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Excavation

  • Necropoli della Porta Mediana
  • Cuma
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Giugliano in Campania

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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)

  • During the summer of 2011, research continued in the necropolis of the Porta Mediana, north of the town, along the road leading north from the gate.

    In zone 29, east of the road, an interesting funerary context came to light, comprising a small mausoleum and a series of cremation burials of the “a cippo” and “a dado” type, datable to the second half of the 1st century B.C. – beginning of the 1st century A.D. The mausoleum, robbed in the modern period, was semi-hypogean with a monumental facade and pitched roof. The exterior walls were in opus quasi reticulatum. The interior comprised a small chamber occupied by a large funerary bed and a corridor entered from the western side. Three funerary cippi were reused in the facade. A set of implements made of bone, bronze and iron, a small worked bronze plaque, circa 350 semi-spherical glass paste beads and three pottery unguentaria were found inside.

    Tomb D40 was constituted by a simple rectangular chamber, built in opus vittatum and originally paved in opus signinum with marble inserts. The entrance was to the east on the south-north road. The internal organisation of the chamber was simple with three formae side by side on the long sides and one forma along the back wall. The mausoleum was reused numerous times. In fact, in a second phase, eleven inhumation burials were inserted below the floor, arranged in two rows. In the third phase, new brick “a cassa” burials were constructed above the earlier burials. Based on the data derived from the stratigraphy, the monument was originally built in the 2nd century A.D. The funerary space seemed to continue in use until the late antique period.

  • Jean-Pierre Brun - Collège de France / Centre Jean Bérard, USR3133 CNRS – Ecole Française de Rome 
  • Priscilla Munzi - Centre Jean Bérard, USR3133 CNRS – Ecole Française de Rome 

Director

Team

  • Stephan Naji
  • Dorothée Neyme - Aix Marseille Université
  • Nicola Meluziis
  • Stéphanie Le Berre - INRAP
  • Guilhem Chapelin - Centre Jean Bérard
  • Sophie Girardot
  • Aline Lacombe - Service archéologique d’Aix-en-Provence
  • Laëtitia Cavassa - Centre Jean Bérard

Research Body

  • Centre Jean Bérard, USR 3133 CNRS-EFR
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Funding Body

  • Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères

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