The northwest necropolis of Satricum : an iron age cemetery in Latium vetus / Demetrius J. Waarsenburg.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Waarsenburg, Demetrius J., 1964-

Series:

Scrinium 0929-6980 ; v. 8.

Satricum ; v. 3.

Scrinium, 0929-6980 ; v. 8

Satricum ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Satricum (Lazio : Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Tombs.

Italy--Satricum (Extinct city).

Iron age--Italy--Satricum (Lazio : Extinct city).

Iron age.

Tombs--Italy--Satricum (Lazio : Extinct city).

Satricum (Lazio, Italy : Extinct city).

Italy--Antiquities.

Italy.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xv, 559 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Thesis Publishers, 1995.

Summary:

This book presents the results of the excavation campaigns, which were conducted almost a century ago in the Northwest Necropolis of Satricum (Borgo Le Ferriere, Latium). Between 1896 and 1898 Italian excavators exposed a series of tombs dating from the Iron Age to the Orientalising period. The finds remained unknown until the 1970s, when renewed interest in Latial protohistory brought about a first reappraisal of the Satrican evidence. Considerable parts of ancient Satricum and its necropolis, which had remained virtually intact up to the 1960s, were now being destroyed by agricultural activities. This study provides an extensive analysis and description of this material. The cemetery as a whole documents Satricum's rise and growth in the centuries preceding the Archaic period. It sheds a new and surprisingly detailed light on how a modest Iron Age village rapidly developed into one of the most potent cities in the Latial plain.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Amsterdam, 1993).Preliminary ed. published 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-559) and index.

ISBN:

9051702949

OCLC:

34013503