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Excavation

  • Via Neroniana, ex fondo Piacentini
  • Montegrotto Terme
  • Aquae Patavinae
  • Italy
  • Veneto
  • Padua
  • Montegrotto Terme

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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 season’s excavations concentrated on trenches A, B, and H in the northern sector of the site. Given that the 2010 campaign as well as providing new evidence for the structural interpretation, was also the last opportunity for photography prior to the creation of permanent roofing over the Roman building, the structure was cleaned and aerial photographs were taken of this part of the site.

    In the residential part of the Roman building, the complete plan of the forepart projecting into the central peristyle was uncovered. Symmetrical to the eastern structure, it had corner plinths supporting the vertical elements of the walls. North of the forepart, the entire sequence of make-ups and large patches of a monochrome white mosaic with contrasting stripes were preserved in room 22. To the west of this room was a large rectangular room, bordered to the east by a deep foundation of trachyte stone. The westernmost part of the corridor 17 north developed between this room and the forepart. In the south-western corner of trench A, the trachyte foundations delimiting corridor 17 west were uncovered, thus showing that the western end of the peristyle was closed and clarifying a number of questions regarding the symmetry of the entire building. The southern end of corridor 17 north revealed the presence of a brick half-column in situ, abutting a trachyte monolith, facing south and inside the first part of corridor 17 west.

    In trench B, following the removal of the spoil that had accumulated during previous years and of the upper levels, as in Trench A the robber trenches for the Roman structures were exposed below modern levelling. The orange-red clays showed no evidence of reuse. As regards the plan of the villa, the excavation revealed the presence of corridor 18, counterpart of corridor 17 north. Traces of a brick/tile channel on a north-east/south-west alignment were exposed below the floor in corridor 18. Room 8 was completely excavated and room 12 was investigated as far as the trench edge. The layout of the structures and characteristics of the mosaic (white with oblique bands contrasting with straight bands) supports the hypothesis of its symmetry with room 6.

    During this campaign, work was resumed on the medieval building in the central sector of the site. The stratigraphic deposit and relationships between the walls were re-examined. This confirmed that the 10th-11th century stratigraphy rested on a level of land reclamation functional to the construction of a building in a mixed technique with masonry walls and a stone footing. Between the 11th and 12th centuries, a new, larger masonry-built structure was put up. The site was finally abandoned in the late medieval period.

  • Marianna Bressan - Università degli Studi di Padova 
  • Chiara Destro - Università degli Studi di Padova 

Director

  • Gian Pietro Brogiolo - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Paola Zanovello - Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità

Team

  • Stefania Mazzocchin - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Paolo Forlin - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Studenti della Scuola di specializzazione in Archeologia dell'Università degli studi di Padova
  • Cristiano Putzolu - Scuola di Dottorato in Archeologia, Università di Padova

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Padova

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