The 2018 excavation season of the Gabii Project (Mogetta Becker 2014) in the Archaeological Park of Gabii took place as usual between June and July. It was the tenth season in a row. The field operations had been concentrated around three Areas, each of them representing different stratigraphic basins delimited by built up features and key topographical elements. Investigation of the three areas had already started in 2017 season if not earlier.

In Area C, the excavation was carried out mostly in the southern sector of the atrium house stretching across the whole city block (Mogetta- Becker 2014; Gallone- Mogetta 2013). The excavation under the Archaic sequence has shown evidence referring mostly to the Orientalizing Age The evidence consists of occupation levels and post-holes connected with the hut compound adjoining the one discovered few years ago in Area D (see Fasti 2014 and 2015). Furthermore, two Orientalizing infant burials associated to the hut habitations have been investigated in Area C.

The Area G-H is a vast sector including sections of two city blocks overlooking the main thoroughfare to the North and to the South respectively (Mogetta 2014). In Area G the excavation was carried out in the South-North road, branching out from the main thoroughfare (via Gabina). The investigation has shown a sequence of road levels paved in basalt or consisting of glareate surfaces dating from the 3rd c. BCE down to the 5th c. CE. Additionally, the excavation was carried out in two rooms located South to the via Gabina and partially investigated in 2017. Here, beneath the Imperial levels, a complex hydraulic system has been brought back to light.

In Area I, facing the main thoroughfare (Mogetta 2014), the excavation was carried out in the Western sectors, continuing the investigation of the rooms partially uncovered in 2017 and opening new ones towards west. The excavation reached the floor levels of the complex (of which the western limit is still unknown). It is a large doums with central atrium built in the Imperial age, characterized by extensive rooms paved with mosaic floors with black and white geomentric decorations. The domus has been de-functionalized in the late Imperial age, as proven by the destruction and abandonment levels dating to the 4th c. CE.

The 2018 excavation season confirmed the extensive nature of the Orientalizing deposits, displaying once again the association of huts and infant burials, and yielded new data on the road sequences, proving the continuing and long term occupation of the site. The excavation of the Imperial doums, on the other hand, shed new light on the economic and construction vitality of this sector of the city of Gabii in the middle Imperial age.