Il regno di Aḫḫijawa. I Micenei e la Sicilia. Edizioni Erma di Bretschneider., 2024
Estratto dal catalogo della mostra "Il regno di Aḫḫijawa
I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita ... more Estratto dal catalogo della mostra "Il regno di Aḫḫijawa I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita Crispino e Reinhard Jung.
Siracusa, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi” 11 maggio – 9 ottobre 2024
Annali Museo Civico di Rovereto Suppl. vol 27, 2022
Nel 1980 la Soprintendenza di Siracusa acquistò da Anita Orsi l’epistolario del grande archeologo... more Nel 1980 la Soprintendenza di Siracusa acquistò da Anita Orsi l’epistolario del grande archeologo Roveretano, arricchendo il “Fondo” di cui facevano parte i taccuini. Nel corso degli anni si è iniziato il lavoro di riordino delle oltre 12000 lettere con la trascrizione e digitalizzazione che permetterà la pubblicazione online dei documenti riuniti a quelli in possesso della Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto.
Thesaurus Amicorum. Studi in onore di Giuseppe Guzzetta a cura di Carmelo Crimi, Massimo Frasca, Renata Gentile Messina, Dario Palermo.Cronache di archeologia. Monografie , 2021
RIASSUNTO - Gli anni Trenta del secolo scorso vedono in Sicilia il rinnovamento del museo di Pale... more RIASSUNTO - Gli anni Trenta del secolo scorso vedono in Sicilia il rinnovamento del museo di Palermo e, nella Soprintendenza di Siracusa, il difficile passaggio da Paolo Orsi a Giuseppe Cultrera. Su quest’ultimo, Direttore della Sezione staccata di Palermo in un primo tempo e poi Soprintendente unico per tutta l’isola, convergono le relazioni dei lavori di Paolino Mingazzini e di Jole Bovio Marconi; e su di lui si accentrano le attenzioni degli studiosi interessati a lavorare su materiali siciliani (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) o a continuare lavori intrapresi nel corso della gestione di Paolo Orsi (Paola Zancani Montuoro). L’archivio privato di Giuseppe Cultrera, conservato presso la Soprintendenza di Siracusa e quello di Rosario Carta, restituiscono momenti interessanti, e anche umanamente rivelatori, di alcune vicende e personaggi di quegli anni fra Palermo e Siracusa. SUMMARY - During the ‘30s of last century the museum at Palermo was renewed and the superintendence of Syracuse passed from Paolo Orsi to Giuseppe Cultrera. The activites of Paolino Mingazzini and Jole Bovio Marconi focus on Cultrera, director of the detached section of Palermo and, for a brief period, Superintendent for the whole Sicilian territory, as well as a lot of archaeologists interested in the Sicilian materials (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) or willing to continue works started during Paolo Orsi’s direction (Paola Zancani Montuoro). The private archives of Giuseppe Cultrera, kept in Siracusa Superintendence, and Rosario Carta show us interesting and humanly revealing stories about people and events of those years between Palermo and Siracusa. Parole chiave: Sicilia, anni 30, archivio, archeologia, ricerca. Key words: Sicily, the 30s, archive, archaeology, research. Estratto
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology (11. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag), 2019
Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early
Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio... more Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This »house within a house« raised the question of whether the two structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and what purposes they served. A research project was therefore initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of the buildings and the materials used for their construction. This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investigation of the earthen building remains and possible reconstructions of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as discussing their functions and phases of use.
Vivere all’ombra del Vulcano L’insediamento di Valcorrente di Belpasso nel contesto degli studi sulla preistoria siciliana tra il IV e la prima metà del II millennio a.C., 2020
THE STRATIGRAPHY OF GROTTA PALOMBARA AND THE 14C DATING OF BELL BEAKER LEVELS.
Located 2 km North... more THE STRATIGRAPHY OF GROTTA PALOMBARA AND THE 14C DATING OF BELL BEAKER LEVELS. Located 2 km North of Siracusa, is a complex cave consisting of a number of long narrow corridors. The excavations carried out in 1958 by S. Tinè recorded a deposit containing different main levels dated from Late Neolithic to Late Copper Age. Interestingly, from these levels come two Bell Beakers fine vesselsand in 2015, thanks to the contribution of State Office for Hertitage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt – State Museum of Prehistory di Halle (Saale), they were dated back to 2500 BC. Fromthis data we can make some absumptionsabout the diffusion of thiskind of vase in Sicily and its use.
PAROLE CHIAVE: Sicilia, grotta, bicchiere campaniforme, 14C, Tarda Età del Rame. KEYWORD: Sicily, cave, Bell Baker, radiocarbon dating, Late Copper Age.
The study of vessel content can reveal important information about the dietary and culinary prefe... more The study of vessel content can reveal important information about the dietary and culinary preferences of ancient communities. In this preliminary study, we analysed the absorbed lipid content of ten vessels from the settlement of Castelluccio in Sicily, dating to the Early Bronze Age (EBA). The vessels tested included a small selection of ceramic forms typically found in Bronze Age sites in Sicily, namely fine drinking wares and coarse
ware vessels thought to have been used in food preparation and/or storage. All of the vessels tested were recovered from Hut 8. ORA results of this pilot project revealed challenging lipid preservation conditions known to occur in the Mediterranean region. Lipid analysis showed a possible animal contribution, although a plant input could not be excluded. Wine was not identified in the vessels tested.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1azZ%7E,rVDBVR%7EM
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology 11. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 18. bis 2o. Oktober 2o18 in Halle (Saale) 11th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany October 18–2o, 2o18 in Halle (Saale), 2019
Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio... more Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This »house within a house« raised the question of whether the two structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and what purposes they served. A research project was therefore initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of the buildings and the materials used for their construction. This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investiga- tion of the earthen building remains and possible reconstruc- tions of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as discussing their functions and phases of use.
ABSTRACT – An early bronze age well at Piazza Duomo, Siracusa – In the ’80s and ’90s of last cent... more ABSTRACT – An early bronze age well at Piazza Duomo, Siracusa – In the ’80s and ’90s of last century the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali of Siracusa, which at the time was directed by Giuseppe Voza, carried out some archaeological researches in the island of Ortygia, due to some public works.
The most interesting opportunity to explore the most important area of the island was the work needed for the new paving of Piazza Duomo. Several excavations of this vast area were carried out between 1992 and 1999.
In 1998, during the excavation of the area situated in front of the present building of the Soprintendenza, a well was found, which was completely explored; it was cut into the limestone up to a depth of about 12 meters and its excavation brought to light a chronologically homogeneous filling deposit, made of stones and even large
rock fragments, charcoals, animal bones and pottery sherds related to the so-called Messina Ricadi facies, that have been dated by the presence of a single Castelluccian fragment and by a radiocarbon dating carried out on a bone sample.
The study of the typology of the well excavation technique, the analysis of the pottery shapes as well as of the faunal and botanical remains, allowed us to reconstruct the environmental features and to reflect about the settlement of Ortygia during the Early Bronze Age.
ATTI DEL CONVEGNO DI STUDI ARCHEOLOGIA IN SICILIA TRA LE DUE GUERRE Modica, 5-6-7 Giugno 2014 n. 18-19/2014-2015 a cura di R. Panvini, A. Sammito, 2018
Programme de la journée d'étude "Privation de sépulture et dépôts humains non sépulcraux dans la ... more Programme de la journée d'étude "Privation de sépulture et dépôts humains non sépulcraux dans la Méditerranée antique"
13 novembre 2017
École française de Rome,
Piazza Navona 62
00186 Roma
Maternità e politeismi – Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms edited by F. Pasche Guignard, G. Pedrucci and M. Scapini, Sep 2017
Research on major cemeteries on the Syracuse chora, such as Monte Finocchito, Pantalica and Cozzo... more Research on major cemeteries on the Syracuse chora, such as Monte Finocchito, Pantalica and Cozzo della Tignusa, dated to the first two generations of Greek colonies, contributes to definitions of new relevant images of women in mixed communities, as well as of indigenous women. This chapter focuses on the roles played by those women, examining the importance of their activities and social status as they are reflected in funerary ideology and artistic representations at the end of the 8th century BCE. The aim of this chapter is thus to retrace women in the archaeological record of the early iron Age in southeast Sicily. It focuses on activities of the daily life, mainly domestic work and its resulting relationships, examining how these then affect women’s identities as mothers. The reassessment of the archaeological record coming from the main necropolises in the area around Syracuse leads to conclude that some indigenous women were identified among the other members of the community in a double role: they were specialized artisans in the textile economy in addition to their biological function as mothers.
Il regno di Aḫḫijawa. I Micenei e la Sicilia. Edizioni Erma di Bretschneider., 2024
Estratto dal catalogo della mostra "Il regno di Aḫḫijawa
I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita ... more Estratto dal catalogo della mostra "Il regno di Aḫḫijawa I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita Crispino e Reinhard Jung.
Siracusa, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi” 11 maggio – 9 ottobre 2024
Annali Museo Civico di Rovereto Suppl. vol 27, 2022
Nel 1980 la Soprintendenza di Siracusa acquistò da Anita Orsi l’epistolario del grande archeologo... more Nel 1980 la Soprintendenza di Siracusa acquistò da Anita Orsi l’epistolario del grande archeologo Roveretano, arricchendo il “Fondo” di cui facevano parte i taccuini. Nel corso degli anni si è iniziato il lavoro di riordino delle oltre 12000 lettere con la trascrizione e digitalizzazione che permetterà la pubblicazione online dei documenti riuniti a quelli in possesso della Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto.
Thesaurus Amicorum. Studi in onore di Giuseppe Guzzetta a cura di Carmelo Crimi, Massimo Frasca, Renata Gentile Messina, Dario Palermo.Cronache di archeologia. Monografie , 2021
RIASSUNTO - Gli anni Trenta del secolo scorso vedono in Sicilia il rinnovamento del museo di Pale... more RIASSUNTO - Gli anni Trenta del secolo scorso vedono in Sicilia il rinnovamento del museo di Palermo e, nella Soprintendenza di Siracusa, il difficile passaggio da Paolo Orsi a Giuseppe Cultrera. Su quest’ultimo, Direttore della Sezione staccata di Palermo in un primo tempo e poi Soprintendente unico per tutta l’isola, convergono le relazioni dei lavori di Paolino Mingazzini e di Jole Bovio Marconi; e su di lui si accentrano le attenzioni degli studiosi interessati a lavorare su materiali siciliani (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) o a continuare lavori intrapresi nel corso della gestione di Paolo Orsi (Paola Zancani Montuoro). L’archivio privato di Giuseppe Cultrera, conservato presso la Soprintendenza di Siracusa e quello di Rosario Carta, restituiscono momenti interessanti, e anche umanamente rivelatori, di alcune vicende e personaggi di quegli anni fra Palermo e Siracusa. SUMMARY - During the ‘30s of last century the museum at Palermo was renewed and the superintendence of Syracuse passed from Paolo Orsi to Giuseppe Cultrera. The activites of Paolino Mingazzini and Jole Bovio Marconi focus on Cultrera, director of the detached section of Palermo and, for a brief period, Superintendent for the whole Sicilian territory, as well as a lot of archaeologists interested in the Sicilian materials (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) or willing to continue works started during Paolo Orsi’s direction (Paola Zancani Montuoro). The private archives of Giuseppe Cultrera, kept in Siracusa Superintendence, and Rosario Carta show us interesting and humanly revealing stories about people and events of those years between Palermo and Siracusa. Parole chiave: Sicilia, anni 30, archivio, archeologia, ricerca. Key words: Sicily, the 30s, archive, archaeology, research. Estratto
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology (11. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag), 2019
Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early
Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio... more Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This »house within a house« raised the question of whether the two structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and what purposes they served. A research project was therefore initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of the buildings and the materials used for their construction. This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investigation of the earthen building remains and possible reconstructions of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as discussing their functions and phases of use.
Vivere all’ombra del Vulcano L’insediamento di Valcorrente di Belpasso nel contesto degli studi sulla preistoria siciliana tra il IV e la prima metà del II millennio a.C., 2020
THE STRATIGRAPHY OF GROTTA PALOMBARA AND THE 14C DATING OF BELL BEAKER LEVELS.
Located 2 km North... more THE STRATIGRAPHY OF GROTTA PALOMBARA AND THE 14C DATING OF BELL BEAKER LEVELS. Located 2 km North of Siracusa, is a complex cave consisting of a number of long narrow corridors. The excavations carried out in 1958 by S. Tinè recorded a deposit containing different main levels dated from Late Neolithic to Late Copper Age. Interestingly, from these levels come two Bell Beakers fine vesselsand in 2015, thanks to the contribution of State Office for Hertitage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt – State Museum of Prehistory di Halle (Saale), they were dated back to 2500 BC. Fromthis data we can make some absumptionsabout the diffusion of thiskind of vase in Sicily and its use.
PAROLE CHIAVE: Sicilia, grotta, bicchiere campaniforme, 14C, Tarda Età del Rame. KEYWORD: Sicily, cave, Bell Baker, radiocarbon dating, Late Copper Age.
The study of vessel content can reveal important information about the dietary and culinary prefe... more The study of vessel content can reveal important information about the dietary and culinary preferences of ancient communities. In this preliminary study, we analysed the absorbed lipid content of ten vessels from the settlement of Castelluccio in Sicily, dating to the Early Bronze Age (EBA). The vessels tested included a small selection of ceramic forms typically found in Bronze Age sites in Sicily, namely fine drinking wares and coarse
ware vessels thought to have been used in food preparation and/or storage. All of the vessels tested were recovered from Hut 8. ORA results of this pilot project revealed challenging lipid preservation conditions known to occur in the Mediterranean region. Lipid analysis showed a possible animal contribution, although a plant input could not be excluded. Wine was not identified in the vessels tested.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1azZ%7E,rVDBVR%7EM
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology 11. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 18. bis 2o. Oktober 2o18 in Halle (Saale) 11th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany October 18–2o, 2o18 in Halle (Saale), 2019
Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio... more Since it was first discovered, Hut (Capanna) 8 at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This »house within a house« raised the question of whether the two structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and what purposes they served. A research project was therefore initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of the buildings and the materials used for their construction. This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investiga- tion of the earthen building remains and possible reconstruc- tions of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as discussing their functions and phases of use.
ABSTRACT – An early bronze age well at Piazza Duomo, Siracusa – In the ’80s and ’90s of last cent... more ABSTRACT – An early bronze age well at Piazza Duomo, Siracusa – In the ’80s and ’90s of last century the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali of Siracusa, which at the time was directed by Giuseppe Voza, carried out some archaeological researches in the island of Ortygia, due to some public works.
The most interesting opportunity to explore the most important area of the island was the work needed for the new paving of Piazza Duomo. Several excavations of this vast area were carried out between 1992 and 1999.
In 1998, during the excavation of the area situated in front of the present building of the Soprintendenza, a well was found, which was completely explored; it was cut into the limestone up to a depth of about 12 meters and its excavation brought to light a chronologically homogeneous filling deposit, made of stones and even large
rock fragments, charcoals, animal bones and pottery sherds related to the so-called Messina Ricadi facies, that have been dated by the presence of a single Castelluccian fragment and by a radiocarbon dating carried out on a bone sample.
The study of the typology of the well excavation technique, the analysis of the pottery shapes as well as of the faunal and botanical remains, allowed us to reconstruct the environmental features and to reflect about the settlement of Ortygia during the Early Bronze Age.
ATTI DEL CONVEGNO DI STUDI ARCHEOLOGIA IN SICILIA TRA LE DUE GUERRE Modica, 5-6-7 Giugno 2014 n. 18-19/2014-2015 a cura di R. Panvini, A. Sammito, 2018
Programme de la journée d'étude "Privation de sépulture et dépôts humains non sépulcraux dans la ... more Programme de la journée d'étude "Privation de sépulture et dépôts humains non sépulcraux dans la Méditerranée antique"
13 novembre 2017
École française de Rome,
Piazza Navona 62
00186 Roma
Maternità e politeismi – Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms edited by F. Pasche Guignard, G. Pedrucci and M. Scapini, Sep 2017
Research on major cemeteries on the Syracuse chora, such as Monte Finocchito, Pantalica and Cozzo... more Research on major cemeteries on the Syracuse chora, such as Monte Finocchito, Pantalica and Cozzo della Tignusa, dated to the first two generations of Greek colonies, contributes to definitions of new relevant images of women in mixed communities, as well as of indigenous women. This chapter focuses on the roles played by those women, examining the importance of their activities and social status as they are reflected in funerary ideology and artistic representations at the end of the 8th century BCE. The aim of this chapter is thus to retrace women in the archaeological record of the early iron Age in southeast Sicily. It focuses on activities of the daily life, mainly domestic work and its resulting relationships, examining how these then affect women’s identities as mothers. The reassessment of the archaeological record coming from the main necropolises in the area around Syracuse leads to conclude that some indigenous women were identified among the other members of the community in a double role: they were specialized artisans in the textile economy in addition to their biological function as mothers.
Catalogo della Mostra. Siracusa museo "Paolo Orsi" 11 maggio - 9 ottobre 2024.
Divisa in otto sez... more Catalogo della Mostra. Siracusa museo "Paolo Orsi" 11 maggio - 9 ottobre 2024. Divisa in otto sezioni, nasce come approfondimento di conoscenza della straordinaria civiltà, ricordata nei testi ittiti col nome di Aḫḫijawa, che, intorno alla metà del II millennio a.C., prende forma nella Grecia continentale, definita micenea dal nome del più importante sito di questa fase, Micene in Argolide. Essa occuperà l’intero arco della tarda età del Bronzo in Grecia, tra il XVII/ XVI e l’XI sec. a.C., definito Tardo Elladico.
Le tematiche in cui è suddiviso il progetto sono dedicate agli aspetti caratteristici della società micenea tramite testimonianze della cultura materiale che meglio potessero riflettere la ricchezza e la complessità sociale in questa fase della storia del Mediterraneo.
Catalogo della mostra. Con contributi di Salvatore Chilardi, Enrico Giannitrapani e Maria Clara M... more Catalogo della mostra. Con contributi di Salvatore Chilardi, Enrico Giannitrapani e Maria Clara Martinelli
Le profond renouvellement de l’archéologie funéraire, suscité par l’essor de l’archéothanatologie... more Le profond renouvellement de l’archéologie funéraire, suscité par l’essor de l’archéothanatologie au cours des trente dernières années, invite à reconsidérer aujourd’hui la notion de « sépulture » en s’intéressant aux pratiques funéraires mais aussi juridiques et rituelles qui encadraient la prise en charge des morts dans la Méditerranée antique. Quels étaient les défunts qui avaient le droit à la sépulture, c’est-à-dire ceux qui se voyaient placés dans un lieu dédié, à l’issue d’une cérémonie plus ou moins soignée ? Selon quels critères (âge, sexe, statut social, état de santé…) étaient-ils sélectionnés, regroupés et honorés ? Quelles autorités étaient chargées de la gestion des corps et des espaces funéraires ? Quelles lois régissaient la protection des sépultures et, symétriquement, réprimaient leur violation ? Enfin, qu’advenait-il du corps de ceux qui se voyaient refusé l’accès à l’espace funéraire ? Ce volume collectif, convoquant conjointement les témoignages de l’histoire, de l’histoire du droit, de l’archéologie, de l’anthropologie biologique et de l’épigraphie, tente d’apporter quelques réponses à ces questions à travers une série d’études de cas principalement centrées sur le monde gréco-romain du premier millénaire av. J.-C. jusqu’à la fin de l’Antiquité. Aboutissement de trois journées d’études internationales tenues à Rome entre 2015 et 2017, il présente à la fois une approche pluridisciplinaire de ces questions, un bilan des acquis récents et une mise en perspective des avancées, problématiques et méthodologiques, de la réflexion en archéologie funéraire de la Méditerranée antique.
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I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita Crispino e Reinhard Jung.
Siracusa, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
11 maggio – 9 ottobre 2024
nella Soprintendenza di Siracusa, il difficile passaggio da Paolo Orsi a Giuseppe Cultrera. Su quest’ultimo,
Direttore della Sezione staccata di Palermo in un primo tempo e poi Soprintendente unico per tutta l’isola,
convergono le relazioni dei lavori di Paolino Mingazzini e di Jole Bovio Marconi; e su di lui si accentrano le
attenzioni degli studiosi interessati a lavorare su materiali siciliani (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) o a continuare
lavori intrapresi nel corso della gestione di Paolo Orsi (Paola Zancani Montuoro). L’archivio privato di Giuseppe
Cultrera, conservato presso la Soprintendenza di Siracusa e quello di Rosario Carta, restituiscono momenti
interessanti, e anche umanamente rivelatori, di alcune vicende e personaggi di quegli anni fra Palermo
e Siracusa.
SUMMARY - During the ‘30s of last century the museum at Palermo was renewed and the superintendence
of Syracuse passed from Paolo Orsi to Giuseppe Cultrera. The activites of Paolino Mingazzini and Jole Bovio
Marconi focus on Cultrera, director of the detached section of Palermo and, for a brief period, Superintendent
for the whole Sicilian territory, as well as a lot of archaeologists interested in the Sicilian materials
(Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) or willing to continue works started during Paolo Orsi’s direction (Paola Zancani
Montuoro). The private archives of Giuseppe Cultrera, kept in Siracusa Superintendence, and Rosario Carta
show us interesting and humanly revealing stories about people and events of those years between Palermo
and Siracusa.
Parole chiave: Sicilia, anni 30, archivio, archeologia, ricerca.
Key words: Sicily, the 30s, archive, archaeology, research.
Estratto
Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given
its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of
Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual
architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal
longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It
not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval
longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with
the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This
»house within a house« raised the question of whether the two
structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and
what purposes they served. A research project was therefore
initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of
the buildings and the materials used for their construction.
This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investigation
of the earthen building remains and possible reconstructions
of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as
discussing their functions and phases of use.
Located 2 km North of Siracusa, is a complex cave consisting of a number of long narrow corridors. The excavations carried out in 1958 by S. Tinè recorded a deposit containing different main levels dated from Late Neolithic to Late Copper Age. Interestingly, from these levels come two Bell Beakers fine vesselsand in 2015, thanks to the contribution of State Office for Hertitage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt – State Museum of Prehistory di Halle (Saale), they were dated back to 2500 BC. Fromthis data we can make some absumptionsabout the diffusion of thiskind of vase in Sicily and its use.
PAROLE CHIAVE: Sicilia, grotta, bicchiere campaniforme, 14C, Tarda Età del Rame.
KEYWORD: Sicily, cave, Bell Baker, radiocarbon dating, Late Copper Age.
ware vessels thought to have been used in food preparation and/or storage. All of the vessels tested were recovered from Hut 8. ORA results of this pilot project revealed challenging lipid preservation conditions known to occur in the Mediterranean region. Lipid analysis showed a possible animal contribution, although a plant input could not be excluded. Wine was not identified in the vessels tested.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1azZ%7E,rVDBVR%7EM
The most interesting opportunity to explore the most important area of the island was the work needed for the new paving of Piazza Duomo. Several excavations of this vast area were carried out between 1992 and 1999.
In 1998, during the excavation of the area situated in front of the present building of the Soprintendenza, a well was found, which was completely explored; it was cut into the limestone up to a depth of about 12 meters and its excavation brought to light a chronologically homogeneous filling deposit, made of stones and even large
rock fragments, charcoals, animal bones and pottery sherds related to the so-called Messina Ricadi facies, that have been dated by the presence of a single Castelluccian fragment and by a radiocarbon dating carried out on a bone sample.
The study of the typology of the well excavation technique, the analysis of the pottery shapes as well as of the faunal and botanical remains, allowed us to reconstruct the environmental features and to reflect about the settlement of Ortygia during the Early Bronze Age.
13 novembre 2017
École française de Rome,
Piazza Navona 62
00186 Roma
I Micenei e la Sicilia" a cura di Anita Crispino e Reinhard Jung.
Siracusa, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
11 maggio – 9 ottobre 2024
nella Soprintendenza di Siracusa, il difficile passaggio da Paolo Orsi a Giuseppe Cultrera. Su quest’ultimo,
Direttore della Sezione staccata di Palermo in un primo tempo e poi Soprintendente unico per tutta l’isola,
convergono le relazioni dei lavori di Paolino Mingazzini e di Jole Bovio Marconi; e su di lui si accentrano le
attenzioni degli studiosi interessati a lavorare su materiali siciliani (Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) o a continuare
lavori intrapresi nel corso della gestione di Paolo Orsi (Paola Zancani Montuoro). L’archivio privato di Giuseppe
Cultrera, conservato presso la Soprintendenza di Siracusa e quello di Rosario Carta, restituiscono momenti
interessanti, e anche umanamente rivelatori, di alcune vicende e personaggi di quegli anni fra Palermo
e Siracusa.
SUMMARY - During the ‘30s of last century the museum at Palermo was renewed and the superintendence
of Syracuse passed from Paolo Orsi to Giuseppe Cultrera. The activites of Paolino Mingazzini and Jole Bovio
Marconi focus on Cultrera, director of the detached section of Palermo and, for a brief period, Superintendent
for the whole Sicilian territory, as well as a lot of archaeologists interested in the Sicilian materials
(Giulio Emanuele Rizzo) or willing to continue works started during Paolo Orsi’s direction (Paola Zancani
Montuoro). The private archives of Giuseppe Cultrera, kept in Siracusa Superintendence, and Rosario Carta
show us interesting and humanly revealing stories about people and events of those years between Palermo
and Siracusa.
Parole chiave: Sicilia, anni 30, archivio, archeologia, ricerca.
Key words: Sicily, the 30s, archive, archaeology, research.
Estratto
Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio, a site which has given
its name to a cultural complex found throughout much of
Sicily at this period, has always been seen as an unusual
architectural complex. It is one of a number of rare bi-apsidal
longhouses with an oval ground plan cut into the bedrock. It
not only has the largest internal surface area of all the oval
longhouses so far discovered but is also the only one with
the remains of a second, rectangular structure inside it. This
»house within a house« raised the question of whether the two
structures, oval and rectangular, were contemporary and
what purposes they served. A research project was therefore
initiated in 2o15 whose aim was to analyse the architecture of
the buildings and the materials used for their construction.
This paper presents the initial results of a detailed investigation
of the earthen building remains and possible reconstructions
of the above-ground elements of the buildings, as well as
discussing their functions and phases of use.
Located 2 km North of Siracusa, is a complex cave consisting of a number of long narrow corridors. The excavations carried out in 1958 by S. Tinè recorded a deposit containing different main levels dated from Late Neolithic to Late Copper Age. Interestingly, from these levels come two Bell Beakers fine vesselsand in 2015, thanks to the contribution of State Office for Hertitage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt – State Museum of Prehistory di Halle (Saale), they were dated back to 2500 BC. Fromthis data we can make some absumptionsabout the diffusion of thiskind of vase in Sicily and its use.
PAROLE CHIAVE: Sicilia, grotta, bicchiere campaniforme, 14C, Tarda Età del Rame.
KEYWORD: Sicily, cave, Bell Baker, radiocarbon dating, Late Copper Age.
ware vessels thought to have been used in food preparation and/or storage. All of the vessels tested were recovered from Hut 8. ORA results of this pilot project revealed challenging lipid preservation conditions known to occur in the Mediterranean region. Lipid analysis showed a possible animal contribution, although a plant input could not be excluded. Wine was not identified in the vessels tested.
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The most interesting opportunity to explore the most important area of the island was the work needed for the new paving of Piazza Duomo. Several excavations of this vast area were carried out between 1992 and 1999.
In 1998, during the excavation of the area situated in front of the present building of the Soprintendenza, a well was found, which was completely explored; it was cut into the limestone up to a depth of about 12 meters and its excavation brought to light a chronologically homogeneous filling deposit, made of stones and even large
rock fragments, charcoals, animal bones and pottery sherds related to the so-called Messina Ricadi facies, that have been dated by the presence of a single Castelluccian fragment and by a radiocarbon dating carried out on a bone sample.
The study of the typology of the well excavation technique, the analysis of the pottery shapes as well as of the faunal and botanical remains, allowed us to reconstruct the environmental features and to reflect about the settlement of Ortygia during the Early Bronze Age.
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Divisa in otto sezioni, nasce come approfondimento di conoscenza della straordinaria civiltà, ricordata nei testi ittiti col nome di Aḫḫijawa, che, intorno alla metà del II millennio a.C., prende forma nella Grecia continentale, definita micenea dal nome del più importante sito di questa fase, Micene in Argolide. Essa occuperà l’intero arco della tarda età del Bronzo in Grecia, tra il XVII/ XVI e l’XI sec. a.C., definito Tardo Elladico.
Le tematiche in cui è suddiviso il progetto sono dedicate agli aspetti caratteristici della società micenea tramite testimonianze della cultura materiale che meglio potessero riflettere la ricchezza e la complessità sociale in questa fase della storia del Mediterraneo.
Ce volume collectif, convoquant conjointement les témoignages de l’histoire, de l’histoire du droit, de l’archéologie, de l’anthropologie biologique et de l’épigraphie, tente d’apporter quelques réponses à ces questions à travers une série d’études de cas principalement centrées sur le monde gréco-romain du premier millénaire av. J.-C. jusqu’à la fin de l’Antiquité. Aboutissement de trois journées d’études internationales tenues à Rome entre 2015 et 2017, il présente à la fois une approche pluridisciplinaire de ces questions, un bilan des acquis récents et une mise en perspective des avancées, problématiques et méthodologiques, de la réflexion en archéologie funéraire de la Méditerranée antique.