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  • Proprietà Fornaro, via Vallerano
  • Teano
  • Teanum Sidicinum
  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Teano

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Chronology

  • 300 BC - 1 BC
  • 80 AD - 300 AD

Season

    • An important discovery was made just inside the _suburbium_ of Teano, in via Vallerano, on the Fornaro property not far from the railway station. The site is situated along the south-western edge of an ancient road, of which the remains of the original paving of _basoli_ could be seen in several points. During work on the construction of a house a large pit was revealed excavated in the tufa bedrock. This had been filled in antiquity by an enormous dump (circa 200 fragments) of architectural elements in grey tufa, almost entirely derived from the destruction of a single building. They comprised orthostats, squared blocks and elements of Doric trabeation, banded architraves, parts of doors, Ionic volutes, Doric column drums, all of which mixed with chippings and waste material from the reworking of the blocks themselves. It is suggested that these may have belonged to a monumental altar, datable to between the 3rd-2nd century B.C., comparable to similar Sicilian monuments (the altar of Ierone II), as well as terracotta altars ( _arulae_ ) and Italo-Etruscan sarcophagi. The structure may have been part of a sanctuary, unknown today, situated in the vicinity and just outside the urban area, that was destroyed during the course of the 1st century B.C. or, at the latest, of the 1st century A.D.
    • Three excavations were undertaken of ancient roads that were affected by the modern road network. Along the present via Vallerano, corresponding to an ancient road that left the town to the south and led towards the sanctuary of Fondo Ruozzo, several tracts of basalt paving were recovered. They were at noticeably different heights which rose towards the west. In the locality of S. Lieno, along the ancient road ad Suessam, trenches were dug in correspondence with the ancient bridge. In a hole in the paving a series of make ups were revealed which contained pottery fragments, coins and metalworking waste which dated the layers to the end of the 1st-beginning of the 2nd century A.D.
    • Nel corso del 2005 si è definitivamente bonificata la fossa di scarico di materiale architettonico ellenistico individuata nel 2001 in località Fornaro. Vi sono stati recuperati ulteriori blocchi di architrave e cornice dorica, a conferma della provenienza da un medesimo monumento smontato e gettato nella fossa, residuata da una probabile attività di cava di pozzolana, in una data antecedente l’inoltrato II sec. d.C.

Bibliography

    • F. Zevi 2004, L’attività archeologica a Napoli e Caserta nel 2003, in Atti del XLIII Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2003), Taranto: 853-923.
    • M.L. Nava, 2006, L’attività archeologica a Napoli e Caserta nel 2005, in Atti del XLV Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2005), Taranto: 583-661.
    • S. De Caro 2002, L’attività della Soprintendenza archeologica di Napoli e Caserta nel 2001, in Atti del XLI Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2001), Taranto: 635-675.