The rescue excavation undertaken prior to the construction of a football pitch produced important data regarding the urban topography of Sessa Aurunca (Latin colony founded in 313 B.C.). The area investigated is situated along the line of the town walls next to the forum.

Buried beneath a dump of rubble were the remains of an imposing substructure in opus reticulatum made of Roccamonfina tufa, with string courses in bipedales, and articulated by a series of niches.

The entrances to the versurae were richly decorated with clipei in Proconnesian marble framing busts in Luna marble. The excavation of the orchestra and the stage pit of the Roman theatre revealed numerous architectural elements and statues of female divinities, principes (first half of the 2nd century A.D.), a satyr herm and a splendid statue of Matidia Minor as Aura velificans: in fact, the two monumental basilicas at the sides of the scena were built at her expense. The one on the town side was a great aula, entered from the upper part of the town via an imposing staircase with limestone steps and frescoed walls. This opened onto the southern parados through a three spanned arch faced with marble on whose architrave was the great dedicatory inscription in honour of the Empress, which celebrated the restoration of the theatre and porticus. Facing the entrance was a monumental nyphaeum (13 m long), faced with polychrome marble and glass paste mosaics in which stood a statue of the Nile.

The symmetrical aula to the north, had a Corinthian portico of grey granite with bases and capitals in Luni marble. The trabeation, also in Luni marble, was decorated with an elegant spiral of acanthus leaves. Nearby a small crypta, cut into the tufa, was identified. This formed a link between the extra-urban roads and the northern parados. Near the entrance was a sacellum with a fresco depicting a lararium probably dedicated to the Genius Theatri.