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  • Via Viticelle
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    Chronology

    • 80 BC - 400 AD

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      • A villa built in the first dacades of the 1st century B.C. came to light along the line of the modern via Campana, during the construction of the sewer system in via Viticelle, in the trench opened to house the sewer line. The structure was certainly of some importance given the richness of the III style pictorial decoration, found not only _in situ _ but also in fragments in the layers of collapse. Two rooms were excavated, built in _opus reticulatum_ preceded by an earlier phase in _quasi reticulatum_. they were frescoed with a black dado with a horizontal white fillet which had red bands bordered in white coming off from it, the latter supporting festoons over-painted in white. The dado was also articulated by a further two narrow fillets, also white, the lower of which was enriched with small ornamental motifs. Above the lower zone, the walls, in monochrome yellow, were divided into a number of panels, at the centre of which were figured pictures, whilst the upper part must have had a white background. The first room excavated was paved with _opus signinum_ and, outside was a well covered with a tufa slab and fed by a small channel. The room next to it preserved an _opus signinum_ floor with white limestone _tesserae_ arranged to form a network of hexagons. Beside the later an area paved in _opus signinum_ was only partially investigated. Here, a well faced with _signinum_ closed in by walls in _opus quasi reticulatum_ and _reticulatum_ was uncovered.
      • Substantial stretches of the basalt paving of a side road leading off the ancient via Campana (the modern via Viticelle) came to light during preliminary excavations for the construction of a sewer. A cistern, a perfectly preserved _columbarium_ and a small _lacus_, relating to a press belonging to a rustic complex abandoned between the 3rd-4th century A.D., were discovered along the road.

    Bibliography

      • S. De Caro 2001, L’attività della Soprintendenza archeologica di Napoli e Caserta nel 2000, in Atti del XL Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2000), Taranto: 865-905.
      • S. De Caro 2003, L’attività della Soprintendenza archeologica di Napoli e Caserta nel 2002, in Atti del XLII Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2002), Taranto: 569-621.