Archaeologists excavating at the Domus Aemilia archaeological site almost Tassignano, inwards the Tuscan tell of Lucca, bring discovered the well-preserved skeleton of a dog, apparently sacrificial offering, dating to the foundation of the edifice betwixt the minute too foremost century BC.
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| Credit: Comune di Capannori |
"The construction of buildings or settlements, inwards fact, obeyed magical-religious prescriptions fifty-fifty earlier edifice began: these provided for the sacrifice of dogs too their ritual deposition, which tin locomote explained both for its purifying occupation every bit good every bit its protective aspect. Although known primarily from written sources, this rite has been hard to document exactly because of the detail seat too place of the offerings beneath structures", the archeologist added.
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| Credit: Comune di Capannori |
In particular, an surface area straightaway due south of the balneum, which seems to bring been used for H2O heating, was besides surveyed. The investigations inwards this area, although non completed, bring likewise allowed for the documentation of pre-existing structures destroyed inwards belatedly antiquity.
The history of this site thus spans at to the lowest degree 5 centuries, starting fourth dimension amongst a domus built along the banks of the river Auser, at the fourth dimension of the foremost Roman colonization of the acre of Lucca (180 BC) too later on refurbished inwards the 1st-2nd centuries AD, continuing inwards occupation until a woman someone burial - named Aemilia (from which the domus gets it name) - marked the cease of its residential occupation inwards favour of its occupation every bit a cemetery inwards belatedly antiquity (4th-5th centuries).
Source: Repubblica [September 04, 2018]
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