Resumen de Marche di cava e opus quadratum a Roma tra la seconda età regia e l’età repubblicana
The paper aims to investigate one of the aspects of ancient construction: the quarry marks frequently identified on blocks of numerous buildings in various mediterranean sites. The paper will speak about the results of a census of the marks on the tuff blocks used in opus quadratum in Rome between the second royal age and the republican age. As part of a PhD project that concerned an analysis of origins, characteristics, applications and evolution of opus quadratum in Rome, it was necessary to dedicate a study to the quadratariorum notae with the awareness that from their study, despite the objective difficulty of establishing the exact meaning of the marks and quantifying their totality, a lot of informations can be obtained on the activities connected with ancient quarries and buildings.
