Formation et rôle des lieux de culte dans la proto-urbanisation du Latium et de l'Etrurie méridionale (XIe - VIIIe s. av. J.-C.) : l'area sacra du Palatin à Rome
(2011)
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- Cavalieri, Marco
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- (en) The area sacra of the Palatine hill in Rome is one of the oldest cultic areas of Rome, dating back to the town origins (8th c. BC). This concomitance between cultic presence and urban formation process (proto-urbanization) led us to assume the existence of correlation between them, which had to be checked as other questions. Indeed, it was proper to examine if such a situation was observable contemporaneously, or even previously, in other settlements of Rome peripheral areas, Latium vetus and South Etruria. If this correlation is proved elsewhere, it would be needed to establish which could be the impact of cultic places in the proto-urbanization of all these centres. As well as answers to these questions, this study aims to evaluate if the area sacra of the Palatine hill is indeed a unicum, as the excavators claim it. For these purposes, the study depends on a purely archaeological approach (free from any influence of mythic narratives) and by several site identification criteria. Among them, the criterion about the urban integration of cultic places in continuously inhabited settlements is fundamental. The study is articulated in three parts. The first one aims to reconstruct an overview of this Central Italy region from different angles: firstly, through a description of Etrusco-Latial communities regarding sociocultural and territorial conditions; then by an extensive analysis of several concepts inherent in the main research topic; finally, thanks to the study of hut urns, funerary material class in narrow relation to household and cultic spheres. The second part splits sites identified from established criteria: sacred areas in Rome, in Latium vetus and in South Etruria. Comparative tables gather all these data to make possible a direct confrontation between them, to draw first conclusions from it and to sketch the answers to the fundamental questions. Finally, the third part is dedicated to the study of cultic sites typologically similar in other regions, in Italy and in the Mediterranean: Umbria and Aegean. By the extraction of interpretative models and through different points of view, these comparisons help us to better understand Etrusco-Latial sacred areas.
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Piermarini, S. (2011). Formation et rôle des lieux de culte dans la proto-urbanisation du Latium et de l’Etrurie méridionale (XIe - VIIIe s. av. J.-C.) : l’area sacra du Palatin à Rome. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/96325