Dalla costa ionica alla Campania tirrenica. Relazioni e scambi tra la prima età del Ferro e l’Orientalizzante

Abstract

The paper examines the issue of the relations between the indigenous communities located in the Ionian coast and
in the hinterland of Basilicata and Tyrrhenian Campania, between the 9th and 7th cent. BC. The topic, already dealt
with by some scholars, can now be reconsidered in the light of new studies and recent acquisitions, particularly with
regard to the ‘matt-painted’ ceramics found in Sala Consilina and Pontecagnano. The two settlements, the first in the
Diano Valley, the second in the Sele Valley, offer the possibility of verifying the significance of the diffusion of these
evidences within a wider reconstruction of the forms of the funerary representation. The picture that emerges reveals
relationships protracted over time with different intensity, facilitated by natural routes corresponding to the river valleys,
which inevitably played a connecting role between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts.