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Réf.

42752

Type

article

Titre

Hellenistic mortar and plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy)

Langues

English

Auteurs

Corti, Cristina / Rampazzi, Laura / Visonà, Paolo

Date

2016

Pages

p. 57-70

Titre de la revue

International Journal of Conservation Science

ISSN

2067-8223

Mots-clés

archaeological heritage / chemical analysis / history of archaeology / archaeological research / archaeological remains / mortar / Greek architecture / wall paintings / analysis of materials / archaeometry / microanalysis / mineralogical analysis / infrared analysis

Pays mentionnés

Italy

Monuments et sites

Oppido Mamertina , Calabria, Italy
Contrada Mella, Calabria, Italy

Résumé en anglais

Recent archaeological investigations conducted at contrada Mella, an alluvial terrace nea rOppido Mamertina, in southwestern Calabria, have uncovered the remains of a town that was settled by the Tauriani, an Italic people, between the third and the first centuries BC. A uniquedeposit excavated in 1990 and 1992 yielded numerous fragments of mortar and painted plaster associated with Hellenistic pottery and other cultural materials. Chemical analyses of samplesof these fragments, point to the use of aerial mortars with hematite and calcite as pigments. The characteristics of the mortar and painted plaster found at contrada Mella are comparableto those of similar materials from Locri Epizephyrii, the closest Greek city on the Ionian coast of Italy, and from Hellenistic sites in Calabria and Sicily. They provide new evidence forinterior decoration from the houses of the Tauriani.

URL

http://www.ijcs.uaic.ro/index.html

Document joint

Hellenistic Mortar and Plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy).pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)