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Excavation

  • S. Vito – via Campana
  • Pozzuoli
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Pozzuoli

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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)

  • Along the Via Campana, behind the so-called necropolis of S. Vito, during work on the restoration of a farmhouse, it was seen that the latter partly incorporated and in part used as foundations a sequence of interesting mausoleums. In fact, the vaulted funerary chambers were partitioned by walls enclosing groups of formae arranged on several levels, almost reaching the impost of the roof. The prevalence of the use of opus vittatum and the small amount of pottery found date the use of the structures to the 3rd century A.D. onwards and their abandonment to no earlier than the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century A.D.

    In most cases the tombs either had a covering of flat tiles resting on internal parapets, or were “a cappuccino” or with a single slope. In only one case the tomb was covered by a reused slab from a strigilated sarcophagus. Two vaulted chambers opened in the western wall of room A, the wall decoration of the latter was still preserved. Amongst the fill of the room and the disturbed tombs there were numerous marble fragments: of interest a fragmentary slab with an inscription showing a male figure with a sheep, an allusion to the Good Shepherd.

    Room B, with rectangular plan and also with a barrel vaulted ceiling, presented two rows of arcosolia (one above the other) along its side walls for house inhumation burials. The burials in the floor can be ascribed to a later phase.
    A bucolic style decoration was preserved on the northern wall of room C. The scene showed the Good Shepherd with the lambs, an iconographic theme common in 4th century A.D. catacombs. Lastly, at least two phases of use were identified in room D, situated south of the others.

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

Director

  • Costanza Gialanella - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta

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

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