Summary (English)
This season saw completion of the investigation of the north slope of the Palatine, in the area between the so-called Clivius Palatinus, the so-called Via Nova of imperial date, the so-called scalae Grecae (or scalae Anulariae) and the via Sacra. Thanks to the collaboration and support of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, a new phase of research began on the opposite side of the hill. This new project came out of the need to undertake a systematic analysis of the sector between the scalae Caci, the road separating the complex of ancient buildings below the church of Sant’Anastasio from the Circus Maximus, the so-called domus _Praeconum with the so-called Pedagogium and the Augustan domus with two peristyles occupying the middle slope of the hill. This area represents a “vacuum” in our knowledge of the Palatine’s topography and the layout of the building complexes, which in the imperial period formed the urban landscape of this slope overlooking the Murcia Valley.
The 2019 investigations led to the rediscovery of several ancient structures shown in Renaissance drawings and on G. B. Nolli’s plan where three rectangular rooms are shown with the long sides on a NW-SE alignment, open to the north and closed to the south by a perpendicular structure. This season, the westernmost of these rooms was explored and the stratigraphy relating to the obliteration of the structure was removed. The material is currently being studied.
- Mattia Ippoliti 
Director
- Paolo Carafa - Sapienza. Università di Roma
Team
- Chiara Fanelli - Sapienza Università di Roma
- Claudia Livrini
- Dunia Filippi
- Fabio Cavallero - Sapienza Università di Roma
- Nikolaos Arvanitis - Università degli Studi della Basilicata
- Paolo de Paolis
- Rosy Bianco - Sapienza Università di Roma
- Sara Bossi - Sapienza Università di Roma
Research Body
- Sapienza Università di Roma
Funding Body
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