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Excavation

  • Aquinum
  • S. Pietro Vetere
  • Aquinum
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Frosinone
  • Castrocielo

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • This was the 8th excavation campaign carried out by the University of Salento in the urban area of Aquinum, in the locality of S. Pietro Vetere, in the territory of Castrocielo (FR).
    During this campaign, it was decided to extend the excavation area and continue further investigation in the rooms already identified, covering a total area of about 9000 m2.
    The first interventions furthered investigation of a room identified in 2013 and interpreted as a large room leading into the building in the western sector. Two symmetrical rooms were then explored, probably apodyteria, with opus spicatum floors.

    A room identified as the frigidarium was also investigated. Here the removal of the abandonment layers revealed a beautiful mosaic floor. It had a black background, bordered by a white band with a decorative motif formed by a flower with four petals, the white tesserae positioned at a regular distance. In the centre, there was a quadrangular emblema, with a white border surrounding a mixed decoration of mosaic and marble crustae, which in antiquity had been cut to remove some of the decorative or architectural elements housed here.

    Along the east side of the room there was an inscription 9.70 m long, on a north-south alignment and facing west, inside a tabula 9.70 × 0,80 m. The inscription was made of black tesserae on a white background and names the magistrate who paid for the work (M•VECCIVS•) and the type of intervention that was undertaken at his expense (BALNEVM•VIRILE•ET•MVLIEBR•CRYPTAM•PALAEST ORNAMENTA).

  • Agnese Ugolini - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF) 

Director

  • Giuseppe Ceraudo - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)

Team

  • Giovanni Murro - Università del Salento
  • Paola Giglio - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)
  • Paola Guacci - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)
  • Salvatrice Pantano - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)
  • Valentina Petrucci - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)
  • Valentino Vitale - Università del Salento

Research Body

  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Topografia Antica e Fotogrammetria (LabTAF)

Funding Body

  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali.

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