Strutture pubbliche e luoghi della politica alle origini della città. Un Campo Marzio nella Felsina villanoviana?
In: Archeologia Classica: 64, 2013
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The most recent excavations in Bologna attest to the synoecistic process that led to the
formation of Felsina around the mid-eighth century BC entailing a series of public projects
on a very large scale, carefully planned and exhibiting a unified and indeed truly urban
concept of settlement.
Among the works carried out then and for which we have archaeological evidence, there are various hydraulic infrastructures laid to prepare the area of settlement, a composite defensive wall with wooden roofing and moats delimiting the settlement
and a monumental built-up area with terracing raised outside the pomerium. In this complex
there seems to have been an area used for the political assemblies of the populus, in many
respects comparable with the earlier Saepta of Rome, which prompts some considerations on
the possible social and institutional organisation of Villanovan Felsina.