The 2012 campaign investigated a sector of the ancient town of Aveia (Fossa, Aq). The aim was to check both the chronology and function of an ancient building, reused up until the modern period and known locally as the Palazzo del Re.

The structure, constituted by two flanking rectangular rooms, was damaged by the 2009 earthquake.
Characterized by the presence of numerous ancient structures, of which only the nucleus remains, It was reused for creating the present rooms. In particular, the southern perimeter wall that delimits the two rooms, the eastern perimeter wall of the residential room and the dividing wall between the two rooms can certainly be dated to the Roman period.

This season concentrated on the cleaning of two rooms, above all clearing away the thick vegetation both inside and outside of the building. The eastern side of room A, where an entrance was present, was emptied and a trench was put into the southern part.

In the southern part of room B, a trench was opened along the eastern perimeter wall in order to check the sequence of the walls, as seen in the vertical stratigraphy.

In order to check the state of preservation of an opus reticulatum wall identified by M. Alimonti in the 1970s, a second trench was excavated north of Palazzo del Re, in the area of the so-called Aia dell’Osteria, at just over 50 m from the Palazzo. Abutting a containing wall in reinforced concrete were a Roman wall without facing and a completely buried vaulted room.