Summary (English)
Important results came out of the 2010 investigations, providing further clarification regarding the structures that were part of the sanctuary of Vesta, in particular the early Archaic phase. Behind the central hall of the building, interpreted as the domus Regia, it was also possible to further investigate the sequence of walls belonging to the ditch substructure, built in between the second half of the 8th and the mid 7th century B.C. which confirms the construction of three successive walls, the first of which an emplecton. In relation to the first wall, in the stretch presently being investigated, there was a ritual burial. Half of a dolium wall had been placed in a pit, the other half placed on top of it and then an infant’s body. The burial was positioned uphill from the wall and at a right angle to it. In the area of the Vestals the excavation was completed of a hut built in around the mid 8th century B.C. Below the Archic and Republican residence of the Vestals, it was perhaps already inhabited in this phase by the priestesses of Vesta.
Part of the hut’s southern perimeter was uncovered. The wall, built in pisé, preserved one of the door jambs with two external and one internal post. The line of the wall indicated that the hut was more rectangular than initially thought, with a length of about 8.43 m and a width of at least 6 m, reconstructable as about 8.10 m.
- Dunia Filippi 
Director
- Paolo Carafa - Sapienza. Università di Roma
Team
- Cristiana Cupitò
- Nikolaos Arvanitis - Università degli Studi della Basilicata
- Luca De Angelis - Università degli Studi di Roma I
- Elisa Gusberti - Sapienza Università di Roma
- Emanuele Giannini - Università degli Studi di Roma I
Research Body
- "Sapienza" Università di Roma
Funding Body
- Università degli Studi di Roma I, Grandi scavi
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