Vesti per la Dea dall'Edificio quadrato nel Santuario di Hera alla foce del Sele (Paestum)

The Square Building is one of the most interesting archaeological contexts discovered in the Sanctuary of Hera near the mouth of the Sele River. It has long been a source of inspiration for scholarly reflection and academic debate. The present article has two objectives. Firstly, it seeks to contribute to the ongoing recontextualisation of all the monuments in the sanctuary on the basis of archive documents and materials for which no description has yet been published. Regarding the Square Building in particular, the two deposits found during the excavations begun by Paola Zancani in the 1950s are of special relevance. The second objective is to use new methods to investigate the many loom weights found in the building, in order to enrich the scientific debate and verify the various hypotheses concerning the function of this peculiar building.