“In limene. A community on the banks of the lagoon” is the title of a temporary exhibition of panels organised to mark the launch of the catalogue published in 2018 under the same title.

The exhibition, comprising 11 easily movable roll-up standing banners size 85×200 cm, was inaugurated on 8 June 2018 in the presence of the Jesolo municipal authorities and the Head of the Department of Humanities, Prof.ssa Giovannella Cresci, at Jesolo Civic Library. The exhibition remained open until 31 October.

It was subsequently held at the Sala Colonne di San Sebastiano, one of the centres of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with free entry for the public, in particular university students, in April and May 2019.

The 11 panels were divided into 5 sections:

1) Jesolo: between the dunes and the sea (panels 1-2)

2) Originally it was Equilo (panels 3-6)

3) An ordinary yet unusual island (panels 7-8)

4) Identity lost and found (9-10)

5) The Bishop and his community in the Middle Ages (11) and a reconstruction of the excavation and research work carried out by the Medieval Archaeology team, under the guidance of Prof. S. Gelichi with on-site co-ordination by S. Cadamuro and A. Cianciosi, in the Jesolo area from 2013 onwards.

The project, which focuses on the study of how the lagoon and perilagoon areas were populated and evolved in terms of the landscape and environment in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval period, was financed over the years by the Municipal Administration of Jesolo and by the University through annual allocations to the Excavation Fund, and has achieved results that have enabled a completely unprecedented reconstruction of the history and occupation of the site to be proposed.

The panels therefore trace the history and development of this settlement over the centuries by studying its material culture, the reconstruction of the archaeological record, geomorphological surveys and skeletal research.