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Series Number
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567
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Title
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Signum Vortumni Project.
Il palinsesto architettonico a est degli Horrea Agrippiana:
un’analisi preliminare
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Date of Publication
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2023
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Abstract
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During the archeological excavations of Signum Vortumni Project (2016-2019) in the Horrea Agrippiana area there were being carry out survey and masonries’s analysis at ground level of the complex situated at east of augustean warehouses. It deals with an unpublished architectural palimpsest that enriches the topographical framework of the site together with to data of recent excavations, regarding before Agrippa’s warehouses.
The acquisition and the analysis of those evidences gave back interesting novelties about the presence of a new domus late republican age (II-I B.C.) characterized by terraces on north-west low slopes of Palatine with a rich decorative elements. Obviously it belongs to a member of nobilitas senatorial.
Those studies reveal that the domus has been disposed by brickwork’s structures built befoure Horrea and dated to the first half of I B.C. New buildings, highlight in partial remains, allows to make some further reflec-tions about Agrippa’s complex and the making of the first Imperal Palaces on this side of Palatine.
