NAPOLI - The Rione Terra di Pozzuoli continues to return ancient treasures. Twelve sculptures, male and female heads, draped busts, are the new evidence of the wealth of the Campi Flegrei, where since 1993 are ongoing excavations of the Archaeological Superintendence of Naples and special Pompei.La findings to the affected area is south of the hill, where stood public buildings, baths, domus and the sea. The area is between two decumani, the one of Via Villanova further north, which has been highlighted most of the track and another further south, which has been excavated only a short distance. The nature of the materials found interesting, the architectural marble, representing different types (skirting, cornices, columns, slab, floor slabs, capitals, primary phases), the sculptural pieces (head-portrait Emperor heads ideals and private male and female, high relief, equestrian statues, groups), fragments of inscriptions, which give rise to origin of the objects to be more monumental buildings, colonnades and also stripped of its decorations. In particular, over the head of the Emperor Titus graduate (or with the laurel on his head), showed two other male heads of which a fragment of a portrait of the late repubblicana.Due the female heads, perhaps of a rider of the second century AD The other portrait of Empress of the late Julio Claudian. And again: a antefix Gorgon of the second century, four torsos, including a draped female statue, of a toga, a high relief with two figures, the fragment of a horse. The context of the findings include, on the north side of the street decumano Villanova, an environment, a square, which shows traces of a complex building history, with later renovations and adjustments. The earliest phase is the Republican era in reticulated work with following reconstruction. A convenient ramp lined with steps leading to cocciopesto underground tunnels, arched section. In their first phase of the tunnels were probably designed to collect water coming from the square root of the spaces adjacent foro.Trasformazioni caused the cancellation of the burrows, which were filled with a discharge of debris and a large number of marble sculptures and architectural fragments, immersed in an earthy matrix. The dynamics, the manner and timing for the exalted, will be clarified only after the completion of the investigation, still ongoing. E 'likely, given the large size of the finds, they have been discharged from a well inspection, which opens on the upper terrace in front of the temple of Augustus, where the hole is located with public buildings.
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