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AIAC_27 - Colle Noce - 2001
During the T.A.V. work for the construction of the Roma-Napoli train line, a large architectural complex was discovered on a hill facing the river Sacco in the territory belonging to ancient Signia. The complex is articulated in two terraces occupied by rooms, fountains and a monumental bath installation. The most ancient occupation of the site dates to the mid-Republican period, as testified by the black glaze pottery. Miniature vases, clearly of votive significance, help confirm a sacred function to the area. The earliest archaeological remains found are attributable to the second half of the second century BC and include above all a series pavements including mosaics and signinum. Important interventions of restructuring which enlarged the plan of the site date to the early Imperial period. The absence of material after the first century AD suggests a premature abandonment of the installation, despite scattered pavements made in tile above the strata of the abandoned complex which testify to forms of later reoccupation of the building. Four tombs without furnishings discovered on the inside of a few rooms of the baths could belong to this reoccupation. The installation seems to have focused on the local springs. It is hypothetically identified with Sacriportus, known from the sources, in the territory of Segni, theater of the final encounter between Sulla and Marius in 82 BC (Appian., B.C., I, X, 87; Vell., II, 26; Flor., II, 9, 24; Plut., Sulla, 28, 4).
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AIAC_28 - Madonna dei Colori - 1998
In southern Sabina, in the area called Madonna dei Colori, la Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici del Lazio has been investigating since 1998 the villa belonging to the Bruttii Praesentes, a senatorial family related by marriage to the emperor Commodus. The complex was already known in archaeological literature for the important finds of marble statues, at present located in Copenhagen, Rome, Berlin, Dresden and Paris. The new investigations have brought to light the impluvium of the villa, the fauces, a series of rooms used for representation, a latrine and a bath complex. The recovered materials allow the dating of the occupation of the site between the early imperial period and the beginning of the fifth century AD. It is not possible, on the basis of the available facts, to state with certaintly exactly when the residential building changed function. The presence of the church of the Madonna dei Colori as early as the beginning of the ninth century is certain, however, as the written documentation attests. Investigations conducted below the pavement level of the sacred building, which was constructed on the remains of the older residential complex, have brought to light tombs of the fourth-fifth century AD.
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AIAC_30 - Piana di Corvaro - 2001
The archaeological investigations begun in 1984 have brought to light a large tumulus (height 3.7 m, diameter 50 m), which had absorbed a more ancient one (with a diameter of 11 m), constructed of earth, chips of limestone, and pebbles. The older tumulus, datable to the early Iron Age (late ninth - eighth century BC), could belong to an important member of the local aristocracy. It continued to be used, almost without interruption until the late Republican period (second - first century BC). Today 207 tombs have been excavated, typologically differentiated and situated at different heights on the interior of the grand sepulchre. The funerary furnishings are composed of weapons, belt plates, bronze pottery, mirrors, strigils, terracotta unguentaria, and personal ornaments which help to characterize and differentiate the community which used this space.
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AIAC_31 - Cartore - 2000
Sulla piana di Corvaro, a ca. 2 km di distanza dal grande tumulo denominato Montariolo, è in corso di scavo una necropoli di tombe a tumulo (diametro di 28-30 m). Il tumulo maggiore, scavato integralmente, ha restituito 39 tombe e una fossa rituale contenente materiale inquadrabile nell'orientalizzante recente.
Di queste sepolture 19 sono prive di corredo, 4 sono completamente vuote, 16 contengono materiali arcaici simili a quelli documentati nel non lontano tumulo di Montariolo. La disposizione rotatoria delle tombe, l'assenza di ceramica nelle deposizioni e la tipologia degli oggetti di corredo permettono di collocare le sepolture nel VI-V secolo a.C. Il tumulo più piccolo invece, caratterizzato dalla presenza di tre stele, ha restituito fino ad oggi 15 tombe, tra le quali solo sei con corredo costituito da armi da offesa.