New Perspective from Recent Archaeological Fieldwork
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Abstract
Luni has become a well-known case in Roman Urbanism studies since the 1970s and in a long perspective, starting from the founding of the colony in 177 BC, up to the definitive deconstruction of the Roman townscape in the 6th century AD. In more recent years, the city and its suburbium have been the subject of excavations and research , together with an important geoarchaeological project that has outlined a new framework of the Luni’s geomorphology in relation to the location and organization of its harbour system. Started in 2014, our project focuses on the southern quarter of the city, immediately to the east of the Cardo Maximus and near the southern walls and Porta a Mare (Sea Gate). This area, which has never been investigated by archaeologists, is providing significant information about the urban organization in a peripheral sector near the harbour system. Here we bought to light 2 domus - both of them built in the 1st century BC and facing the Cardo Maximus - which subsequently underwent a great deal of reconstruction: a small temple in the 1st century AD, a workshop for washing fabrics in the 5th century AD; housing in the Byzantine period. The results of our excavations find close comparisons with the previous research about Luni and therefore allow us to consider some aspects with greater attention and, at the same time, with a wider vision: now we can deepen our knowledge about the urbanism of the entire city, and its economic and social aspects also related to its territory, rich in agro-pastoral resources and for the exploitation of the Apuanian Marble Quarries. In this paper, we will examine, in greater detail, the relationships between the excavation area, the Forum and the Porta Marina area and their evolution over time between the mid 2ndcentury BC and the early 8th century AD. The transformations of the structures identified by the excavation in an area never previously investigated in fact constitute a new and important interpretative sequence of Luni’s urbanism from the Republican Age to Late Antiquity.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".