Investigations were undertaken in two distinct sectors: Eastern sector 2005 and North-western sector 2005.
In Eastern sector 2005 the earliest phase of the “domus del Labirinto” was investigated. Datable to between the mid 1st century B.C. and the Tiberio-Claudian period, all that remains are traces of an open area with service structures (a well and a hearth). The construction of the building was preceded by the digging of a ritual foundation pit which was then deliberately filled. The finds recovered from the pit are particularly well conserved (either intact or completely reconstructable) and comprise a black glaze bowl (Lamb. 28) placed upside down over a loom weight, an olpe and jar in coarse ware, a black glaze pyxis (Lamb. 3), a situliform black glaze jar (3rd century B.C.) and Lamboglia 2 amphorae. Thirty broken stones (porphyry from the Valcamonica) had also been deposited in the pit. The first domus remained in use until the Tiberio-Claudian period, when the floors in the reception area of the house were laid using opus caementicium and various types of marble, and the eastern open area was obliterated and partially raised using dumps of rubble and earth.
In the North-western sector, not previously investigated, a small rectangular room (5,70×4,00m), oriented on a north-west/south-east alignment emerged. It conserves the collapse of the roof and walls in perishable material and a beaten earth floor. At present it is difficult to propose a strict link between this structure and the open area to the south, however, their contemporary use and abandonment must be noted. It does not seem possible to propose a residential use for this small complex and it is more likely to be a service area (storeroom, workshop?).
A preliminary chronological horizon for use of the complex can be placed within the first decades of the 1st century A.D. (Maria Teresa Grassi)