Investigations in the Regio IX concentrated on the point where a small brick-built portico seemed to indicate the presence of a small cult site used as a compitum in the Roman period. However, the excavations revealed that the portico was a monumental addition to an earlier public well dating to the mid-Samnite period, probably opened at the time of the town’s eastward expansion following the construction of the Viu Mefiu mentioned in an Oscan inscription (Vetter 32). (Erik Pender)

Excavations of the buildings in Regio IX confirmed the 3rd century B.C. date for their earliest layout and established closer dating, late 6th-beginning of the 5th century B.C., for the stretch of wall cut by the foundations of the _opus quadratum_ façade of _domus_ IX.7. Other parts of the same wall were traced to below the house’s eastern perimeter wall: the complete excavation of the latter is planned for the 2007 campaign. (Marco Giglio)