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Excavation

  • Massa Gallesina
  • Rome
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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)

    • These are the preliminary results of a rescue excavation carried out by the Rome Superintendency in via la Monachina, in the locality of Massa Gallesina, at 13 km along the via Aurelia. This work took place between 2007 and 2011 and led to the discovery of a vast necropolis comprising 337 inhumation burials, in simple graves cut into the tufa bedrock, and datable to between the Hadrianic period and about the mid-3rd century A.D. The excavations also identified earlier remains identified as a quarry and a production or rural structure, probably associated with the necropolis.

    • Claudia Tozzi (Dottorando in Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio – Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) 

    Director

    • Anna Paola Anzidei, Anna De Santis, Alessio De Cristofaro

    Team

    • Giordana Amicucci
    • Paola Catalano - Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma
    • Federico Cenciotti

    Research Body

    • Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma

    Funding Body

    • Consorzio Aurelia km 13
    • Mannelli costruzioni s.r.l.

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