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  • Vigna Orsini
  • Bracciano
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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)

    • 2013: During work on a lay-by at km 17.100 along the SP 4 road, the underlying remains of a late Republican villa were investigated. The villa had been partially submerged by lake waters in about 60 A.D., the period in which it was abandoned. In the northernmost sector, an opus incertum wall on a north-south alignment emerged relating to two service rooms that were on the lake shore until they were flooded. The remains of a portico (on the ground floor), were uncovered to the south-west. It faced north onto a vast open area that was square in plan, and delimited to the east by the two service rooms. Further south, on the same level there was a rectangular room with walls faced with marble crustae. To the south-east, along the present day shore-line, a semi-circular platform was identified, built in opus caementicium just west of the wide north-south perimeter wall with a polygonal facing. In the western area, furthest from the lake, the construction of the modern road caused the removal of a basalt road built after 60 A.D. directly on the razed walls of the abandoned villa.

      2014: the curvilinear juncture of an opus incertum wall emerged, facing south towards the probable nympheum (which was supplied by a channel and had, in addition to the semi-circular platform, two benches on the west rear wall where a north-south wall with the spring line for a vault began).

      2015: in the southernmost sector (the villa’s baths on the first floor), a curved wall with a bench on the interior emerged in sector F. In sector D/F, two rooms were uncovered the smallest and southernmost occupied by a quadrangular vat, its interior lined with tubuli and marble slabs.

      2016: in sector D, the perimeter wall of a pool emerged, lined with thick plaster and marble crustae , just west of the ‘nymphaeum’ below.

      2017: in sector F a channel emerged between the curved wall and the floor surface, the lower part of which faced with a thick layer of plaster. In sector D, the pool was seen to have two steps on the east side, which were a later addition. In sector D/F, the heated pool was excavated down to the layer resulting from the razing of the walls on which an “a cassa” tomb of large stone slabs was built. The tomb was empty and dated to the late antique period.

    • Giuseppe Cordiano - Università degli Studi di Siena 

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    Team

    • Diletta Tesei - Univ. di Siena
    • Elena Insolera - Univ. di Siena
    • Elisa Papi-Univ. di Siena
    • Giulio Lucarini-Associaz. Forum Clodii
    • Nadia Messina - Univ. di Siena
    • Raffaele Palumbo-Associaz. Atena
    • Stefania Russo - Univ. di Siena

    Research Body

    • Univ. di Siena

    Funding Body

    • Consorzio Lago di Bracciano

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