Roman and post-Roman catacombs are a very characteristic element of cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean, and valuable heritage sites. In the province of Ragusa, in south-eastern Sicily, are known hundreds of graves distributed in many catacombs, all hollowed out in the ubiquitous calcareous rock-faces and outcrops of the region. The research project, still in the organizational phase, intends to pursue continued stratigraphic excavations and systematic surface surveys at a number of remarkable sites of the 4th-6th centuries AD, such as the catacombs of Scorrione near Modica. The project will address the relation between the catacombs and the surrounding landscape and a number of social, economical and craftsmanship issues.
Project partner: State Agency for Environmental and Archaeological Heritage, Ragusa (Annamaria Sammito).
CONTACT
Dr. Joan Pinar Gil
e. jpinarg@msn.com
