Summary (English)
The trial trench dug in the south eastern sector of the Calatia’s urban centre aimed to the identify the via Appia which crossed the town as the decumanus maximus.
A stretch of basalt road was uncovered, which can be identified with the consular way. On an east-west alignment, it was associated with a well and the remains of structures built of tufa blocks, datable to the end of the mid Republican period. Furthermore, evidence showed that the area was in use, and underwent partial alterations, until the late Roman period.
Recent investigations confirmed that between the end of the 4th century B.C. and the early 3rd century B.C. there was a great change in the urban layout, attested amongst other things by numerous pits containing dumps of material which did not go beyond the 4th century B.C.
- Fausto Zevi - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Director
- Carlo Rescigno - Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
- Elena La Forgia - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta
- Stefania Quilici Gigli - II Università degli Studi di Napoli, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Team
- R. Benassai
Research Body
- Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta
Funding Body
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