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Excavation

  • Via Vernelle e via Mallardera
  • Alife
  • Alifae
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Alife

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • Interesting results regarding the road network within the territory of Roman Allifae were obtained from the trenches excavated in via Vernelle and via Mallardera. Three roads were uncovered, two with gravel road beds and a third in beaten earth, with small channels on one side. On the basis of the materials comprising the make ups they can be generically dated to the Roman period.

    Another road with a gravel make up, on a north-south alignment, was connected to an arched bridge. The southern pier, two smaller piers and the collapse of the related arches built of robust cement piers contained by walls of limestone blocks were uncovered. The construction technique and the distance between the piers, which can be measured in Roman feet, suggests an Imperial date for the bridge.

    Several cemetery areas, often associated with the roads mentioned above, were also investigated. Both inhumations and cremation burials were present in the “a cappuccina” tombs.

    In trench 2 in via Mallardera fourteen tombs datable to between 30 A.D. and the 2nd century A.D. were investigated. Worthy of note from the point of view of ritual were the obol for Charon (female burial) and the constant association (in three tombs) of a coin inside a small plain buff ware jar. Trench 12 revealed an alluvial layer with a large quantity of impasto material datable to between the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Eneolithic period, which at present cannot be linked to any settlement structure.

  • Fausto Zevi - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" 

Director

  • Francesco Sirano - Soprintendenza per i beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Team

  • Angela De Filippis - soc. Xenia
  • Luciano M. Rendina

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

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