This was the 13th excavation campaign undertaken by the University of Bologna’s Department of Archaeology. This season’s excavations investigated the gravel road identified in 2012 and the eastern necropolis that extends along either side of it. Two grave markers were uncovered north of the road, situated one in front of the other and facing towards the road itself. They marked cremation burials.
The first cippus, about 40 cm high, was decorated with a Medusa’s head. The second was undecorated but larger (50 cm high). Both presented traces of a hollow on the top in which parts of the skeletal remains would have been placed (cranium). The position of the cippi and the cinerary function present analogies with the cippus from Vibia Gavia and the example without inscription found here in 2012. Three other cremation burials were uncovered around the Medusa cippus. They contained the remains of grave goods and evidence of the funerary ceremony datable to between the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st century B.C.

A trench was opened in the necropolis area south of the gravelled road and parallel to it. Over 2 m wide, the trench had a maximum depth of just over 2.50 m. At -1.80 m, below the road’s containing wall, a phase of the necropolis with nine cremation burials (in wooden boxes, amphora, jug, and earth grave) was exposed. While in 2012 the flat-bottomed amphora (c. 1st-2nd century A.D.) was the commonest vessel used as a cinerary urn, Dressel type 2-6 amphorae (1st century A.D.) were present in the 2013 tombs. The amphorae, placed vertically, either the right way up or upside down with a hole in the bottom, served as cinerary urns, grave markers and tubuli for the offerings. Lower down, an earlier cremation burial was identified, sealed by the collapse of the first phase of the road’s containing wall.

The extension of the excavation to the west led to the identification of two more burials of mid imperial date, just below the plough soil.
Towards the east, there were no burials in the central area of the excavation, however a series of ustrinae were present. Another four tombs, the same as the preceding ones, were present further east. All but one were in the usual pottery vessels used as cinerary urns, however one was inside a tile box on top of which was an amphora neck that functioned as a libation tube. These burials were situated close to the brick-built containing wall relating to the gravel road, that was just over 9 m long.

A cippus was found near the eastern end of the wall. Fifty centimeters high, it bore the inscription IN AGR/PXXX (_in agro pedes triginta_), which gives the size of the square burial plot being examined, corresponding to just under 9 m. The cippus covered the remains of a preceding base in opus caementicium all that was left of a demolished funerary monument.
New trenches were opened along the gravel road and revealed that the road had a basalt surface once inside the urban area.