出版社：Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica
摘要：The findings emerging from the new excavation in the Horrea Agrippiana pertain the ancient stratigraphic sequence, only superficially damaged by Boni’s probes. The excavations have provided new data for the history of this part of the palatine slopes, from 6th to the 1st century B.C. After some traces dated in the archaic period, the earliest residential building visible, only small portions of which were uncovered, was constructed in opera quadrata and probably dates still in middle-repubblican age. This structure was reconstructed and modified in its plan and volume at the end of the 2nd century BCE. The new home, in opera incerta masonry, was arranged on multiple floors, probably with terraces, the topmost of which may possibly have connected to the upper slopes of the Palatine located at 20 meters above sea level; it is still visible at the North-East corner of the area, behind the Horrea Agrippiana which was to almost entirely obliterate it. The domus was likely destroyed during a fire in the first decades of the first century BCE and the area subsequently changed its function. A new brick structure was constructed on the site around the middle part of the 1st century B.C.: it is characterized, at least on the northern side, by a series of parallel chambers, 4 meters wide, open to the South, finished in travertine block end-pieces opening onto an area that was probably open-air. This ground plan seems to be repeated, even though the spaces don’t precisely correspond, in the current Horrea Agrippiana building. Probably, the brick structure was a storage building like the augustan one. Another important and surprising result achieved in the fall 2016 survey concerns the knowledge of the evolution of life of the monument in late antiquity and the early middle ages. Contrary to what has previously been believed, the building does not appear to have been abandoned during the sixth century; some small construction projects are in fact posterior to the deposition of an extensive burn layer dated to the first decades of seventh CE. These create an artificial ground-plane, placed in the area to level and raise the pavement. It was only in the timeframe from the seventh to the eighth century that the building definitively changed its function; near the northeastern corner of the site, the discovery of two child graves testifies that at least this area assumed a funerary function.
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