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Excavation

  • Alba Fucens, Forum (parte orientale)
  • Alba Fucens
  • Alba Fucens
  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of L'Aquila
  • Massa d'Albe

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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)

  • Research undertaken in July 2007 provided data regarding the lay out of the insula where the Casa del Miliario stood (uncovered by Belgian excavators in the 1960s) of which only the northern part was known to date. The investigations identified: a) the southern limit of the insula, delimited by a wall in opus quasi reticulatum with breccia quoins; b) an important crossroads, where the via del Miliario, a paved road coming from Colle San Pietro (the so-called Via del Grifo after the discovery of a table support depicting this mythical animal) met a road directed towards the temple of Isis and the theatre; c) a series of refined artefacts for domestic furnishing (including the marble table support and herms used in the decoration of gardens and peristyles) which suggest the presence of other high status houses in the area.

    Via del Grifo – 2.80 m wide, its visible phase datable to the late Republican period – was similar in every way to the other roads uncovered in the town. It was paved in limestone basoli of various dimensions, with two blocks for pedestrian crossing placed in correspondence with the crossroads with Via del Miliario. This arrangement, until now only attested along Via dei Pilastri, was therefore only characteristic of the most important roads in the town. Its presence here can be explained by the existence at this point of a three-way crossroads linking Via del Miliario (which here widened from 3.80 m to 5.05 m), Via del Grifo and the oblique road directed towards the temple of Isis and the theatre, already partially uncovered by previous excavations (trenches 184-184bis). Below Via del Grifo the main sewer was found, built of limestone blocks with local sandstone parapets. Lastly, the roads showed the signs of a series of restructuring operations and robbing undertaken between the 4th-5th century A.D.

    Summarising, the campaign documented diverse interventions in this part of the town which include: 1) the definitive construction of the insulae which occurred at the same time as the paving of the main roads; 2) the progressive abandonment of the residential and commercial buildings, suggested by the formation of a thick layer of building rubble and decorative elements belonging to structures in the insulae; 3) limited repairs to the roads following the partial destruction of the sewers, which led to the relaying of the basoli; 4) the formation of a substantial accumulation of earth and dumped archaeological material.

  • Fabrizio Pesando - Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" 

Director

Team

  • Diego Garzya
  • Francesco Panzetti
  • Gaetano Ambrosio
  • Giancarlo Iannone
  • Ilaria Guazzo
  • Marco Giglio - Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
  • Adele Campanelli - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Abruzzo

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Funding Body

  • Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico

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