Intonaci di età tardorepubblicana e augustea provenienti dagli scavi di Vigna Barberini (Palatino, Roma): una panoramica
- Autores: Barbara Maurina
- Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 130, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 105-142
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
The archaeological excavations carried out in the years 1985-1998 in the site of Vigna Barberini on the Palatin hill by the French School at Rome in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome led to the identification of the remains of a prestigious residential area occupied by one (maybe two) domus going back to the Julio-Claudian age. During this research, a big amount of fragmentary wall paintings has been unearthed. While the complete publication of the results of the investigation is in progress, this paper aims at giving a preliminary examination of a selection of the most significant and oldest fragments among those brought to light. These finds can be dated from the end of the 2nd century BC to the first Augustan age; only a small part of them is related to the first style, while there are numerous specimens that go back to the final period of the second style and to the transition phase from the second to the third style; among them particularly interesting is a set of fragments with gold leaf and egyptizing representations, that probably decorated one of the most important rooms of the Julio-Claudian domus.
