RT Journal Article
SR 00
A1 Corti, Cristina
A1 Rampazzi, Laura
A1 Visonà, Paolo
T1 Hellenistic Mortar and Plaster from Contrada Mella near Oppido Mamertina (Calabria, Italy)
JF International Journal of Conservation Science
YR 2016
FD 2016
IS 7
SP 57
OP 70
K1 Contrada Mella
K1 Hellenistic
K1 Tauriani
K1 Mortar
K1 Wall decoration
K1 archaeological heritage
K1 archaeological investigations
K1 arcaheological remains
K1 chemical analysis
K1 Italy
AB 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
SN 2067-8223
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1864/
UL http://www.ijcs.uaic.ro/index.html