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Excavation

  • Necropoli della Porta Mediana
  • Cuma
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Giugliano in Campania

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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)

  • A crossroads where three roads met came to light outside the central gate in the north wall. The first went to Capua, the second went towards Sinuessa and the Appia – via Domitiana – and the third headed towards the north-east. The monumental Roman necropolis, datable to between the 1st century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., was set out along side the three roads.

    Along the western side of the south-north road were four mausoleums. The 2nd century A.D. monument situated at the crossroad between the south-north road and the via Domitiana was of great interest. Built in opus vittatum with a brick facing, its interior was characterised by six arcosolia destined to house inhumation burials. There were numerous late antique and early medieval inhumation burials, found between the monuments in this area, and in phase with a succession of beaten road surfaces that had covered the basalt paving of the via Domitiana.

    The excavations were extended to the north-east, revealing another series of funerary monuments, comprising four mausolea flanked to the east by a road going south towards the central gate. The deep excavation made it possible to investigate a necropolis datable to between the 3rd century B.C. and the 1st century A.D., in which diverse types of burials coexisted.

    Walls came to light in the corner formed by the road to Capua and the via Domitiana, below the foundations of a number of mausoleums. Datable to between the 4th and 1st century B.C. the structures had two construction phases. The earliest was represented by a large rectangular building, divided into three rooms. In the centre was a small altar-hearth next to which was an amphora set into the ground, suggesting cult use. Subsequently, new structures in opus africanum were built above this building, on top of layers of levelling and a number of middens containing votive material.

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

Director

  • Jean-Pierre Brun - Centre Jean Bérard
  • Priscilla Munzi - Centre Jean Bérard, USR3133 CNRS – Ecole Française de Rome

Team

Research Body

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

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