Preliminary Report on the 2014 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP)

Walthall, Alex and Souza, Randall and Benton, Jared (2016) Preliminary Report on the 2014 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). FOLD&R FastiOnLine documents & research (364). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1828-3179

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Abstract

This article provides a preliminary report on the 2014 excavations carried out by the American Excavations at Morgantina (Sicily): Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). The 2014 season was the second year of this multiyear research and excavation project aimed at investigating both the urban planning of the city and the lives of its residents, with a specific focus on the periods of occupation and cultural transformation from the third to first century BCE. During the second season, three trenches were excavated in the area corresponding to Lot One of the urban insula W13/14S. This preliminary report presents the significant stratigraphic units and material finds encountered in each trench, along with a provisional outline of the phases of activity, setting the developments observed in each trench within the broader historical and archaeological context of the urban center at Morgantina. The discovery of several rooms with similar architectural features suggests that they belong to a single building, the so-called Southeast Building, the function and dimensions of which will be investigated in future CAP excavations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Sicilia, Morgantina, Contrada Agnese Project (CAP), Insula, III-I sec. a.C.
Subjects: 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca.
900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. > 939 Archeologia – Altre Regioni del mondo antico
Depositing User: Dott.ssa Helga Di Giuseppe
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2016 08:58
Last Modified: 06 Sep 2016 08:58
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15018

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