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Excavation

  • Villa A di Dragoncello
  • Acilia
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
  • Rome

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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)

  • The new archaeological investigations at Villa A in Dragoncello, the oldest among those found in the area between the Via Ostiense to the S and the Tiber to the N, have so far been addressed by six excavation campaigns (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024). The research was carried out following the investigations of the 1980s and 1990s by A. Pellegrino, who first investigated the area.
    Students from the Archaeological Research Methodology Course (lecturer G. Olcese) of the Sapienza – University of Rome took part in the activities conducted to date, which also included geophysical prospections, laser scanner surveys and remote sensing/LiDAR surveys, first in the 2016 and 2017 campaigns, and from the University of Milan, from 2019.
    The new excavation campaigns of villa A in Dragoncello have allowed us a deeper knowledge of the plan and the different environments of this important productive and settlement complex, in an area, that of the Ostiense territory, which until now has been scarcely investigated in terms of agricultural exploitation in Roman times.
    The investigations also represented an important opportunity for a review of the archaeological data relating to the sites and materials in the Dragoncello/Ostia area, acting as a natural continuation of the activities begun in 2004, focused on the study of the contexts and artefacts from the Republican period in the area, whose data have been published in various contributions and in a dedicated monograph published in 2016.
    A further aim of the project, which is still ongoing, is to provide further input for the redevelopment of the area, through a project for the conservation and protection of the structures.

  • Gloria Olcese- Università degli Studi di Milano 

Director

  • Gloria Olcese- Università degli Studi di Milano

Team

  • Xabier Gonzàlez Muro (PhD, Università di Bologna), Andrea Razza (PhD Universitat de Barcelona/Università degli Studi di Milano), Domenico Michele Surace (PhD Universitat de Barcelona/Università degli Studi di Milano)

Research Body

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano

Funding Body

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano

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