The Italian Minister of Culture celebrated the historic discovery in Rome
The Colosseum Archaeological Park announced this Tuesday (12) the discovery of a new domus – as houses were called in Roman times – between the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum, in the capital of Italy.
According to Roman archaeological authorities, the structure is divided into several floors and was built in at least three phases between the second half of the 2nd century BC and the end of the 1st century AD
The discovery occurred as part of a study and research project that uncovered some rooms of a luxurious domus, from which wall structures were excavated in 2018. The house existed exactly in the area where, in the Augustan era, the Hórreos lived of Agrippa, famous warehouses along the Vico. Tuscan – commercial road that connected the Tiber river port and the Roman Forum.
The house has a garden atrium, a main hall, a banquet hall imitating a cave and water fountains. In addition to the residence, an “extraordinary” rustic-style mosaic was also found.
Composed of different types of shells, Egyptian blue tiles, precious glass, tiny flakes of white marble or other types of stones, tartars (i.e. fragments of spongy travertine) and pozzolanic cretones held together by mortar and warps, the mosaic, which can be dated to last decades of the 2nd century BC, presents a complex sequence of figurative scenes.
“The discovery of a new domus with an environment decorated with a truly extraordinary mosaic represents an important result which demonstrates, once again, how much the Colosseum Archaeological Park and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage are constantly committed to promoting research, knowledge, the protection and valorization of our extraordinary cultural heritage”, declared the Minister of Cultural Heritage Gennaro Sangiuliano.
According to him, the discovery “has an important scientific value which makes the domus even more current”.
The director of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, Alfonsina Russo, stated that “this is an important result that rewards a long work of study and research and which is part of one of the priority objectives of the Park, that of knowledge and its dissemination” .
“We will complete it in the first months of 2024 and then we will work intensely to make this place, one of the most evocative of Ancient Rome, accessible to the public in the shortest possible time”, he concluded. .
Source: Terra
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