Ricerche sull’organizzazione dell’abitato brezio e romano di Pian della Tirena

Within the PRIN 2009 project, an interdisciplinary research program was started at Pian della Tirena (Nocera Terinese, CZ), probably to be identified as the Brettian Temesa site. The project is aimed to analyze the articulation of the inhabited area and its projection in the territory, through some survey, archaeological, geophysical, paleo-environmental analysis. The results of the geophysical researches allowed us to discover a new area of the ancient settlement, characterized by a strip of a road (Street 2) on which a residential building is located. The Street 2 is an orthogonal plateia to the Street 1, a stenopos explored in the eighties of the twentieth century. It was possible to archaeologically demonstrate that the urban plan of Pian della Tirena is organized on an orthogonal road system. Both the building and the road present a series of phases that involved all the life of the settlement, between the second half of the 4th and the end of the 3rd century BC. Another new element is related to the dating of the last two phases of the Street 2 from the beginning of the 2nd century BC. These building activities are the oldest traces concerning the Roman settlement that could be recognized as the colonia maritima of Tempsa (194 BC).