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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)

    • The area examined, as part of the investigations ordered by the Superintendency, lay between the fosso di Prataporci to the west and the fosso di Fontana Candida to the east at circa 118m a.s.l.
      A tract of basalt road was discovered at the side of a trench excavated for the laying of a main sewer. It was 1.70 m long and at a depth of 1.30 m below present ground level. This was certainly the road indicated with the n. 118s on sheet 26N of the Carta dell’Agro: the excavation showed that it touched the south side of the via di Tor Forame, rather than running further south-east and parallel to it.
      A series of sporadic basoli present on the surface near N. 18 may have belonged to a side street indicated as n. 186s on sheet 26N

      An opus reticulatum wall, also uncovered during the excavation, probably delimited a property situated along the northern edge of the main road. The wall was circa 0.60 m wide and its crest was at 1.50/1.60 m below present ground level. It orientation on the better preserved south side was of circa 80°. A section of facing in tufa cubilia was preserved at the western end of this stretch of wall. The visible faces of the cubilia had sides measuring 7-9 cm, some of them were also present in the excavated terrain, together with lumps of mortar.

      Despite the absence of associated material, the construction technique in use in the 1st century A.D. certainly documents the occupation of the area in a period between the late Republican and early Imperial periods.

    • Roberto Manigrasso 

    Director

    • Stefano Musco - Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma

    Team

    Research Body

    • Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma

    Funding Body

    • Progetto Immobiliare R. E. S.r.l. (Roma)

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