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Excavation

  • Teatro Greco
  • Villa Adriana
  • Tiburtina Villa
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Tivoli

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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 campaign concentrated on two areas: the pulvinar (perimeter gallery and the porticus above in the summa cavea ) and the area behind the postscaenium.

    In the area of the pulvinar (sacred couch), the aim was to investigate the ground level of the theatre’s outer perimeter, the configuration of the building’s exterior façade and the covering of the perimeter gallery.

    Work undertaken in this area led to the reinterpretation of several structures found during previous campaigns, such as that found on the east side of the pulvinar and which may be interpreted as a stairwell leading from the theatre to the pulvinar. The recording of the window situated in the building’s perimeter wall was completed, as was that regarding the wall’s upper extremity delimiting the perimeter of the annular gallery and the link between this and the pulvinar. The upper part of the communicating room allowing passage through the gallery below was identified in the east side of the pulvinar.
    Evidence from the excavation suggests the gallery passing below the pulvinar had an architraved covering.

    The excavation behind the postscaenium aimed to verify the existence of a porticus postscaenam. The results confirmed that such a structure had never existed in the Greek theatre and consequently that the area behind the theatre was conceived from its origins as an open space with gardens.

    Directly linked to this idea of the garden was the flowerbed found running parallel to, and at only 35 cm from the postscaenium wall. It contained a row of flowerpots, of which ten were documented, and ran along the entire external façade of the theatre and extended beyond it to the west.

    The evidence from the various campaigns showed that the rooms along the back of the postscaenium were all modern, as was the floor above the crypt. Therefore, there was no entrance into the theatre from this part of the complex. The archaeological evidence also indicated that at least the base of the stairway linking the crypt with the floor above was part of the original structure.
    Interesting data was also collected regarding the hydraulic infrastructures in the area.

    Excavations were also undertaken in diverse points of the large area north of the theatre, where the interventions to create a vast garden area were documented.

  • Sebastián Vargas 

Director

  • Rafael Hidalgo Prieto - Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

Team

  • Juana Román
  • Loreto Gómez Araujo
  • Mª del Carmen Barragán
  • Pilar León Alonso - Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla
  • Inmaculada Carrasco
  • Sara Díaz
  • Sebastián Vargas Vázquez
  • José Molina Muñoz
  • Juan Antonio Camino de Miguel

Research Body

  • Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla

Funding Body

  • Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Andalucía
  • Fundación Marcelino Botín

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