Extensive archaeological investigations conducted in the inner city of Heraclea in Lucania (now Policoro), especially in recent decades, document the severity of the crisis that has hit the center from the first century B.C. During the imperial period only one sector of the city occupation of only a few acres persists with survival even more limited in III-V AD. This situation is accompanied by a good vitality of agro production facilities, also recorded by archaeological research. In CIL X, except for the reference to the Tables of Heraclea, no other inscription is attributed to the center of Lucania. In the reports of the excavations of the last fifty years sporadic recoveries of modest Latin funerary inscriptions are found: eight inscriptions, hitherto unpublished, are exhibited in an atrium of the ‘Museo della Siritide di Policoro’; a ninth is kept in a storage. The aim of this paper is to test the contribution of these inscriptions in the context of crisis outlined.
La crisi di Heraclea di Lucania e l'epigrafia
SILVESTRINI, Marina
2012-01-01
Abstract
Extensive archaeological investigations conducted in the inner city of Heraclea in Lucania (now Policoro), especially in recent decades, document the severity of the crisis that has hit the center from the first century B.C. During the imperial period only one sector of the city occupation of only a few acres persists with survival even more limited in III-V AD. This situation is accompanied by a good vitality of agro production facilities, also recorded by archaeological research. In CIL X, except for the reference to the Tables of Heraclea, no other inscription is attributed to the center of Lucania. In the reports of the excavations of the last fifty years sporadic recoveries of modest Latin funerary inscriptions are found: eight inscriptions, hitherto unpublished, are exhibited in an atrium of the ‘Museo della Siritide di Policoro’; a ninth is kept in a storage. The aim of this paper is to test the contribution of these inscriptions in the context of crisis outlined.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.