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Excavation of a Roman Building near ‘Tomba di Nerone’ on the Via Cassia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

J. B. Ward Perkins
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In May 1959, while digging foundations for an electric switch-room in the grounds of the Overseas School, Via Cassia no. 811, workmen came upon the remains of a Roman building. The discovery was reported to the Superintendency of Antiquities for Rome and, by arrangement with the authorities of the Superintendency, the British School undertook to supervise and to record such work of clearance and record as might prove possible within the time and with the means available. The following is a brief, factual report upon this work. In presenting it, the writer wishes to record his indebtedness to Dr. Paul Webb, Headmaster of the Overseas School; to Professor Giulio Jacopi, Superintendent of Antiquities for Rome; to Dottoressa Valnea Scrinari, Inspector of Antiquities for the district; to Mr. John Crawley who supervised most of the work of excavation in conjunction with Signor Rigitano of the Superintendency; to Mr. and Mrs Michael Ballance who helped to record and photograph the results; to Mr. Brian Hartley and Mr. R. A. G. Carson, who kindly examined and reported on the pottery and on the coin, respectively, and to all those friends and pupils of the Overseas School and visitors to the British School who volunteered their assistance during the course of work.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 27 , November 1959 , pp. 131 - 155
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1959

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References

1 For this and other features of the ancient topography of the Tomba di Nerone district, see the notes that follow this paragraph.

2 Or, alternatively, granito della sedia, which takes its name from its use in the Chair of St. Peter, and which was quarried at Barüd, in the eastern desert of Egypt.

3 Blake, M. E., Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vi, 1930, pp. 110, 114Google Scholar, pl. 30, figs. 12–14. The four examples cited from Pompeii appear to belong to the middle of the century.

4 Not. Scav. 1926, p. 223, fig. 4. As Mr. M. W. Frederiksen points out to me, the associated tiles bearing the stamp of Hyacinthus, slave of Julia Augusta, are the product of a well-known Campanian tile factory, which cannot have been operating before A.D. 14, the date when Livia assumed this title; and the accompanying opus sectile pavement, with its lavish use of imported marbles, is far more likely to be Julio-Claudian than Augustan.

5 Not. Scav. 1919, p. 278, fig. 3.

6 Ostia, i, pl. XLVIII, 3.

7 Ibid., pl. XLIX, 4.