ROME - You are great marble sculptures of the third century AD, perhaps from the villa of a high-ranking official of the imperial era were found this morning in Rome during the investigation archaeological sites prior to completion of the Building Zone Plan "Anagnina 1" in X town hall.
"A remarkable discovery - said Undersecretary Francesco Giro cultural heritage - a discovery that promises to shed new light on the settlements of age Imperial in the suburbs. " It shows that among other things, the undersecretary added, "the importance of protection of the archaeological surveys conducted in the territory of the City with the utmost professionalism and punctuality by the technicians of the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Rome."
Within a tub of relevance of a Roman villa, archeologists, led by Robert Egidi, they found a portrait bust and two portraits of male heads of the imperial family of the Severi, a portrait of a woman of the same family of Severi , a contemporary portrait of a little girl, probably a statue of Zeus represented naked and size. Among the recoveries also archaic herm a larger than life.
All the pieces found, explained by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, will enrich the heritage of the National Roman Museum and will be stored in the Baths of Diocletian, where they will immediately start the first conservation work. A finding, note by the ministry, that "the quantity, technical and stylistic character and quality of materials is without doubt one of the most important discoveries in recent times occurred in the suburbs of the capital." And that is part of an archaeological context, "which previously returned more valuable sculptures such as a fine terracotta male head of the Hellenistic style, larger than life, a portrait of the male end of the century and a marble relief, reused in the walls, depicting a Gaul of a type well-known iconographic reliefs parchment. "
Given the current state of research, it is difficult at the moment, stress engineers, to establish "the original location and destination of the sculptures, only explicable by hypothesis to the apartment complex that accepts them and that shows successive phases of construction such as more recent dates in the third century AD. The presence of portraits attributable, at first glance, members of the dynasty, they add, "suggests that the last owner of the house may have been a high-ranking official linked to the family Imperial. The existence of a late-imperial mausoleum near the plant strengthens this hypothesis because the usual, frequently documented from second to third century AD, to bury the owner near his home. "
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