MIGLIONICO
Basilicata, Italy.
A region of
ancient settlement, still occupied today, on the eminence
that separates the river valleys of the Bradano and the
Basento. The remains indicate that the site was inhabited during the first part of the Iron Age and continuously thereafter until the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3d c. B.C.
The characteristics of this first occupation are typical
of sites throughout the S and E parts of the region. The
first contacts with the Greek world took place at the end
of the 7th c. and throughout the 6th c. B.C. The imported
archaic vases resemble those found at Metapontion and
its environs. The rich funeral offerings of the 6th and
5th c. included imported Greek bronzes, as well as local
pottery decorated with imitations of Greek motifs. One
vase from the archaic period is decorated with running
horses reminiscent of Greek black-figure vases. The local
geometric vases tend to be more highly colored than
those of adjacent centers. Among the bronze finds are
some anthropomorphic patera handles of Italiote production.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. F. Lo Porto,
BdA 2-3 (1968) 111-14; D. Adamesteanu,
Popoli anellenici in Basilicata
(1971) 34-35; F. G. Lo Porto, “Civiltà indigena e
penetrazione greca nella Lucania origentale,”
MAL 48
(1973) 195-205.
D. ADAMESTEANU
