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Excavation

  • Villa Pausilypon
  • Napoli
  • Pausilypon

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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)

    • Excavations were reopened on the odeion in the Pausilypon complex. Vegetation was cleared from the upper terrace, overlooking the Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Pozzuoli, and a stairway was investigated which provided access to the terrace from a portico. The entrance and walls of the stairway were frescoed with a monochrome vermillion red background with yellow framing and a blue dado.

      The exploration of the eastern corner of the odeion quarter was completed. This was occupied by a large hall with doors and windows, similar to the adjacent one with opus sectile floors and walls. Over time, with the addition of opus reticulatum dividing walls, the hall was transformed into three smaller rooms, paved with a white mosaic floor. Two had tiled pitched roofs and frescoed ceilings, whilst the room in the corner of the portico, probably a biclinium, had a vaulted roof.

      The odeion was also surrounded by a colonnade on its eastern side. This had a tiled roof supported on plastered masonry columns. During the cleaning of the eastern wing of the portico a white marble composite Corinthian capital and fragments of other capitals from pilasters were found. The portico was articulated by quadrangular semi-pilasters (0.60 × 0.60 m), abutting the back wall, veneered with fluted portasanta marble, with cornices of rosso antico and crowned by capitals. The semi-pilasters framed large windows, from which in antiquity it must have been possible to enjoy a view of the sea.

      Excavation of the garden revealed that the present ground level corresponds with the ancient one (covered by only a few centimetres of humus ). The area investigated was adorned with plants placed in small flower-pots, with the typical holes for roots, buried in correspondence with the semi-pilasters of the portico.

    • Stefano De Caro - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

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    • Giuseppe Vecchio - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta

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    • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

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