Season Team

• 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.
• AIAC_29 - Pantano - 1998
  Amphitheater Archaeological investigations have brought to light a good part of the amphitheater of Trebula Mutuesca. The building has an elliptical form (94 x 66 m), and was constructed in part in opus mixtum and in part built into the rocky bank. The arena was given a subterranean gallery for the use of the lifting machines which were employed during the spectacles. The cavea rests on vaulted areas, probably connected to the gaming activities of the amphitheater. In the area of the same structure there was also a complex system for the collection and distribution of water, with wells, cunicoli, and drainage pipes. Remains of inscriptions attest to renovations in the Trajanic period. Area of the so-called Temple Research started at the end of the 1950s close to the amphitheater, in the area of the so-called temple, is once again being undertaken with the support of volunteers. To date, structures belonging to a porticoed public building in use between the mid- to late-Republican era and the third century AD have been discovered. Catacombs In 1999 excavations were carried out by the Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra in the catacombs of S. Vittoria, below the church of the same name, in order to make visits of the monument more safe and to expand the visitable area. At this time lamps of the type Bailey U-"Catacomb Lamps" datable between the fourth and fifth centuries AD were recovered.