Tracing spaces at the Ara della Regina sanctuary of Tarquinia. Themes of urbanisation through geophysical research

Authors

Matilde Marzullo
Università degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3147-1636
Andrea Garzulino
Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9010-1662

Keywords:

Ancient topography, Geophysic, Tarquinia, Ara della Regina sanctuary

Synopsis

Only seven years after the publication of the excavations by P. Romanelli, which definitively confirmed the location of the ancient Etruscan city, in 1955, the operations of the technicians and engineers of the Ing. C.M. Lerici Foundation began at Tarquinia. They focused primarily on the tombs, but soon they also switched to the ancient town. The geophysical investigations at Civita started in 1964. Since then, works were carried out to systematically examine the entire plateau surface: the program was not always respected and suffered considerable obstacles, but, despite this, it continued until 1981. An incredible amount of data was collected through magnetometry, electrical measurements, core samples and surveys. Over time, additional georadar (ITABC - CNR) and gradiometry surveys (British School at Rome) were also performed as part of the CRC 'Tarquinia Project' directed by the University of Milan. Today the project is dealing with processing this huge amount of data for the publication of the Archaeological Map of the Civita di Tarquinia.

In light of the recent collaboration with the University of Verona, this work will use the area South-East of the Ara della Regina sanctuary as a pilot project. The volume will show that only with the comparative study of the results of different disciplines (from literary sources to archive research, from the excavation to the study of cartographic sources) through the optics of archaeology, topography, speleology, architecture, paleoanthropology, paleobotany, chemical-physics, assisted by information technology and ICT data management, it is possible to shed light below the ground and to lay the foundations for the overall study of the city and its development.

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Author Biographies

Matilde Marzullo, Università degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali

Matilde Marzullo obtained her PhD in Etruscology at the "Sapienza" University of Rome in 2014 and is currently a fixed-term researcher (type A) at the Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment of the University of Milan in the scientific disciplinary sector L-ANT/06 Etruscology and Italic Antiquities. Since 2009, she has been involved in the 'Tarquinia Project', founded by Maria Bonghi Jovino. Within the Coordinated Research Center "Tarquinia Project" of the University of Milan, founded by the latter and directed by Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni, she is responsible for the excavation site at the 'monumental complex' and has specific research areas in charge regarding the reconstruction of the historical profile of the ancient city and the necropolis. She is the author and co-author of publications related to both aspects and has to her credit the corpus of Tarquinian funerary painting (Marzullo 2016, 2017), researches about the fortified perimeter as well as the creation of the Archaeological Map of the Civita di Tarquinia.

 

Andrea Garzulino, Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani

Andrea Garzulino obtained his PhD in Architecture, Urban Planning, Preservation of Living Spaces and Landscape at the Politecnico di Milano in 2015 and is currently a fixed-term researcher (type A) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano in the scientific disciplinary sector ICAR/19 Restoration. Since 2009, he has been involved in research on the protection, preservation, and enhancement of architectural heritage, archaeological sites, and landscapes, in collaboration with public and private institutions, in Italy and abroad, with particular attention to advanced documentation and management issues for Cultural Heritage. He has participated in national and international conferences as a speaker on these topics and is the author of publications in scientific journals, conference proceedings, and books.

 

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Published

March 23, 2023

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979-12-5510-000-3

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