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Recovering evidence for the use of marble and coloured limestone in the first century AD in excavations at the sanctuary of Venus at Pompeii.
2008
Les sanctuaires d'Aunou-sur-Orne et Alençon (Orne)
2009
Ill. en noir et en coul. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme présentée au Musée de Vieux-la-Romaine, Calvados, 16 mai-3 novembre 2009
Segesta, Santuario di Contrada Mango. Materiali e contesti degli scavi Tusa
2023
The volume is the edition of the old excavations carried out in Segesta, at the Sanctuary of Contrada Mango, between the 1950s and the 1960s of the twentieth century. The sanctuary is located on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Barbaro. It has returned a monumental peribolos and the remains of a peripteral temple. The sacred area documents phenomena of cultural interaction between the Elymian center and the Hellenic environment (Selinuntine first of all) in the Archaic and Classical Ages. It is an intense and multiform relationship, now made tangible not only by the monumental sacred architecture but also by the architectural ornamentations, the statuary in Parian marble, the imported cera…
Le armi dal complesso sacro di Contrada Gaggera a Selinunte: alcuni dati preliminari
2022
The review of bronze finds from the excavations carried out in the contrada Gaggera sanctuaries from 1888 until 1925 as well as in the sixties and seventies of the last century, and the reading of old excavation notebooks have allowed the identification of a huge number of unpublished weapons. This evidence has also been considered in relation to what has been published by Ettore Gabrici in the 1927 edition of the Malophoros sanctuary. The study better clarifies the finding context of these materials (from the sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros or from the sacred area of Zeus Meilichios) and provides an overview of the different types of weapons. The most recurring objects turn out to be arrow…
Indagini nell'area ad ovest del Tempio della Vittoria ad Himera
2021
Himera: New investigations in the area West of the Tempio della Vittoria · The University of Palermo has started a new cycle of field investigations in the “lower town” of Himera, with the aim of answering some questions about the relationships between the Tempio della Vittoria, the residential districts, and the agora, that remained to be clarified after the important results produced by the studies on the urban development of the Greek city over the past forty years. This paper presents some initial results and research perspectives from the first excavation soundings and geophysical survey of 2021. The first findings strongly suggest that the agora extended much further south than previo…
Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Caltanissetta. Caltanissetta, Museo Archeologico: i rinvenimenti monetali dal santuario extramoen…
2004
The article is an in-depth study of the two hoards found in the service rooms of the extramoenia sanctuary of Sabucina, an anellenic center in the Sicilian hinterland. The occasion derives from the exhibition of the coins, for the first time, at the Archaeological Museum of Caltanissetta
Ricerche nel Santuario di Contrada Mango a Segesta
2022
Between June and July 2022, the University of Palermo started new feld investigations in the Contrada Mango sanctuary in Segesta, which, in the 1950s and 1960s, had brought to light a monumental temenos-terracing wall in isodomic technique and the remains of a Doric Severe-Style peripteral temple, largely spoliated at an unknown period. This paper presents some preliminary results of the new research that results from an intensive review and study of the documentation of the old excavations, which isabout to be published. The most important data acquired are the identifcation of the spoliation trench of the north side of the peristasis of the temple and the attribution of the foundations su…
Le armi dal santuario di contrada Mango a Segesta
2022
The research focuses on weapons coming from the extra-urban sanctuary of contrada Mango in Segesta, investigated between the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. The study illustrates the types and chronology of the »indigenous« and Greek weapons (mainly defensive) attested in the sanctuary, and clarifies and discusses the location of the finds (along the south, north and east peribolos walls). Finally, the research tries to understand the function and role of the weapons in the sacred area. This category of votives is also interpreted in the light of other findings from the sanctuary that refer to war, mainly some fragments of a Parian marble statue of Nike of the middle of the 5th cen…
Ricerche a Solunto (2022)
2023
New Investigations at Solunto (2022) ∙ The last fieldwork campaign in Solunto by the University of Palermo, in the sanctuary above the theatre and in the baths near the agora (the North Baths), obtained some relevant results concerning both the building sequences and the architectural configurations. In the sanctuary, a clearer picture is emerging of the oldest layout, dating from the 4th century B.C. (1st phase). After the first reshaping of the street grid and of the urban layout (2nd phase), in the second half of 2nd century B.C., an overall restyling (3rd phase) gave the whole sanctuary area an impressive organization into terraces linked through ramps and stairways. A striking feature,…
Il tesoro di Santa Venera ad Acireale
2017
Scientific study of the corpus of works that make up the treasure of Santa Venera in Acireale, the fruit of donations from Acireale's noble families, princes, knights and high prelates, at times specially commissioned and created as a concrete testimony of devotion to the patron saint.