moved from the Nervia plain to the present uptown, to the west of the Roja River, in a higher and better defendable
place.
To the west of the urban district, below the modern railroad track, there was an extended necropolis, already formed
during the early imperial age, which began at the exit of the city main door, still partially preserved, called "Provençal"
and proceeded to the sides of Via Iulia Augusta. At the beginning of the III century AD, this area of the city was
occupied by the theater building, built on the western side of the late republican city walls now abandoned. At a later stage, coinciding with a gradual abandonment of the public facilities, the theater outdoor and indoor area would be
occupied by late burials. Particularly, in the area between the "Gate of Provence” and the external hemicycle of the
theater - near a 1st-century funerary monument (M fence) -, from 1948 under the direction of Nino Lamboglia, a
nucleus of burials ( Tombs 157-172), mainly amphora or “cappuccina” tombs dating from the third to the fourth century
A.C, was dig up.
Here is proposed the analysis of a peculiar superimposed burial (T157) of two distinct individuals.
The lower tomb (T 157B) was a canonical “cappuccina tomb”, with three large tiles arranged flat, closed to the head by
one in a vertical position and other six placed sloped. When the grave was discovered, it was almost free of earthy
damages and had kept the skeleton intact as well as all the grave goods. It consists of a disc lamp with leaf vine
decoration placed on the side of the right knee, a wooden armilla still around the left humerus and two bronze rings at
the fingers of the left hand. The dating of the burial, based on the grave goods and the terracotta scraps rediscovered in
the foundation pit, can be ascribed to the full III sec. AD.
At a later stage, above the top of the roof of the first deposition, there were placed three more large tiles used as bed for
the second deposition as a terracotta protection (T157A), or protected by an African amphora longitudinally cut into
two halves. At the time of the finding, the amphora was very damaged and maimed of the hem and of the tip, but still
recognizable as per typology, dating back to the III sec. A.D.
The small chronological distance, as evidenced by archaeological documentation, suggests that the choice of placing the
second person in direct contact with the roof of the former is intentional. Into the necropolis, at present, this is the only
"two-story" burial site, but it can be compared with the tomb 1 of the Isasco necropolis (Varigotti-SV), which also
includes a tomb consisting of a wooden coffin burial protected by a stone wall and large tiles arranged flat that made up
the bed of the second “cappuccina tomb”. The dating proposed by Lamboglia for the tomb of Isasco, which at the time
of its discovery was found broadly tempered with, is the Augustan age because of the discovery of a coin and few
surviving materials, but the other burials of the necropolis are dating back to III-IV sec. AD.
The anthropological analysis, happened nearly 60 years after the discovery and the recovery by Lamboglia, as part of a
global reassessment of the stratigraphy of the area, showed that the first individual set down was a woman aged
between 45 and 55 years, while the second one was a man aged 50 to 55 years. The man showed traces of an important
pathology, probably DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis).
There are no signs that reveal a genetic link, which could only be established by the DNA study of both the individuals,
but it is clear how intentionally a contact between the two tombs was deliberately sought, highlighting an intentional
eternal bond of affection.
Papers by Luigi Gambaro
Luigi Gambaro (MIBACT -Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Liguria), Andrea Parodi
III CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA SECAH - EX OFFICINA HISPANA
"Amphorae ex Hispania. Paisajes de producción y de consumo"
(Tarragona, 10-13 de diciembre de 2014)
disponibile l'articolo esteso relativo ai dati qui presentati:
here is available the extended article:
https://www.academia.edu/30526323/Amphorae_ex_Hispania_nella_Liguria_di_Ponente_nel_corso_della_prima_e_media_et%C3%A0_imperiale_-_Spanish_amphorae_in_western_Liguria_during_the_early_and_middle_roman_imperial_age
during the Roman era, there was the only plain space between the creek of Nervia to the east, the slopes of the Colla
Sgarba to the north and the sea to the south. The founding of the Roman city dates back to the second century BC and
occupies the land that Liguri Intemelii inhabited at that time. The heyday lied in the imperial era, when it attended to the
construction of the main public buildings, which would follow a progressive and slow decline, although archaeological
investigations, still under way, confirm a continuity of life until the VI - VII century AD. Later the built-up area would
be moved from the Nervia plain to the present uptown, to the west of the Roja River, in a higher and better defendable
place.
To the west of the urban district, below the modern railroad track, there was an extended necropolis, already formed
during the early imperial age, which began at the exit of the city main door, still partially preserved, called "Provençal"
and proceeded to the sides of Via Iulia Augusta. At the beginning of the III century AD, this area of the city was
occupied by the theater building, built on the western side of the late republican city walls now abandoned. At a later stage, coinciding with a gradual abandonment of the public facilities, the theater outdoor and indoor area would be
occupied by late burials. Particularly, in the area between the "Gate of Provence” and the external hemicycle of the
theater - near a 1st-century funerary monument (M fence) -, from 1948 under the direction of Nino Lamboglia, a
nucleus of burials ( Tombs 157-172), mainly amphora or “cappuccina” tombs dating from the third to the fourth century
A.C, was dig up.
Here is proposed the analysis of a peculiar superimposed burial (T157) of two distinct individuals.
The lower tomb (T 157B) was a canonical “cappuccina tomb”, with three large tiles arranged flat, closed to the head by
one in a vertical position and other six placed sloped. When the grave was discovered, it was almost free of earthy
damages and had kept the skeleton intact as well as all the grave goods. It consists of a disc lamp with leaf vine
decoration placed on the side of the right knee, a wooden armilla still around the left humerus and two bronze rings at
the fingers of the left hand. The dating of the burial, based on the grave goods and the terracotta scraps rediscovered in
the foundation pit, can be ascribed to the full III sec. AD.
At a later stage, above the top of the roof of the first deposition, there were placed three more large tiles used as bed for
the second deposition as a terracotta protection (T157A), or protected by an African amphora longitudinally cut into
two halves. At the time of the finding, the amphora was very damaged and maimed of the hem and of the tip, but still
recognizable as per typology, dating back to the III sec. A.D.
The small chronological distance, as evidenced by archaeological documentation, suggests that the choice of placing the
second person in direct contact with the roof of the former is intentional. Into the necropolis, at present, this is the only
"two-story" burial site, but it can be compared with the tomb 1 of the Isasco necropolis (Varigotti-SV), which also
includes a tomb consisting of a wooden coffin burial protected by a stone wall and large tiles arranged flat that made up
the bed of the second “cappuccina tomb”. The dating proposed by Lamboglia for the tomb of Isasco, which at the time
of its discovery was found broadly tempered with, is the Augustan age because of the discovery of a coin and few
surviving materials, but the other burials of the necropolis are dating back to III-IV sec. AD.
The anthropological analysis, happened nearly 60 years after the discovery and the recovery by Lamboglia, as part of a
global reassessment of the stratigraphy of the area, showed that the first individual set down was a woman aged
between 45 and 55 years, while the second one was a man aged 50 to 55 years. The man showed traces of an important
pathology, probably DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis).
There are no signs that reveal a genetic link, which could only be established by the DNA study of both the individuals,
but it is clear how intentionally a contact between the two tombs was deliberately sought, highlighting an intentional
eternal bond of affection.