After the Fall: Caere after 273 B.C.E.

Fabio Colivicchi

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After the Fall: Caere after 273 B.C.E.

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Abstract

At the end of a long history of increasingly close relationships with her neighbor, the Etruscan city of Caere became a sort of “satellite state” of Rome and was eventually transformed into a praefectura in 273 B.C.E. Historians have focused on the institutional aspect of the process, with the progressive “softening” of the political frontier between the two cities through the ciuitas sine suffragio, which paved the way for eventual assimilation. Archaeologists have considered this event as the end of the glorious history of Etruscan Caere. New evidence from Queen’s University’s ongoing excavation at Vigna Marini, however, demonstrates that the third century B.C.E. was a period of especially intense building activity, probably even of large-scale renovation of this sector of the urban area. The re-evaluation of the evidence from other archaeological contexts of Caere confirms the new data and contributes to serious questioning of the traditional narrative.

Keywords: Caere; Etruscan archaeology; Roman Imperialism; Material culture; continuity and change

Acknowledgements

The Queen’s project at Vigna Marini was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Zooarchaeological research was made possible by the Etruscan Foundation and the British School at Rome. The authors would like to thank the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale, and especially the Soprintendente Dr. Alfonsina Russo, Dr. Rita Cosentino and Sandro Dello Russo for their support.

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Caere; Etruscan archaeology; Roman Imperialism; Material culture; continuity and change