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Excavation

  • ex Campo della Pieve, area ex Graziani-Pinzauti
  • Via Ghibelline, Colombaro
  • Tifernum Mataurense
  • Italy
  • The Marches
  • Pesaro and Urbino
  • Sant'Angelo in Vado

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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 was the first campaign of the project to reopen excavations on the bath structures at Tifernum Mataurense, already partially uncovered by the Archaeological Superintendency of the Marche in 1957 and back filled at the end of the 1960s. The project involves the Superintendency, the University of Macerata, and the administrations of the town of Sant’Angelo In Vado and the province of Peasaro and Urbino and aims to excavate the substantial remains of the ancient baths and produce a publication integrating old and new excavations. This project will run in parallel with the Superintendency’s excavation of an urban domus with rich mosaic floors.

    The excavation area is situated in the locality of Colombaro di sant’Angelo in Vado, within a private property. It is delimited by the Donnini property and via Mancini to the north, by the medieval wall on via delle Ghibelline to the east, the Fabretti property to the south and a stretch of paved Roman road to the west. The preliminary intervention involved clearing the site of trees and the mechanical removal of the top soil over an area of 22 m2. A substantial layer of dumped earth was also removed.

    At the same time, part of the 2003 campaign investigated the Roman road, discovered at the end of the 1950s and left exposed until the present day. On a north-south alignment, it was a large urban road (6.5 m wide excluding the sidewalks) with a lateral drain, completely paved in basalt and flanked by raised kerbs (_crepidines_ ). Judging by its position in the direction of the forum, its dimensions, and the fact that there were no signs of wear from the passage of carts, the road can probably be interpreted as the town’s cardus maximus. Given the necessity of investigating its composition and structural phases, a stretch of the drain was emptied and three small trenches were opened (A, B, C) along the road’s central axis, where a deep modern vine trench had cut the basalt paving. Natural was not reached in any of them.

    During the excavations both ancient and modern archaeological material was found (flints, black gloss, Italian sigillata, thin-walled ware, glazed and majolica pottery). Several coins were also found, including a denarius of Antoninus.

    The investigation was run as a training excavation for the archaeology students of Macerata University.

  • Enzo Catani - Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali e del Turismo – Area di Ricerca Beni Culturali – dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata 

Director

  • Giuliano de Marinis - Soprintendenza per i Beni archeologici della Marche

Team

  • Walter Monacchi
  • Emanuela Stortoni - Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali e del Turismo – Area di Ricerca Beni Culturali – dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Marche
  • Università degli Studi di Macerata

Funding Body

  • Comune di Sant’Angelo in Vado
  • Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino

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