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Excavation

  • Aquinum
  • S. Pietro Vetere
  • Aquinum
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Frosinone
  • Castrocielo

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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)

  • This was the sixth excavation campaign in the urban area of Aquinum ((San Pietro Vetere, Castrocielo-FR).
    Excavations continued in the previously identified rooms and some areas were extended in order to tidy up the excavation edge and gain an overall understanding of the bath building.

    In the eastern sector of the complex, the work to tidy the excavation edge revealed a series of rooms of uncertain plan that bordered the pools of the frigidarium (investigated last season) to the east. A fragmentary white marble statue (H. c. 0.92 m, max. L. c. 0.40 m, max. Th. c. 0.20 m) came to light during the removal of the surface layers in the northernmost of these rooms. Identified as a female figure wearing a peplos, the head was missing, which was probably originally inserted onto the body, as were the arms of which the iron pins were preserved. The feet with detailed sandals, had already been removed in antiquity but were intact and could be reattached in their original position.

    Some excavation was also carried out in the central part of the complex, uncovering new rooms all with heating system. One particular room had four corner lobes created within the perimeter walls; only the make-up of the floor in this room was preserved, formed by brick/tile fragments. In two other rooms, one to the west and one to the east of the latter, the original mosaic floors were preserved, some depicting sea-monsters were still in situ.
    Work on tidying the excavation edge also took place in the northern sector of the area where, during the preceding campaign, a wall delimiting a new insula was identified, extending north of the baths and the paved road uncovered in previous seasons. Therefore, the excavations were extended to the west in order to uncover more of it.

    In the western sector, it was decided to continue the investigations inside the rooms already known and at the same time to extend the trench in an attempt to identify the borders of the bath complex on that side, and to intercept the crossroads that seemed visible in an aerial photograph.

  • Valentina Petrucci - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF) 
  • Agnese Ugolini - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF) 

Director

  • Giuseppe Ceraudo - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)

Team

  • Giovanni Murro - Università del Salento
  • Valentino Vitale - Università del Salento

Research Body

  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)

Funding Body

  • Comune di Castrocielo
  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali

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