Summary (English)
The investigation of the two late Republican mausoleums was completed.
One housed a large alabaster cinerary urn with a lid containing the cremated bones of the deceased, probably a female individual. Both inside and outside of the urn were numerous carved ivory fragments, parts of the decorative elements from a funerary bed.The second funerary structure was constituted by a monument faced with limestone blocks that was completely robbed in late antiquity, and by an opus reticulatum enclosure, its grey tufa facing decorated with two scholae, with low reliefs – one depicting a sphinx – and by a fountain. On the east and west sides it was adorned with two exedra in opus reticulatum. The burial chamber, quadrangular in plan with a barrel vaulted covering, housed two funerary beds only one of which occupied by a body. Facing the entrance was a counter, in which there were two cavities containing marble cinerary urns for the cremated remains of two individuals and their ivory funerary beds. A number of objects were recovered from inside the chamber that were probably part of the tomb group of the buried individual: two silver plated copper strigils, a small bronze amphora, a thin walled ware jug and three glass balsamarii.
- 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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