INTERAMNA LIRENAS PROJECT (COMUNE DI PIGNATARO INTERAMNA, PROVINCIA DI FROSINONE, REGIONE LAZIO)

Abstract

Since 2010 the Interamna Lirenas Project has contributed to hugely expand and fundamentally change our understanding of the development of Interamna Lirenas (and its territory), from its foundation as a Latin colony (312 BC) until its definitive abandonment towards the end of the 6th century AD (Launaro 2019, 2023; Launaro and Millett 2023). This project has been deploying a wide range of archaeological approaches (geophysical prospection, field survey, excavation) in order to map how this community may have changed and adapted in response to the broader transformations affecting this part of Italy specifically – and the Roman world more generally. Interamna Lirenas indeed offers an ideal case-study: the full (and quite detailed) plan of the town is now largely known thanks to several seasons of geophysical prospection (magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar: Launaro and Millett 2023); the thorough and timely study of the local/regional material culture (commonware pottery specifically) has made it possible to reliably document all periods, including those which would have been otherwise largely under-represented (Launaro and Leone 2018).