Selinunte, Italy. A New Model for the City. Field Report on the 2022 to 2023 Seasons

Résumé

This is the second field report of a collaborative project funded by the German Research Foundation in Selinunte, Sicily, since 2021. It aims to enhance our knowledge of the city’s layout, its structural transformations through time, as well as its historical, functional, and societal causes. A variety of methods are applied to investigate parts of the city that have until now received less attention. Geophysical prospecting, geological coring, a surface survey, stratigraphic excavations, archaeobotanical analysis, and a wide range of material studies were carried out over three field seasons by the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute, the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, the University of Palermo, and various collaborators in close consultation with the authorities of the Archaeological Park of Selinunte, Cave di Cusa, and Pantelleria.