http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1864/ Hellenistic Mortar and Plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy) Recent archaeological investigations conducted at contrada Mella, an alluvial terrace near Oppido Mamertina, in southwestern Calabria, have uncovered the remains of a town that was settled by the Tauriani, an Italic people, between the third and the first centuries BC. A unique deposit excavated in 1990 and 1992 yielded numerous fragments of mortar and painted plaster associated with Hellenistic pottery and other cultural materials. Chemical analyses of samples of these fragments, point to the use of aerial mortars with hematite and calcite as pigments. The characteristics of the mortar and painted plaster found at contrada Mella are comparable to those of similar materials from Locri Epizephyrii, the closest Greek city on the Ionian coast of Italy, and from Hellenistic sites in Calabria and Sicily. They provide new evidence for interior decoration from the houses of the Tauriani Corti, Cristina Rampazzi, Laura Visonà, Paolo A05 B02 F06 F09 F28 F34 F35 P05 Hellenistic Mortar and Plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy) 2018-02-12T12:41:00Z Corti, Cristina et Rampazzi, Laura et Visonà, Paolo (2016) Hellenistic Mortar and Plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy). International Journal of Conservation Science (7). p. 57-70. ISSN 2067-8223 [Article] application/pdf