Nuove indagini archeologiche nella necropoli enotria di loc. Raia (Anzi, PZ)

Within the archaeological project “Ritorno ad Anxia” (UniBas – DiSU), in July 2021 a new excavation campaign was carried out in the Oenotrian necropolis of Raia (Anzi, PZ), whose preliminary report we intend to discuss in this article. The site had been identified in 2001, when four 6th century B.C. burials were excavated by the SABAP- Bas. Not so far from these findings, recent researches brought to light another sector of the necropolis, whose stratigraphy is shattered in the eastern part, perhaps due to an ancient landslide. Two male tombs have been identified, instead, in the westernmost part. The first one, covered by a tumulus, belonged to a sub-adult and showed a particular deposition ritual: the funerary set, datable to the first half of the 6th century B.C., was placed within circles of stones near the skeleton, like an iron spearhead and three matt-painted vases. The Tomb 2 belonged to an adult male, with a considerable funerary equipment, consisting in an iron javelin and about ten locally made and imported vases, which can be dated to the third quarter of the 6th century B.C.