1. SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE NEL SUBURBIO OSTIENSE: IL TORCULARIUM DI FRALANA (ROMA) E I SUOI RIVESTIMENTI PAVIMENTALI.
- Author
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CASARAMONA, ALBA and ROSSI, BARBARA
- Abstract
In 2021 the Soprintendenza Speciale Antichità Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma promoted a rescue excavation and a restoration project for the villa rustica at Fralana. The building, found in Rome in the Axa-Malafede district, had already been subjected to preventive investigations by the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia between 1992 and 2000. The recent intervention made it possible to deepen the study of its context and partially expand the limits of the excavation, thanks to the discovery of structures not previously investigated. The villa consists of a pars urbana with mosaic-paved rooms, around which a pars fructuaria and a pars rustica develop, the latter characterized by the presence of a large cistern. The pars fructuaria was intended mainly for the pressing and production of oil, as can be deduced from the presence of a circular base in concrete, identifiable with the press of a torcularium. It is located inside a rectangular room with a floor made of juxtaposed bricks (opus spicatum). In addition to the settling tanks, a pouring tile connected the torcularium with the adjacent room, interpreted as the lacus of the production plant. The torcularium was in use for a long time, with a thick layer of coarse mortar spread throughout the northern area of the chamber between the 3rd and the 4th century A.D. to fill the hollows and restore the torcular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022