Risultati preliminari delle campagne di scavo svolte presso il Foro di Cesare dal 2019 al 2022

Abstract

Between 2019 and 2021, the Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali di Roma Capitolina and the Danish Academy in Rome conducted a series of excavation campaigns
in the north-eastern area of the Caesar’s Forum, more specifically in correspondence with the area delimited by the ex via Bonella, via Cremona and
via Marmorelle. An articulated stratigraphic sequence has been brought to light, which covers a very extensive chronological span, from the modern to the
protohistoric age. is contribution will illustrate the first excavation results, which, in addition to confirming some hypotheses regarding the phases of life of
the Caesar’s Forum proposed by the most recent bibliography, introduce important innovations and considerations. e discovery of four infant burials, datable
between the end of the 7th and the beginning of the 6th century BC, constitute an important finding for the chronological horizon of use of the protohistoric
necropolis. For the Roman age four new sewage ducts have been discovered, which provide fundamental data for the reconstruction of the water disposal system
of the Caesar’s Forum and open a series of considerations on the modifications made by Augustus to Caesar’s monumental project. In addition, the excavation
has brought to light the Forum’s eastern portico, specifying its topographical location, the position of the columns and the scanning of the intercolumns. e
excavation also made it possible to detect an unpublished datum for the Byzantine age, during which a restoration work was carried out on the Forum, while
regarding the medieval age, data deduced from the excavation of one of the domus terrinee and a furnace for the metal reduction will be present. In addition,
the archaeological evidence of the modern age that involved the construction phases of the Alessandrino district, demolished by Mussolini’s urban project in
the 1930s, will be illustrated.