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International audience; The study combining stratigraphy, funerary typology, funerary gifts, epigraphy and anthropological data provides new data on the Cuman society of this period; moreover, it adds further informations on funerary self-representation of diverse ethnic groups within the city. Cuma is conquered in 421 BC by the Campanians; a century after, in 334 BC, the city get the civitas sine suffragio. The acquisition in 180 BC of the right of using Latin in public acts and of trade lets suppose that the process of “Romanization” is finished at Cuma. The archaeological evidence brought to light in the last years in the northern necropolises displays a frame more articulate, where the Roman presence doesn’t appear as preponderant as what seem to show the historical sources or the urbanistic transformations of public spaces within the city. The sources on which depends our research come all from the northern funerary space. This latter extends from the North/East of the mount of Cuma to the valley that is delimited on the West by the dryed-up lake of Licola, and on the East by the hills known under the name of the Coast of Cuma. In this area, between the IInd century and the first decades of the 1st century BC, the funerary landscape reveals the presence of imposing semi-hypogeum chamber tombs with barrel vaults for multiple inhumation burials, and "parallelepiped” burials with stele, or pits with gravestones (cippus) arranged to accommodate individual cremations. Both chamber tombs and cremation burials contain inscriptions in Oscan or Latin that characterize individuals as of Oscan origin. In several cases, the names engraved in the tuff are related to families already known in Cuma and in the Phlegraean territory. The burials brought to light illustrate the cultural vivacity of Cuma, a city that, despite continuing to preserve a Greek cultural substratum and although it overlooked the Roman world, continues to be influenced by a strong Oscan component. In this type of society, which we could define as mixed, the Oscan families or the families with an Oscan origin, in addition to maintaining their cultural integrity, still hold the political and economic power of the city at this stage. Even though Heii, Modii, Auxii, Antii, Staii get closer to the Roman civilization, in the funerary ritual they "latinized", they went on representing themselves in the first decades of the first century BC according to the "Oscan manner".

International audience; The french archaeological Center Jean Bérard (USR 3133 CNRS-EFR) started in 2012, in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendence of Naples and with the support of an Italian-French team of scholars, an interdisciplinary research in order to document the wall paintings found in a roman chamber tomb discovered in 2006 in the northern necropolis of Cuma. This presentation focuses on the new data regarding the implementation of the monument conservation and enhancement program.

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Communication de Guilhem Chapelin, architecte, Centre Jean Bérard USR 3133 (CNRS-EFR) lors de la journée d'études : Sur les seuils de l’antiquite... Du seuil au linteau, dispositifs techniques et transformations des portes antiques. Organisée le 2 juin 2014 à l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, par Éloïse Letellier et Sandra Zanella.; The excavation of the northern necropolis of Cumae, recently carried out by the Centre Jean Bérard (CNRS-EfR, Naples), led to the discovery of a number of funerary enclosures and tombs of different types. One entered these spaces dedicated to the rest of the deceased by passing through doors and stepping across thresholds, ten of which are still in place. The remains of these funerary space doors, which date from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. are unusual in that they lock from the outside, unlike those of many other enclosed spaces in living areas. A morphological analysis allows them to be grouped into two large families.; La fouille de la nécropole septentrionale de Cumes, effectuée ces dernières années par le Centre Jean Bérard, a permis la découverte d’un certain nombre d’enclos funéraires et de tombeaux de différents types. On pénétrait dans ces espaces dédiés au repos des défunts en franchissant des portes et en foulant des seuils qui sont, pour une dizaine d’entre eux, encore en place. Les restes de ces portes d’espaces funéraires, qui datent du Ier au IIIe s. ap. J. C ont pour particularité que les systèmes de verrouillage de leurs fermetures s’actionnaient, a priori, exclusivement de l’extérieur contrairement à ceux de nombreux autres espaces clos dans les lieux de vie. Leur analyse morphologique permet de les regrouper en deux grandes familles.

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En 2011, les recherches sur la necropole nord de Cumes ont ete poursuivies grâce aux credits octroyes par le Ministere des Affaires etrangeres et europeennes. D’une part une collaboration a ete commencee avec l’University of Southampton et la British School at Rome dans le but de couvrir la zone la plus large possible par des prospections geophysiques afin de definir le plus correctement possible le contexte de nos fouilles. D’autre part, nous sommes intervenus sur trois nouveaux secteurs : l...

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