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CENTURIATED LUCERIA: A LATIN COLONY AND ITS TERRITORY

Papers of the British School at Rome, 2021-10, Vol.89, p.41-100 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © British School at Rome 2021 ;ISSN: 0068-2462 ;EISSN: 2045-239X ;DOI: 10.1017/S0068246221000027

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  • Title:
    CENTURIATED LUCERIA: A LATIN COLONY AND ITS TERRITORY
  • Author: Kim, Yeong-chei
  • Subjects: 2nd century ; Archaeology ; Ceramics ; Excavation ; Field study ; Museums
  • Is Part Of: Papers of the British School at Rome, 2021-10, Vol.89, p.41-100
  • Description: The extensive traces of Roman centuriation and its associated farms identified from aerial photographs near Lucera, ancient Luceria, in the plain of northern Apulia, have generally been attributed to the Gracchan agrarian reforms of the 130s/120s BC. However, the dating of these land divisions, on the basis of the excavation of the farms and centuriation roads by John Bradford and Barri Jones in 1949–50 and 1962–3, is of questionable reliability, and their work at Luceria was never properly published. This study reanalyses the scattered records and dating evidence from the excavation of seven farms of Bradford and Jones and three other sites surveyed by Bradford in the ager Lucerinus. This study argues that the farms and associated grids belong to Rome's establishment of a Latin colony at Luceria in 326 or 315/314 BC during the Second Samnite War, and that the farms were abandoned due to the Hannibalic War. This study therefore presents the earliest certain Roman centuriation for a colony, and it observes the devastating impact of Hannibal's invasion and prolonged occupation on landholding in southeastern Italy, which has been doubted in recent work on Italian agrarian history. In no other part of Italy does there exist a coherent group of nearby excavated small-scale farms, which provides new insight into Roman colonization in Apulia and the consequences of the Hannibalic War.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English;Italian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0068-2462
    EISSN: 2045-239X
    DOI: 10.1017/S0068246221000027
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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