Articles by Marina Piranomonte

This paper illustrates some results of rescue excavations carried out during public and private work executed between the third and sixth mile of the ancient Via Flaminia before and beyond the Milvian Bridge. The excavation data are still being studied, while the graphic documentation has already been scanned, georeferenced and vectorized by the SITAR. Due to the nature of the places, the adoption of multiple methods of investigation was required. In addition to the archaeological survey, geo-archaeological drillings and prospections using ERT (Electrical Resistivity Tomography) were undertaken. The findings, arising from the various sites investigated, mainly consist of funerary buildings (like Mausoleums under the Stadio Flaminio and remains of burial chambers under the Villa Flaminia) that escaped demolition of the early 20th century, when the road was involved in an intensive building campaign, which erased it from the city landscape. On the other side of the Tiber, a portion of the ancient Via Flaminia has been unearthed in the area of a gym, Mondofitness, at the fourth mile of the Via Flaminia, and trial excavations in the area of Saxa Rubra brought to light the ruins of a Roman Villa Rustica with a thermal complex.