Spina
Spina is a Archeological site located at 5 km of Comacchio, on the territory of the common Italian of Ostellato in Emilie-Romagna close to Ferrare.
According to a tradition brought back by Marcus Verrius Flaccus and Caesina, Tarchon, hero of Tarquinia twelve cities in the Plaine Po would have founded, among which one identifies Spina, Felsina, Mantoue, Adria and Melpum. Other writers of the Antiquité presented Spina like a Greek city .
According to the archaeological Dating S, the city was founded at the end of sixth century BC. The city knew its apogee of the {{Ve}} at third century BC, as abundance testifies some to the Céramiques and other funerary objects found in the tombs.
Shopping mall of first importance, Spina saw unloading in its port, connected to the Mer by a channel derived from the Po, goods and travellers coming from the north of the Europe at the African coasts , while passing by the Greece which maintained the very close links with the town of Spina, as testify to them the ceramics found on the site.
The city survived then until the first years after J.C. It disappeared under water from the delta from Po and during centuries its name remained legendary. In 1922, drainage works made it possible to discover the first Nécropole S. the archaeological excavations revealed the presence of thousands of tombs. In second half of the 20th century, the inhabited center was discovered. Many objects of great value are exposed to the Musée archaeological national of Ferrare, also named museum of Spina.
External bond
- national archaeological Museum of Ferrare
Source
- Sibyl Von Keys-Reden, translation of Monique Bittebierre and Henri Daussy, the Etruscans , Artaud, 1962
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