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  • Proprietà Pietosi
  • Sessa Aurunca
  • Suessa Aurunca
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Sessa Aurunca

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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)

  • Investigations continued of the suburban villa situated in the area of the present Porta dei Cappuccini, just outside the town of Sinuessa. The chronological phases of its development were defined: the first, datable to the end of the 2nd century B.C., was characterised by walls in opus incertum; the second phase, datable to the first half of the 1st century B.C. was built in opus quasi reticulatum; the third phase, the Augustan period, was characterised by regular structures in opus reticulatum; the final phase, coinciding with the abandonment of the building, was dated to the first half of the 2nd century A.D. by the pottery fragments recovered from the collapsed structures.

    It was definitively established that the large quadrangular space paved in opus spicatum was an atrium with a marble lined impluvium in the centre. It was surrounded by a tetrastyle colonnade of which the white marble bases remained, together with a column of Egyptian grey granite lying on the pavement. The other rooms identified in the residential sector were a rectangular triclinium with a geometric mosaic floor at the centre of which was an emblema in opus sectile; a room on the southern side of the atrium, preceded by a sort of antechamber, which preserved substantial remains of its pictorial decoration in the late IV Pompeian style (first half of the 2nd century A.D.); a cubiculum next to the latter with an opus signinum and coloured marble tesserae floor, in which a central emblema was inserted, realised in polychrome mosaic with white, black, and yellow tesserae and azure glass paste.

    On the southern side of the central courtyard was a long corridor dividing the residential area from the villa’s production zone, of which the wine press was uncovered as described above.
    The excavation campaign which ended in July 2005 confirmed that the villa extended far beyond the present limit of the excavation.

  • Maria Luisa Nava - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Maria Graza Ruggi d'Aragona - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Team

  • Bianca Maria Sgherzi
  • Gabriella Gasperetti
  • Sergio Cascella - Società Cooperativa New Archaeology a r.l.
  • Alfredo Balasco
  • F. Sampaolo

Research Body

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

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