Abstract:This report details excavations carried at at the site of Poggio Civitate and Vescovado di Murlo during the 2016 excavation campaign. Work both clarified aspects of the form and date of a monumental palazzo originally revealed during the previous season’s excavation and also clarified the architectural details of a small, later, potentially domestic structure located within the earlier building’s confines. Excavation at the associated site of Vescovado di Murlo revealed the presence of a significant defensive … Show more
“…The Archaic structures of the site were dismantled between 550 and 535 BC for reasons yet unknown 6 . In 2015, evidence of an earlier phase of monumental building immediately west of Piano del Tesoro came to light, consisting of the remains of a rectangular structure (EPOC4), which according to the excavators was built within the first quarter of the seventh century BC (Tuck et al, 2017). Fig.…”
Section: Poggio Civitate and Poggio Aguzzo DI Murlomentioning
This paper discusses some of the insights that have been gained from the study of the textile tools from the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Civitate di Murlo and coeval textiles recovered from the adjacent cemetery site of Poggio Aguzzo di Murlo. Over 1,600 textile tools (including spindle whorls, loom weights, and spools) are analysed from a functional perspective, and results suggest that the textiles found in burials were likely produced at the site. This new information is discussed in light of other subsistence and craft activities documented at the settlement, all of which indicate an inward-oriented economy that catered to the local elites and the populations they controlled.
“…The Archaic structures of the site were dismantled between 550 and 535 BC for reasons yet unknown 6 . In 2015, evidence of an earlier phase of monumental building immediately west of Piano del Tesoro came to light, consisting of the remains of a rectangular structure (EPOC4), which according to the excavators was built within the first quarter of the seventh century BC (Tuck et al, 2017). Fig.…”
Section: Poggio Civitate and Poggio Aguzzo DI Murlomentioning
This paper discusses some of the insights that have been gained from the study of the textile tools from the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Civitate di Murlo and coeval textiles recovered from the adjacent cemetery site of Poggio Aguzzo di Murlo. Over 1,600 textile tools (including spindle whorls, loom weights, and spools) are analysed from a functional perspective, and results suggest that the textiles found in burials were likely produced at the site. This new information is discussed in light of other subsistence and craft activities documented at the settlement, all of which indicate an inward-oriented economy that catered to the local elites and the populations they controlled.
The unique workshop excavated at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) contained elements of a terracotta roof in the process of production (Roof 2–22 [Winter 2009]). The conflagration that destroyed the buildings on the plateau at the beginning of the sixth century B. C. E. in effect fired the raw clay elements, which were lying on the workshop floor in the shade of the roof to dry before firing. No building under construction has previously been identified as the planned home for this roof. Possible candidates can now be proposed, buildings which show no evidence of being finished to the point of having a tiled roof or of having objects in the interior that would represent use levels.
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