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Excavation

  • Via Cimarosa
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
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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)

  • Investigation continued of the large villa already explored in 2003-2004. The entrance of the villa was uncovered to the west of the area occupied by the praedium. This took the form of a porticoed courtyard with basalt paving, sub-rectangular in plan. Along the back wall were a number of long sort of large rectangular apse, not on the same axis as the entrance. The flooring was of the basket weave type with the insertion of numerous fragments from marble slabs. In the zone to the east of the large room pools and fountains were identified, some with traces of marble facing, which decorated the residential masonry-built benches, placed to the sides of a space leading into a rectangular chamber which had a part of the villa. Occupation of the complex seems to have been suddenly interrupted by a fire around the first half of the 5th century A.D., as attested by a thick layer of ash and burning, containing a large quantity of pottery dating to the first half of the 5th century A.D.

    To the east of the villa another part of the necropolis was excavated. A further thirty-two burials were found, of which twenty-five were inhumations and seven were cremations, which attest the continuation towards the east of the large cemetery. All the inhumations were “a cappuccina” tombs, while the cremations were constituted by a round pit covered with tufa stones, with the burnt bones and ashes of the deceased on the bottom. Only pottery fragments were found in the tomb fills, there were no grave goods. The pottery dated the cemetery to between the end of the 1st and the 3rd century A.D.

  • 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

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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