The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

— chapter i 6: Etruscans in Campania —

Figure 16.6 Capua. 1. Necropolis and settlement; 2. Necropolis of the Nuovo Mattatoio: selection of

grave goods of the First Iron Age.

Figure 16 .7 1. The “Campanian system.” 1. Pompeii: decorative system of Archaic Temple of Apollo;

2. Capua: antefix with female head; 3. Fratte: Male head in terracotta from a cult statue (Zeus?).

The Archaic period is a time of the maximum flowering of Capua celebrated in the ancient
sources as the axis of Campania together with Cumae, with which it shows inseparable
bonds in this phase, documented above all by the development and the diffusion of the
“Campanian system” in public building programs (Fig. 16.7).
The exploration of a residential area, which was recently brought to light at the eastern
edge of the settlement (loc. “Siepone” ; Cerchiai 2010), centered on a non-orthogonal
system of axial streets with dwellings made of tufa foundations and elevations in
mudbricks, with hearths and drainage channels, has furnished fundamental information
for the understanding of the pre-Roman settlement that was otherwise particularly
lacking. The urban and territorial planning of the Archaic period is accompanied by the
monumentalization of the public spaces, first of all the sanctuaries. A decisive contribution

Limiti dell’abitato antico

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