Casale della mandria tra ricerche settecentesche e indagini recenti. Ancora una villa dal settore meridionale dell'ager lanuvinus
In: Archeologia Classica: 62, 2011
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Archive investigation offers us a significant new find, leading to identification of a villa in the southern part of the ager lanuvinus. Thanks to recovery of documentation regarding certain investigations carried out in 1777 to the east of the Campomorto private road, information has become available not only on the discovery of masonry structures, but also other valuable material including an inscription in honour of Claudius CIL XIV 2097. The inscription, still of doubtfid provenance, most probably arrived in this area via the ancient road for Anzio, now represented by the Campomorto private road, from the centre of Lanuvium, where it must have initially been situated, only in the post-ancient period, and here it may have been reused in one way or another. As for the structure itself, evidenced by scant architectural material and a large area of fictile fragments, probably associated with the destruction of certain structures visible in the aerial photos of the 1950s, we may reasonably hypothesize a phase of the structure at least at the beginning of the mid-Imperial age and use of it until the late Imperial age.