Terpstra, Taco T. and Del Vecchio, Franca (2017) Preliminary Field Report of the 2014 Excavations and Ceramics at the Villa San Marco, Stabiae. FOLD&R FastiOnLine documents & research (381). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1828-3179
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Abstract
The third and final excavation season at Stabiae of the Advanced Program of Ancient History and Art (APAHA) in 2014 in-tended to reach a better understanding of the architectural development of the Villa San Marco. To that end, two trenches were excavated. The first was located in a small, enclosed garden (viridarium) close to the atrium, suggested to be the Villa’s original core. This room is one of only a handful where two different architectural alignments meet (that of the Villa’s main part and that of its bathing complex) and where it is possible to excavate without removing mosaic flooring. In the adjacent architecture, signs of restructuring are visible, suggesting alterations to the arrangement of rooms. Those alterations notwithstanding, the results of the excavations showed that little rebuilding had occurred in this part of the Villa, except for a change to a system of drains related to a wall alteration. The second trench was located just north of the threshold of the Villa’s tablinum, where the threshold connects two sections of the Villa that have a different socioeconomic character: an undecorated working sector to the north and a decorated domestic sector to the south. Here as well the trench promised to be rewarding for investigations into architectural development. Together with the atrium, the tablinum is thought to have belonged to the Villa’s original construction. A surprise in this trench was that the tablinum foundation did not show signs of Republican-era construction. Another surprise was the discovery of a wide and deep wall, either the outside face of a large, out-of use cistern or the foundation for a demolished loadbearing wall.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Stabiae, Villa San Marco, ceramica, 200 a.C. - 79 d.C. |
| Subjects: | 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. 900 Storia, Geografia e discipline ausiliarie > 930 Storia dei mondo antico fino al 499 ca. > 939 Archeologia – Altre Regioni del mondo antico |
| Depositing User: | Dott.ssa Helga Di Giuseppe |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2017 08:32 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2017 08:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16323 |
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