Materiali da Anzi al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: un Addendum

Between the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century, Anzi (PZ), a small village situated in the inner part of Basilicata, played a key role in Southern Italy’s archaeology. During that time, this relevant Lucanian site experienced a thriving archaeological phase with massif excavations and trade of antiquities, which led to the dispersion of a huge number of ancient artifact (mostly figured pottery) across public and private collections worldwide. A smaller quantity of them, instead, was gathered into the holdings of the Real Museo Borbonico. Within the Neapolitan Museum’s old funds, a corpus of 46 pieces definitively from Anzi has been recently (2021) identified, studied and published under the aegis of the Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Basilicata. In addition, seven more Italiote vases have been discovered through repository rearrangements made in the last two years. The analysis, interpretation, and re-contextualization of these findings constitute the main matter of this article, conceived as an addendum to the previous research conducted by the Lucanian Athenaeum. The aim is to further enhance our knowledge of Anzi’s archaeological heritage within the broader framework of ancient Lucania.