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Excavation

  • Carsulae, quartiere nord-est
  • Carsulae, quartiere nord-est
  • Carsulae

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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)

    • During the third excavation campaign the investigations continued on the south side of the forum that were begun last year (trench E), and a trench was opened on the west side (trench F) where the remains of a podium building identifiable as the capitolium began to emerge.

      In trench E, where nine rooms were identified, the trench was enlarged from 160 to 500 m2. Eight more rooms were identified making a total of 17, all belonging to one large domus of Augustan date for which it was possible to define the plan and the function of each room.
      To date the following have been documented and partially identified:
      Atrium (room A, partially excavated, c. 10 × 14 m);
      Right wing (room E, excavated, 3.7 × 4.3 m);
      Pool (room D, partially excavated, 1.4 × 3.6 m);
      Tablinium (room I, excavated, 10.2 × 5.4 m);
      Corridor (room H, partially excavated, 10.2 × 1.3 m);
      Triclinium (room C, excavated, 7 × 3.6 m);
      Large reception room (room B, almost completely excavated, 6.9 × 14 m);
      Peristyle (room P, partially excavated, north side of portico 30 m);
      Room with vat or cistern (room R, partially excavated, 7.6 × 4.9 m);
      Corridor (room Q, partially excavated);
      Shop and corridor (rooms L and O, partially excavated);
      Rooms of uncertain function (rooms F, G, M, N, S, to be excavated).

      In trench F, work began to uncover the remains of a rectangular building on a podium (max. dimensions c. 20 × 11 m), probably the capitolium. The excavations this season primarily consisted of the partial removal of a substantial layer of rubble whose volume has been estimated to be about 100 m3. The following were documented: – the main building divided into two spaces, pronaos and cella, the opus signinum floor was almost completely destroyed in the medieval period; – an elongated rectangular structure abutting the south side of the podium (16.5 × 3.4 m). Its walls in opus caementicium were over 1 m wide. Inside there were two dividing walls, also very wide, delimiting two small lateral rooms already buried in origin, while at the centre there was a rectangular room (7.5 × 2 m) with internal facings in opus vittatum. At a certain point this room went out of use and was filled with soil; – another building of which little more than part of a room paved in opus signinum was found. It was on a completely different alignment to the capitolium.
      The excavation data indicated that the podium, the building abutting it and the building with opus signinum floor can be dated to the Republican period, while it is probable that the walls of the temple building are of Augustan date and were part of the monumentalisation of the entire urban area, and in particular, the forum.

      No excavations took place in trench D this season.

    • Valerio Chiaraluce 
    • Luca Donnini - Associazione ASTRA Onlus  
    • Massimiliano Gasperini 

    Director

    Team

    • Angelica Catozzi
    • Nicola Bruni
    • Livia Arcioni
    • Jaye McKenzie-Clark - Macquarie University Sydney

    Research Body

    • Associazione A.S.T.R.A. Onlus
    • Macquarie University Sydney, Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts.

    Funding Body

    • Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni

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