Season Team

• AIAC_4321 - Villa Adriana, Palazzo imperiale - 2017
  General results The objectives of the 2017 campaign were focused on three points: the full excavation of the Acuatic Ninfeo/Triclinium (E. LVIII), and two other trenches (23 and 24), that where ment to document the hydraulic structure to which the aforementioned nympheum necessarily drained. Trench 22 - Acuatic Ninfeo/Triclinium Trench 22 comprises the entirety of E. LVIII. At its absidated front, it holds a ninfeo. The inside of the space, whose pavement can be found around 90-74 cm under the level of the threshold of the openings that reach it, shapes as a pond coated of Luni marble. It also uses a series of marble pillars, that are located at its bottom. Trench 23 Trench 23 is located before the drainage channel so as to document the possible presence of a central euripus. Nevertheless, no axial hydraulic structure was found: that central space of the peristyle is thought to be occupied by a viridarium (as it already happened with the first galey, going West to East). Trench 24 Thanks to Trench 24 it has been possible to identify a symmetric pond to that found in Trench 1. Its measurements consist on a width of 2,42 metres and a depth of 88 centimetres. The western wall that closes the channel is partially embedded into the wall. Made out of incertum, and with a minimum width of 23 cm, it is covered in an irregular signinum of about 3 cm thick. On the other hand, the wall that marks off the pond is a 24 cm wide one made out of opus incertum, and coated by some signinum around 2-3 cm thick. While the signinum found on the walls is blue, that found at its base has no remains of any coloration. The interior of the pond is clogged by some rubble, in which there is a large amount of tiles, masonry and some evidence of the decoration of the entablature. No fragments of columns have appeared (presumably of brick), which suggests that the wall surrounding the pond would be a solid one, even though the image that such a circumstance provides does not cease to be strange.