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This paper focusses on the archaeometric investigation of wall paintings of the St. Maria Veterana archaeological site in Triggiano (Bari, Southern Italy) finalised to support the hypothesis on the historical reconstruction of the site based on iconographic interpretations. The site is an original and relevant example of medieval art in Apulia and in Southern Italy and includes a medieval church surrounded by several additionally architectural elements (chapels, crypts, tombs), nowadays buried below by a Renaissance church. Here, the presence of different pictorial cycles, only partially dated, and the evidence of re-use of painted blocks in Renaissance structures pertaining to medieval structures, suggested a complex scenario in which different artisans and clients were possibly succeeded. The site is also framed in a wider regional context, the Apulian region, currently object of an intense archaeological and scientific debate due to widespread action of valorisation of the cultural patrimony as an essential link between the territory and the cultural identity of the citizens.