Merci e modelli culturali in movimento tra Cerveteri e Roma in età arcaica e repubblicana. Una breve nota

The research conducted by Sapienza - University of Rome in the Colosseum Valley and on the nearby slopes of the Palatine hill has yelded important data on the exchange network in which the city of Rome was involved between the Iron Age and the end of Antiquity (and beyond). The stratigraphy and archaeological contexts related to two ancient sanctuaries (including that of the Curiae Veteres), a complex road network, and an aristocratic residence have enabled the identification of some groups of artifacts such as decorated braziers, fine wares, amphorae - that, based in their technological, morphological, and decorative features, appear to have been produced in the nearby center of Cerveteri. These materials, dating from the 6th to the 4th c. BCE, represent - along side imports from the Aegean region (particularly Attica) - some of the few documented foreign goods in the city during this period. Connections between the two centers have been known since antiquity and continued over time, as demonstrated by the fact that during the Gallic sack of the early 4th c. BCE, Rome’s most sacred objects were received and safeguarded in Caere.