The Roman Colony of Cosa (Ansedonia, GR / Italy) as a Mercantile Center

罗马殖民地科萨（意大利安塞多尼亚）作为商业中心

• 批准号: 500759416
• 负责人: Dr. Maximilian Felix Rönnberg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Klassische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/500759416?language=en
• 关键词: Roman; Colony; Cosa; Ansedonia; GR

Much research has already been done on the Latin colony of Cosa (in modern Ansedonia, Italy), established in 273 BCE, in a series of mostly American excavation projects. Thus, the city could become something like a model case of a Roman foundation. So far, the investigations focused on the public buildings surrounding the forum, important sanctuaries, the baths and selected domestic buildings; the nearby harbor has also been systematically analyzed. The geophysical prospections carried out in 2013–2018, though, show that the city was not entirely built up. It thus should not be interpreted as a large focus of population, but rather as the political, religious and economic center of the region with a large catchment area, but a small number of residents. The urban infrastructure was most probably used mainly by those living nearby on villas and farmsteads. Still largely unknown, though, remain the mercantile spaces the city will have offered its hinterland (which, as a matter of fact, is also rather well explored). The project here applied for proposes multiple soundings in two areas of the city: One focus will be a building so far taken as a storehouse, but to this point only investigated superficially. The other one is a square discovered in the geophysical prospections, which may be interpreted as a market area due to its form and position. The excavations will clarify the dating, shape and diachronic development of both constructions and hence shed light on the mercantile infrastructure of the colony; the integration of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological analyses will furthermore allow conclusions on ancient dietary habits. This will fill important gaps in the knowledge of the town. Above all, excavations in these two selected buildings in the city and the evaluation of the archaeological data known from its hinterland within the applicant’s own position make an economical contextualization of Cosa within its surroundings possible. The results reached on the market function of the colony may then be contrasted with similar, but mostly less well-known cities. The project proposed thus constitutes an archaeological case study on economical processes in Middle to Late Republican and Imperial Central Italy, which uses the well-known city of Cosa and its environs as a starting point but promises much more extensive outcomes. The schedule of three excavation campaigns and a find-processing campaign and the applicant’s own position allow the – at least more or less ready for print – completion of the project’s final publication at the end of the third year of funding. Fieldwork will be carried out in cooperation with the current American project at the site (excavating the baths).

在公元前273年建立的拉丁殖民地科萨（位于现在的意大利安塞多尼亚），已经进行了大量的研究，主要是在美国的一系列挖掘项目中。因此，这座城市可以成为罗马基础的典范。到目前为止，调查主要集中在论坛周围的公共建筑，重要的避难所，浴室和选定的家庭建筑；附近的港口也进行了系统的分析。然而，2013-2018年进行的地球物理勘探表明，这座城市并没有完全建成。因此，它不应被解释为人口的大焦点，而应被解释为集水区面积大，但居民数量少的地区的政治、宗教和经济中心。城市的基础设施很可能主要由住在附近别墅和农庄上的人使用。然而，这座城市将为其腹地提供的商业空间（事实上，这一领域也得到了相当充分的探索）在很大程度上仍是未知的。这里申请的项目在城市的两个区域提出了多次探测：一个重点将是一个迄今为止被视为仓库的建筑，但到目前为止只进行了表面调查。另一个是在地球物理勘探中发现的广场，根据其形式和位置可以解释为市场区域。发掘工作将厘清两座建筑的年代、形状和历时发展，从而揭示殖民地的商业基础设施；考古植物学和考古动物学分析的结合将进一步得出古代饮食习惯的结论。这将填补这个城镇知识的重要空白。最重要的是，对城市中这两座选定建筑的挖掘，以及对申请人所在地区腹地已知的考古数据的评估，使科萨在其周围环境中的经济背景成为可能。由此得出的关于殖民地市场功能的结果，可以与类似但大多不太知名的城市进行对比。因此，提出的项目构成了对意大利中晚期共和国和帝国中部经济过程的考古案例研究，该项目以著名的科萨市及其周边地区为起点，但承诺更广泛的结果。三次发掘活动和一次发掘处理活动的日程安排以及申请人本人的情况允许在资助的第三年结束时完成项目的最后出版- -至少或多或少准备好印刷。现场工作将与目前在现场的美国项目（挖掘浴池）合作进行。