Due note puteolane: il Tempio di Nettuno e l'Anfiteatro Minore
In: Archeologia Classica: 57, 2007
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The first section of this paper illustrates the results of an emergency excavation conducted by
the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Napoli in 1998 in the area of the Imperial Baths of
Puteoli
(the so called "Neptune Temple"). The walls and structures discovered allow its to identify a more
ancient phase than the one so far considered as the first, which has been dated in the first half of
the 1st
century A.D.
The finding of a marble-mosaich let us date the last building phase of the
monument between the
4th
and the
5th
century A.D.
The second section concerns a marble corniche found in the Minor Amphitheater of the city
(the smaller and even more ancient one). The piece was recently used by other scholars to identify
a severian restoration of the monument, but the stylistic analysis traces it back to the julio-
claudian time.