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SUMMARY:The late Roman estate of Philippianus: recent excavations at Gerace near Enna (Sicily)
DESCRIPTION:Gerace is a Roman estate centre in the heart of Sicily which the speaker has been excavating since 2013. A substantial estate granary\, built c. 300 CE but violently destroyed\, probably by earthquake\, was succeeded by a compact Roman villa in the late fourth century\, which had been equipped with some mosaic pavements but appears unfinished. Ubiquitous tile-stamps recording the name of Philippianus indicate the identity of the estate owner at that time. Further up the hill a substantial freestanding bath-house\, built perhaps c. 380 CE\, was decorated with polychrome marble on the walls and geometric mosaics on the floors; but this structure was systematically stripped of its building materials (and the floors smashed) when the baths were decommissioned in the fifth century – an interesting example of Roman recycling. The one room with an intact floor was the cold room\, which had a unique mosaic design\, and an inscription around all four sides\, uniquely so in the Roman Empire. Among other things it gives us the property’s name – the praedia Philippianorum\, ‘the estate of the Philippiani’. The bath-house was badly damaged in a further earthquake in the second half of the fifth century\, and after a brief attempt to repair it the building was abandoned and filled in; the backfill contained many interesting finds\, including a series of chamber pots. The number of horse bones found at the site is greater than at any Roman site in the Mediterranean: so could there have been a stud farm at Gerace\, raising ponies for the circuses of the Roman world?
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-late-roman-estate-of-philippianus-recent-excavations-at-gerace-near-enna-sicily/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Megan Daniels":MAILTO:megan.daniels@ubc.ca
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