Living in Fregellae: Pottery from the domus

The Latin colony of Fregellae was founded by Rome in 328 BC in the Liri valley and it was one of the most flourishing Italian centres of the era. Located in the Latium Adiectum along the via Latina, its trade occurred by land along the route connetting Rome and Capua, and also by river along the valleys of the Sacco and Liri, ending at the Minturnae seaport. Modern archaeological research at Fregellae, whose territory is now divided between the current municipalities of Arce and Ceprano in the province of Frosinone, began in 1978 under the direction of Filippo Coarelli and it was carried on by the University of Perugia. The contribution proposed here presents preliminary data of ongoing research about 17 private houses along the decumanus east of the Forum1 in order to show methods and potential. Fregellae is a closed archaeological context as it was destroyed in 125 BC and never rebuilt. The city is therefore an unicum, also for the study of ceramic materials in middle and late Republican era. The study of the finds was carried out considering also, when reliable from the stratigraphic point of view, their spatial location; we have therefore been able to reconstruct for almost each individual house a definite picture of the materials and their position at the time of the destruction that sealed the neighborhood.