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Il Santuario di Artemis Orthia, situato a Est della moderna città di Sparta, è stato oggetto di una ricerca di dottorato svolta presso l’Università degli Studi di Salerno e la Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. L’analisi è incentrata... more
Il Santuario di Artemis Orthia, situato a Est della moderna città di Sparta, è stato oggetto di una ricerca di dottorato svolta presso l’Università degli Studi di Salerno e la Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. L’analisi è incentrata sullo studio sistematico di tutta la documentazione edita e inedita relativa alle indagini archeologiche condotte tra il 1905 e il 1910 dalla British School di Atene nell’area del santuario di Artemis Orthia. Lo studio ha avuto l’obiettivo di chiarificare e articolare le fasi arcaiche del santuario ubicate al di sotto di uno strato di sabbia e ghiaia che oblitera l’intera area sacra agli inizi del VI secolo a.C. Il riesame dei dati di scavo pubblicati tra il 1905 e il 1910 negli Annali della British School at Athens e da R.M. Dawkins et Alii nel 1929; la revisione del materiale ceramico edito e inedito conservato nei depositi del Museo Archeologico di Sparta; la lettura e l'analisi critica dei documenti d'archivio inediti, conservati presso la British School at Athens, hanno consentito una analisi intrecciata e la messa a sistema di tutte le informazioni estrapolate dai taccuini, dalla documentazione grafica e dei dati ricavati dal lavoro condotto nel magazzino del museo di Sparta. Tali dati inducono ad avanzare alcune puntualizzazioni relative alle fasi di vita più antiche del santuario di Artemis Orthia e precisamente a quelle inquadrabili tra l’VIII e il VI sec. a.C., momento in cui la costruzione di un nuovo tempio segna una profonda trasformazione dell’area. Particolare riguardo sarà dedicato all’estensione dell’area sacra e alla presenza di tracce di strutture contestualizzabili in un arco cronologico compreso tra la fine del IX e gli inizi dell’VIII sec. a.C., momento in cui è possibile inquadrare le più antiche tracce di frequentazione nel santuario di Artemis Orthia a Sparta.
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During the last excavation in the nuragic settlement of Sant’Imbenia (Alghero) it was found an important hoard containing 42 bronze and copper elements. The archeological complex of Sant’Imbenia is located in the territory of Alghero, in... more
During the last excavation in the nuragic settlement of Sant’Imbenia (Alghero) it was found an important hoard containing 42 bronze and copper elements.
The archeological complex of Sant’Imbenia is located in the territory of Alghero, in the internal part of Porto Conte’s bay, very close to the sea shore. The position was chosen in order to control the natural harbor, that with the natural resources in the surroundings (copper, iron, silver deposits, pastures, cultivable land) made the village a strategic and favored centre, in contact with different zones of the Mediterranean sea (Aegean sea, Iberian Peninsula, Levantine centers, Phoenician colonies, Tyrrhenian area).
The material evidences proof, at least from the IX century a.C., that relationship with foreign people, that met, traded, and stayed together in the nuragic village, as it seems to be with the Phoenician.
The excavations of the last three years discovered new parts of the village, as housing structures, and a big public space, paved with stone slabs, a sort of square where face the entrances of many buildings.
The hoard was found hidden in the floor of an elliptical building, that overlooks the paved square.
It was contained in a vase, closed by a circular shale stone slab, buried in a pit close to the walls of the structure.
The vase is an ovoid dolium of medium size, with flared rim, convex bottom and with three decorative “X” handles. It has not many comparison elements in the nuragic pottery repertory, but the type of the handles is well know among nuragic pottery productions of the Iron age.
The vase contained a complex weight of 41,239 Kg of metal: a Monte Sa Idda type bronze sword, 8 raised margins bronze axes, 14 circular copper ingots and 19 copper ingots fragments.
The sword, that has its main comparison in Southern Spain, is fragmented, most of the blade is missing.
The raised margins axes are represented in different shapes and sizes, all recognizable among the main varieties known in Sardinia during the Final Bronze age and the beginning of Iron Age.
The ingots are quite all circular, divided in different types: plano-convex, biconvex and flat. Most of them are fragmented. They are common types during the whole Bronze Age and the beginning of Iron Age.
From the study of the vase and its content it can be assumed that the hoard was buried around the middle of the VIII century a.C.
The archeological complex of Sant’Imbenia is located in the territory of Alghero, in the internal part of Porto Conte’s bay, very close to the sea shore. The position was chosen in order to control the natural harbor, that with the natural resources in the surroundings (copper, iron, silver deposits, pastures, cultivable land) made the village a strategic and favored centre, in contact with different zones of the Mediterranean sea (Aegean sea, Iberian Peninsula, Levantine centers, Phoenician colonies, Tyrrhenian area).
The material evidences proof, at least from the IX century a.C., that relationship with foreign people, that met, traded, and stayed together in the nuragic village, as it seems to be with the Phoenician.
The excavations of the last three years discovered new parts of the village, as housing structures, and a big public space, paved with stone slabs, a sort of square where face the entrances of many buildings.
The hoard was found hidden in the floor of an elliptical building, that overlooks the paved square.
It was contained in a vase, closed by a circular shale stone slab, buried in a pit close to the walls of the structure.
The vase is an ovoid dolium of medium size, with flared rim, convex bottom and with three decorative “X” handles. It has not many comparison elements in the nuragic pottery repertory, but the type of the handles is well know among nuragic pottery productions of the Iron age.
The vase contained a complex weight of 41,239 Kg of metal: a Monte Sa Idda type bronze sword, 8 raised margins bronze axes, 14 circular copper ingots and 19 copper ingots fragments.
The sword, that has its main comparison in Southern Spain, is fragmented, most of the blade is missing.
The raised margins axes are represented in different shapes and sizes, all recognizable among the main varieties known in Sardinia during the Final Bronze age and the beginning of Iron Age.
The ingots are quite all circular, divided in different types: plano-convex, biconvex and flat. Most of them are fragmented. They are common types during the whole Bronze Age and the beginning of Iron Age.
From the study of the vase and its content it can be assumed that the hoard was buried around the middle of the VIII century a.C.