Architetture funerarie e reimpiego dell’antico a Teggiano

This paper focuses on funerary architectures of ancient Tegianum, a municipium of Roman Lucania. The current city of Teggiano has very few ancient monuments still visible but there is an extraordinary amount of spolia, reused in churches and city buildings. The analysis of these materials (i. e.: steles with Oscan and Latin inscriptions, doric friezes and coffered ceilings), although decontextualized, allows us to reconstruct the development of funerary use and architectures between the end of the 2nd Century BC and the early Imperial Age. In this perspective we discuss the cultural and artistic relationships between the lucanian municipium, the Greek cities of Southern Italy and Eastern Mediterranean, and the new cultural models dictated from Rome.