Il Foro di Cuma: campagna di scavo 2022. Risultati delle indagini e analisi di alcuni depositi votivi del III secolo a.C.

Since 1994, the team of the University of Naples “Federico II” has been carrying out archaeological investigations in the Forum of Cumae (Naples, Italy), which have allowed to reconstruct the different phases of this public space until its abandonment in the Late antiquity. This paper presents the results of the excavations conducted in autumn 2022, which involved the northern portico and the area between the so-called Portico delle Armi and the podium of the Capitolium, where a monumental late-archaic building has been brought to light. This structure was destroyed to establish the new square in the 3rd century BC. The intervention is marked by some votive deposits, which are examined in these pages. The archaeological finds from these deposits allow us to precisely date the reorganization of the public space in the second quarter of the 3rd century B.C. and they offer a useful contribution to our understanding of the rituals practiced.