Depositi Votivi del Lazio Meridionale

The book aims to take stock of the knowledge and perspectives of study on places of worship in southern Lazio between the first Iron Age and the beginning of the fifth century BC. The analysis of votive deposits, or in any case of isolated findings of a votive nature, has highlighted a picture of considerable interest that makes it possible to reason on an archaeology of the sacred not only for the southern coastal Lazio, a better known and investigated area - just think of Satricum - but also for the inland area, especially for the areas that gravitate on the river system Sacco-Liri natural way of communication between Etruria, Latium Vetus and Campania, as an alternative, and in addition, the coastal route through the Pontine plain. This system was integrated by a series of transversal axes, linked to the transhumance routes, which constituted since the protohistoric age the connections between the Apennines and the coastal area. This is a geographical-cultural sector of considerable importance in pre-Roman Italy, characterized by a complex picture of population dynamics, subject to possible different readings between Latins, Volscians and Romans.