Poggio Sommavilla or Poggetto (Local dialect: Poggettu) is a frazione of Collevecchio, Lazio region at Tiber Valley in Italy. It is known for the discovery of archaeological finds from prehistory.Massimo Ernesto Santucci, local paleontologist archaeologist, delivered paleoarchaeological and prehistoric materials to the Civic Archaeological Museum of Magliano Sabina after on-site archaeological reconnaissan
History
The toponym Poggio Sommavilla is cited by Chronicon 33 of Soratte in the early Middle Ages as Castri Summa Villa,Chronicon 33 di Benedetto del Soratte p. 46, «Fundum Antiscanis, vinealis petite sex, toti in massa de Tocie petite de tera hubi dicutur a Saline, tres petite de terra a fundum Antiscanu a Monumento usque ad ripam castri Summa villa, fundum Antiquum cum aliis nominibus integro, fundum Casali hubi est ecclesia Sancti Valentini, cum fundu Carpiniano, fundum Musiniano cum omnia sua adiacentia» https://archive.org/stream/fonti per la storia d'Italia because it was built on the remains of a villa from the imperial Roman era, built following the destruction by the Roman Republican army of the archaic center of which the name is not yet known. Archaeological evidence of this is provided by the statues of the villa stolen in 1600 for the Khircheriana collectionUmberto Mattei, La Sabina tiberina dalla preistoria alla fine dell'impero romano, 2004 p, 103 and the discovery of a statue by a farmer between 1876-1891 in the locality dei Frati in the northern part of the current historic centre,Notizie degli scavi di antichità (1876–1891) p, 282 Full text of "Notizie degli scavi di antichità" today they are preserved in Rome at the National Roman Museum.
Archaeological site
Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla Grappignano [ it ] Toccia [ it ]
Museum
Civic archaeological museum of Magliano Sabina [ it ]
Infrastructure and transport
Railway station Collevecchio-Poggio Sommavilla [ it ]
References
See also
Tiber Valley Foglia
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