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Ostia Antica, the Roman necropolis discovered at a construction site

Back to light thanks to the collaboration between Acea and the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Rome, Ostia within a Roman necropolis. Inside the yard of Acea Distribuzione Lighting - during the refurbishment work on a new lighting system of the pedestrian path on a Gesualdo, the Park of Ravenna in Ostia Antica, have been found important remains of funerary and masonry structures dating back to Roman times. The excavation, carried out on behalf of the Cooperative Acea Archaeology, is responsible the scientific direction of the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Rome, home of the Ostia, and was conducted with the help of an anthropologist colleague of the Department of Anthropology of the Superintendent.

Thanks to the collaboration between Acea and Superintendent, it was possible to highlight the continued scope necropolis already highlighted in the work of a former shipyard Acea, made in 2006 in the southwestern corner of Ravenna Park. The area was discovered during the current construction stretched along a wall at an angle, which was found only the foundation. The graves for burial and cremation, are distributed in a chaotic way, with many voluntary reductions to make way for more recent burials. This part of the necropolis appears to date back to the late first century AD.

"From the preliminary anthropological buried in most men, appeared to belong to a very low social level, for the many signs of skeletal disorders caused by biomechanical stress, attributed to an working particularly hard, which included a strong commitment to functional art - continues the statement - also in the yard closest to the railway station Roma - Lido were found in masonry structures, shaved at the foundation level, referring to two adjacent rooms paved with mosaics in geometric designs in black and white. These structures can link to other visible along Station Street to Ostia Antica and those discovered at several points in the past near the station and probably related to commercial and residential. The data resulting from this intervention were particularly interesting for the reconstruction of how to use the land immediately surrounding the Roman city of Ostia Antica. " This was communicated in a note, the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Rome to Ostia.

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