piano di coltivazione

English translation: exploitation level

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Italian term or phrase:	piano di coltivazione
English translation:	exploitation level
Entered by:	Moll

21:43 Dec 27, 2012

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Archaeology / academic paper

Italian term or phrase: piano di coltivazione

Not sure exactly what they mean here. This is an academic paper referring to an early description of excavations near a temple. In the context I would have thought this to be the excavation area, were it not for the preceding words in the text: lo sterro del piano di coltivazione. This has confused me. The paragraph reads like this.

Dai sondaggi effettuati negli anni ‘70, si è avuta conferma che si riferiva allo sterro del piano di coltivazione dell’area ovest dell’antica cava che, in alcuni punti, risulta essere effettivamente più basso di oltre sette metri rispetto a quella che doveva essere la quota di calpestio del tempio.

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exploitation level

Explanation:
Low confidence answer because the context is limited:
The "coltivazione" of a quarry or of a mine is its exploitation. In your case, there seems to have been a cave besides the temple (the rest of the document may confirm or disprove this.) They could be saying that the level at which the quarrying was done was as much as 7 meters below the temple's floor level.
As I said, low confidence, but food for thought.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-12-27 23:27:08 GMT)
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I meant a quarry, not a cave (blush.)

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Marco Solinas
Local time: 05:56

Grading comment

Thanks a million everyone. 'the excavation of the exploitation level' is quite a mouthful but it now makes sense to me and fits with other references in the same paper.
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exploitation level

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exploitation level

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Thanks a million everyone. 'the excavation of the exploitation level' is quite a mouthful but it now makes sense to me and fits with other references in the same paper.

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