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  • Nora. Quartiere orientale
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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 season, Padova University reopened its excavations in room VIII of the building east of the forum of Nora. The room was covered by the collapse of the tile roof (removed in 2016), which overlay abundant small-medium fragments of painted plaster contained within a clay matrix, in addition to sections of pisé wall characterised by a painted revetment on both faces. This layer was present across most of the room. The wall sections, some over 1.5 m long and with plastered faces continuously preserved for up to 0.80 m2, were certainly in an undisturbed collapse. Once the collapse was completely removed, it was possible to document a phase of abandonment, characterised by the almost complete destruction of the cement floor, preserved in situ in a small area in the north-west corner of the room, and by a deep robber trench in which lay a threshold made of andesitic breccia andesitic, perhaps abandoned during the its removal in the late antique period because of its notable size. The lacunose state of the floor surface means that it will be possible to investigate below its make-up, where traces of an earlier construction phase were identified characterised by a large wall crossing room VIII about midway.

    • Arturo Zara- Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali 

    Director

    • Jacopo Bonetto Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali

    Team

    • Simone Berto- Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali
    • Anna Riccato- Università di Padova, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali
    • Chiara Andreatta - Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali
    • Federica Stella Mosimann - Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali

    Research Body

    • Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali

    Funding Body

    • Comune di Pula

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