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Excavation

  • Iuvanum
  • Santa Maria di Palazzo
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  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of Chieti
  • Montenerodomo

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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 2011 excavations concentrated on the south side of the atrium of the domus in the forum, Area 1, discovered in 2008. The building was occupied from the end of the 2nd/first decades of the 1st century B.C. until the end of the 4th century A.D., with several phases that have been grouped into four macro-phases.

    I: late Republican period

    The first building had a Tuscan type atrium, 9.10 m wide, with the entrance to the east. To the north were the cubicula and to the south larger rooms. At the centre was an impluvium built of rectangular limestone slabs of various sizes, with a moulded crepidine and a lead drainpipe exiting from the south-west corner.
    Patches of a white cement floor with rows of black limestone tesserae (3×3 cm) provide dating evidence.

    II: Julio-Claudian period

    The domus occupied a central position on the west side of the new forum. The fact that entrance was in line with the forum’s bronze dedicatory inscription indicates the existence of a unitary propagandistic project, and underlines the importance of this residence. No substantial changes were made to the domus, while to the east the walls of the shops, forming the western edge of the forum, were built.

    III. 2nd-3rd century A.D.

    Hundreds of black and white mosaic tesserae (0.5 × 0.5 cm) were found at the base of a number of walls. Transparent “hyaline” tesserae, in clear glass with gold-leaf and a glass protective plaque, were found close to the north wall of Room 2-Area 4, by a niche.

    A podium of broken tegulae and small marble tiles fixed with iron tenons, was added to the lararium on the south side of the atrium. The impression left by an altar was also documented.
    The impluvium was enclosed by a low wall of broken tegulae faced with white plaster, and a fountain standing on small pillars built inside it in the western half. Traces of the base remained.
    The atrium was narrowed at the fauces, lengthening the entrance; the main doorway was enlarged, lengthening the threshold and adding a smaller one. The interventions relating to the shop to the south-east saw the construction of a new supporting wall at the south-east corner of the atrium, with foundation, while the corresponding north-east wall was built as a partition wall, standing directly on the floor.
    Collapsed floors revealed a sewer drain in the south rooms; a wall was repaired in a make- shift fashion using such materials as a column drum, cavity pipe and pottery jug. This was followed by the shoring up of the ceiling (the posthole was visible in the floor), and the size of the room was reduced by the creation of a partition wall (perhaps to try to block out the smell).
    The erosion of the substratum caused subsidence in the north-west corner of the impluvium.
    A follis, found below the mortar floor of the entrance to the domus, attests the final attempts to restore the floor.

    IV: 4th century A.D.

    Attempts were made to restore the floor by placing earth and tiles in the worst depressions. An iron for branding animals was found in a niche in the north room. The west internal wall of the lararium was razed in order to create a passage between the atrium and room S.

    The structures fell into ruin, perhaps as the result of the fire in the adjacent shop, Area 1, where a hoard of 31 bronze coins, dating to the last quarter of the 4th century A.D., was discovered.

  • Alessandro Mucciante - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara 

Director

  • Raffaella Papi - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Studi Classici dall’Antico al Contemporaneo

Team

  • Marida De Menna - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Maurizio Loi - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Sandro Ranellucci - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Valeria Acconcia - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Pierfrancesco Porena - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Patrizia Staffilani - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Studi Classici dall’Antico al Contemporaneo,
  • Giulio Firpo - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
  • Vienna Tordone - Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

Funding Body

  • Fondazione Carichieti

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