PITTURE FRAMMENTARIE DALLO SCAVO DELLA VILLA DEL “CAVALCAVIA DI SALONE” (ROMA)

Abstract

In 2013, extensive excavations were conducted at the site known as the “Cavalcavia di Salone”, situated in
the eastern suburb of Rome. Archaeological investigations have made it possible to reveal a settlement that
emerged around the end of the second century BC as a farm and that was subsequently transformed into a
villa in the first century AD, built on terraces and probably connected with exploitation of red-tuff quarries
(“Cave di Salone”). The villa was decorated with cement pavements, mosaics and wall paintings (mostly belonging
to the Second Style), many fragments of which were found in secondary positions in Room 6, which
was partially filled with debris. Among the latter, some large pieces of frescoes decorated with inscriptions
depicted on a papyrus scroll or tabulae ceratae together with other implements belonging to instrumentum
scriptorium are of extraordinary interest not only for archaeologists but particularly for scholars of Roman
law.