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Excavation

  • Via Cimarosa
  • Quarto
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Quarto

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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)

  • The villa grew up in the late Republican period and was abandoned between the 5th and 7th centuries A.D., as attested by the find of two enchytrismos burials up against the walls.

    The room with the opus signinum floor described above had a threshold with a tabula ansata enclosing the inscription: \“OP U . /PA.RI\”, perhaps the artisan’s signature. A small rectangular room with an opus signinum floor had been closed by a pilaster with a facing of tufelli which supported a staircase. The same room was linked via a long entrance corridor to a series of small rooms that were part of the pars rustica.

    Further north, the excavation revealed the presence of a vast necropolis in use between the 1st-4th centuries A.D. with large enclosures of opus reticulatum or vittatum, situated beside a number of beaten earth roads. The enclosures surrounded hundreds of burials in earth graves, almost all inhumations. Of note, two lead sarcophagi with relief decoration. Also present were a number of infant burials in amphorae, cremations in pottery jars and at least four busti in the bottom of earth graves.

    Worthy of note, a rectangular mausoleum with adjoining cistern and a room used for funerary ceremonies, later used for burials. Here, a hoard dating to the mid 4th century A.D. and comprising 5860 bronze coins was found.

    The western sector of the area was occupied by a large praedium, of which only a few rooms relating to the pars rustica and the bath suite have been excavated to date. The rooms, built in different phases, were arranged around a central rectangular open courtyard which had a drainage channel. Many of the rooms date to the 1st century A.D. and had tanks sunk into their opus signinum floors, including a lacus for must fermentation. In the mid-late Imperial period the western part of the courtyard was transformed into a small bath suite, which remained in use until the 5th century A.D. An apsidal frigidarium was identified, with benches against the walls, decorated with polychrome wall paintings and a black and white mosaic floor with an emblem representing a marine scene, datable to the first half of the 3rd century A.D. The partially excavated calidarium had suspensurae on the floor and terracotta tubuli in the walls.

  • Fausto Zevi - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" 

Director

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

Team

  • A. Mazzocchi - Società Cooperativa New Archaeology
  • Francesco Garcea - Società Cooperativa New Archaeology a r.l.
  • L. Petrone - Società Cooperativa New Archaeology
  • V. Montuoso - Società Cooperativa New Archaeology

Research Body

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

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