The Background
Early Research
The First Season (2002)
The Archaeological Investigations of 2003
Conclusions
The Archaeological Investigations of 2003
From June 23 to July 11, 2003, workers employed by the Istituto
Tata Giovanni dug foundations for two elevators in the SE court of
Palazzo Pio, reached from Via di Grotta Pinta, 19.
Their Trench C, adjacent to the east wall of the small SE court
of Palazzo Pio, revealed numerous animal bones that preserve traces
of cooking and pottery fragments that date from the 13th
to the 15h centuries. In the south zone of the Trench, a fragmentary
brick-faced wall preserves a bit of painted plaster from a
much-damaged fresco that may date to the Domitianic restoration of
the Theater.
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| Fig. 11.Partial plan of the Pio
Palace. The excavations of 2003 took place in court No.
31 and Room No. 29. |
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Fig. 12. Plan of the 2003
excavations |
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 Fig. 14. Fresco
fragment from Trench C 31 (above, Fig. 11) looking east.
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| Fig. 13. View of Saggio
(= Trench) C in Court. |
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