NUOVI DATI SUI PAVIMENTI IN CEMENTIZIO E IN MOSAICO DALLE DOMUS REPUBBLICANE DELLA PENDICE MERIDIONALE DEL PALATINO

In 2024, a collaboration between the Parco archeologico del Colosseo and the Department of Classics at Sapienza University of Rome enabled two cleaning and documentation campaigns to be carried out in the area excavated by Alfonso Bartoli in the 1930s, among the foundations of the external portico of the lower peristyle of the Domus Augustana on the Palatine Hill. The investigations made it possible to conduct new surveys and an in-depth stratigraphic analysis of the preserved remains. Furthermore, they enabled an assessment of the state of conservation of what was already known through the studies of Morricone Matini, with particular attention to the cementitious flooring of the domus from the Republican era. The potentiality for reproposing a substantial corpus of data and evaluating the surviving stratification enables the planning of further investigations with the aim of recreating the history of the architecture and landscapes of the southern slope of the Palatine Hill.