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Excavation

  • Quarto, via Campana
  • Quarto
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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)

  • A new sizable group of columbaria of early imperial date was uncovered during work for the construction of a new sewer beneath the eastern sidewalk of the modern via Campana. In this stretch, circa 400 m before the Montagna Spaccata road cutting, the modern road follows the line of the ancient one fairly closely. The building history of these monuments seemed analogous to those of other columbaria at Puteoli. First, in the late Republican-early Imperial period a funerary enclosure was created, whose area was then occupied by a columbarium, which was used filling every possible space, both inside and out the mausoleum until the 3rd century A.D. In some cases use continued, perhaps no longer for funerary purposes, until the 5th century A.D. Worthy of note the chance find, at the top of a number of niches for cinerary urns, of several graffito or painted inscriptions with the names of the deceased: in hypogeum R1-2 at least four inscriptions relating to the family of the Pollii and in hypogeum V a graffito naming one AVLIA FAVSTA.

  • Stefano De Caro - Soprintendenza per i 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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Research Body

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

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