ELEMENTI DI OPUS SECTILE MARMOREO DALLA “VILLA DI AUGUSTO” A SOMMA VESUVIANA (NA). OSSERVAZIONI PRELIMINARI.

During the 2021 excavation campaign carried out by the University of Tokyo in the so-called “Villa di Augusto” the excavation of a circular room (“Vano 23”) was completed. This building, probably connected to a large cistern (“Vano 15”) located nearby, had already been abandoned before the eruption of 472. It was filled with a stratigraphic sequence containing many archaeological materials, including a certain amount of marble slabs, probably belonging to an opus sectile decoration of one of the neighboring rooms. The analysis of the fragments of slabs gives us the opportunity to propose some observations on the type and chronology of the decorative apparatus and some further reflection on the qualitative level of the architectural complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]