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

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.