Discovered a palace of the sixth century. C., in all probability 'the residence of' rex ', in the archaeological area of ancient Gabii. This would be the cities' where according to tradition Romulus and Remus were brought up on the main Via a few kilometers from the capital. The building 'still largely intact even in this high and virtually unprecedented in the Rome area for a building so' old. The discovery will be 'shown tomorrow at the Archaeological Park of Gabii.
Source: www.ansa.it
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The large slab of terracotta decorated the roof, with the frieze of the Minotaur symbol of the Tarquins, was found broken, broken perhaps by the workers that fall of the monarchy in Rome, were ordered to bury under a heap of stones that for decades had been the home of kings in the neighboring city of Gabii.
The walls of the rooms, however, are amazingly intact, a particular almost unprecedented for its time. Surprisingly, the result of a fast and successful excavation of Gabi resurfaces in the archaeological area, 20 kilometers south of Rome, a building in the sixth century before Christ. And archaeologists have no doubt that house was a palace in the city of the Tarquins who already reigned in Rome. Three rooms with no communication between them, probably for the operations of worship and overlook on a large porch where he insisted the other parts of the building - which now hopes to find - with private rooms and representatives.
The fine walls, erected certainly made by workers coming from Rome, were plastered and painted. And under the stone floor, re-emerged, intact, eight circular pits dug at the cardinal points and used for rituals of inauguration of this very special site. In five of these, the bodies of many dead babies or fetuses after the birth. "No human sacrifices," agreed the state superintendent Angelo Bottini archaeologist and professor of Two Rome, Tor Vergata, Marco Fabbri. Certain indication, however, that this was a very important house. The hypothesis is that he lived there, after conquering the city and a massacre of local nobles, the son of Tarquinius Superbus, Sextus Tarquinius. But perhaps the residence of the family was already in previous decades. Of course, explain Fabbri and Bottini, there is that the royal house was destroyed at some point, perhaps when Sextus Tarquinius was killed while in Rome, was banished Tarquinius Superbus. Or rather, the roof was dismantled monument - which was to be adorned with rich friezes and statues - and those were buried until only a mound of stones.
A damnatio memoriae that has become a fortune. Why this burial has allowed the palace to come down to us virtually intact - Bottini said that with this discovery crown the career of superintendent (retiring March 5) - making this a rare find that has virtually no respect in Italy and cloaked with great expectations that the new discoveries possible. Under the grass and stones Gabi - 70 acre state-owned only partly excavated that the superintendency was able to save from advancing with the constraints of illegal construction in the outskirts of Rome - the ancient city buried intact, in practice a 'small Rome ', with its archaic structures that could very well tell us of those in Rome, the real one, there are more, buried by the construction of the imperial age. Now and then you look to the future, we hope to find the rich roof, porch, other parts of the palace and the city. But the funds are: to bring to light the palace, said Bottini, have been spent to date 60 000 euros including VAT, in case there are many, not more.
Undersecretary Francesco Giro cultural heritage ensures that we will try to find new resources: "financing a better show less and finding funds for archeology," he says. And looking at the green expanses of the area with the distant suburbs and ruined by construction of illegal building, reaffirms the satisfaction for the constraints that the ministry has sought to impose Roman sour. The hope, says Bottini, is that we can continue to dig. And right here in the wonderful scenery of Gabi, you can set up a large archaeological park.
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