Scoperta di un piccolo periptero dorico di primo V sec. a.C. nel quartiere nord-occidentale di Paestum: nota preliminare

www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-475.pdfThe Journal of Fasti Online (ISSN 1828-3179) ● Published by the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica ●Palazzo Altemps, Via Sant’Appolinare 8–00186 Roma ● Tel. / Fax: ++39.06.67.98.798 ● http://www.aiac.org; http://www.fastionline.orgScoperta di un piccolo periptero dorico di primo V sec. a.C. nel quartiere nord-occidentale di Paestum: nota preliminareGabriel Zuchtriegel1, Enzo Rizzo2,3, Francesco Soldovieri4, Luigi Capozzoli2, Ilaria Cata-pano4, Gregory De Martino2, Giovanni Ludeno4, Gianluca Gennarelli4, Francesco Uliano Scelza1, Cristiano Benedetto De Vita5, Ottavia Voza61Parco Archeologico di Paestum e Velia, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo2CNR-IMAA, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale, Tito (PZ)3Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Ferrara4CNR-IREA, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente, Napoli5Dottore Archeologo6Architetto professionistaThe paper discusses the discovery of a small Doric temple dating from the early fifth century BC in Paestum, southern Italy. Surface finds belonging to the temple were first noted in 2019 during restauration work on the ancient city walls of Pae-stum. Analysis of aerial imagery and geophysical prospection has made it possible to locate the site of temple in the north-west quarter of the ancient city near the fortification wall. The area is currently under excavation. The present paper sum-marizes what we know so far based on prospection data and on more than 230 fragments that can be attributed to the temple, including fragments of the stylobate, columns, capitals, architrave, frieze, geison and sima. The temple, which ap-pears to have been a small peripteros with 4 x 7 columns, shedsnew light on the development of Doric architecture and building techniques in Paestum between the Archaic and the early Classical period