Enlightening Diana Umbronensis, The Late Antique Lamp Assemblage from the Sanctuary at Scoglietto (Alberese - IT)
Abstract
This articles describes the lamp assemblage recovered during the excavations at the Roman Sanctuary and Temple Area of Diana Um-bronensis at Scoglietto (Alberese, Italy). The investigations carried out at the settlement revealed a series of Late Antique lamps, which were part of the latest votive deposits at the temple.
However, as it appears clear from the assemblage here described, the worship of Diana continued also after the systematic destruction of the religious area in the late 4th c. AD.
The presence of late 4th to mid 5th c. AD lamps on top of the ruins of the temple witnesses how local population (and possibly foreign travellers) did not abandon pagan ceremonies during the first decades of Christianity.
However, the area was definitely abandoned during the mid 5th c. AD only to be reused a century later, when a sunken-hut was built with timber infrastructures above the podium of the Severan temple.