Summary (English)
The 2011 excavations exa,omed the south-western sector of the forum, exploring part of the building with two rooms partially uncovered in the previous year.
It was not east to read the plan of the earliest phase, dating to between the end of the 3rd – beginning of the 2nd century B.C., due to the successive rebuildings of the walls and overlying floor levels. In the central part of the trench, between rooms 3 and 4, an opus signinum floor with occasional terracotta fragments and irregular limestone insertions (3.70 × 3 m), was cut on the west side by an opus incertum wall on a north-south alignment. Between the west side of room 3 and room 2, there was an opus signinum floor with a central panel of lozenge decoration, bordered by a fillet dotted with limestone tesserae.
It was in this phase that the road on a south-west/north-east alignment leading to the acropolis was built. It flanked the west side of the building and was bordered by a row of yellow tufa blocks. The road was cut on the east side by the construction of an opus reticulatum wall.
A phase dating to the end of the 2nd century B.C. was documented at the two ends of the building. On the west side, in correspondence with room 1, a floor made of opus signinum, was exposed. It had a central panel constituted by a chain of rhombus shapes, bordered by a cornice of limestone tesserae (4.20 × 3 m). At the eastern end of the building, room 5 had a floor with a central mosaic panel constituted by a chain of lozenges, framed by a meander motif (2.60 × 3.50).
On the south side of the rooms, there was an open area, probably a garden.
In a later phase, dating to between the end of the 2nd – 1st century B.C., the building was restructured and there was a radical reorganization of the spaces and the floor level was raised by about 0.60 m. The orientation of the rooms, originally with the long side on an east-west alignment, was changed by the construction of new dividing walls so that the rooms were at a right angle to the earlier layout. Following these changes, the zone that was previously an open area on the south side, was completely occupied by the new constructions.
The latest floor levels preserved their characteristics, although heavily damaged on the south side by robbing from the end of the 4th century A.D. until the definitive obliteration of the structures during the 5th century A.D.
- Maria Luisa Nava - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 
Director
- Carlo Gasparri - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
- Giovanna Greco - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Team
- Studenti universitari, specializzandi, dottorandi
- Antonella Tomeo - Università “Federico II”
Research Body
- Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Funding Body
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