Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2020

Publication Title

FOLD&R FastiOnLine Documents & Research

Issue

487

Pages

1-23

Abstract

In its fifth season, the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP) continued archaeological investigations inside the Southeast Building, a modestly-appointed house of Hellenistic date located near the western edge of the city. The 2016 CAP season had revealed the full extent of the property’s boundary walls and allowed us to propose a cohesive phasing scheme for the building’s construction, occupation, and abandonment. We suggested that the house was occupied for approximately 60-75 years, beginning in the second quarter of the third century BCE. The 2017 CAP excavations resolved a number of remaining questions, particularly those concerning the phasing of the boundary walls, the layout of interior spaces in the southern and eastern parts of the building, and the nature of domestic activities at different stages of the house’s occupation. This report describes the results of these excavations and pro-poses a new account of the building’s early development. The discovery of two large rotary millstones within the building raises the possibility that the occupants of the house may have specialized in the milling of grains and prompts us to re-name the building, “the House of the Two Mills”.

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Original Publication Citation

Tharler, A., Walthall, D. A., Wueste, E., Schirmer, C., Crowther, B., Benton, J., & Souza, R. (2020). Preliminary Report on the 2017 Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project. FOLD&R FastiOnLine Documents & Research (487), 1-23. http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-487.pdf

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