Villa Magna

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The pavement of the area north of the plinths is not preserved but a beaten earth and clay surface (4540) remains in the eastern section; at a later time a layer of hard yellow clay (4528) = (4521) was used as the surface. The mortary and tiled preparation layers (4543) and (4554) were added to the eastern part of the portico. In the western section of the portico the earliest surface preserved is (4556), which was occupied at a later date, discussed below. The preparations and marble surface of the portico were probably stripped and removed at some point in antiquity.

The brick and mortar plinths of the portico run parallel to a brick-faced concrete wall, 5.10 m to the north. The opus mixtum wall, [4574] = [4321] = [4460], is visible in the trench for some 8.40 m, passing beyond the northern limits of excavation. (The alignment of this wall and the plinths of the portico is about 20° off of the alignment of the church and medieval structures and thus the edges of the trench.) The southern face of the wall is coated with 6-cm-thick mortar, preserving the impressions of revetment panels. The remains of a small bronze tang were preserved in the eastern part of the wall [4460]. The wall has a door 1.45 m wide in the western part, and the doorframe is quoined in alternating brick and limestone blocks, pegged into panels of opus reticulatum; this is characteristic of the opus mixtum technique at Villa Magna in the second century. The threshold of the door [4576], at -0.60, is smooth concrete over a brick course, sloping up to the north by some 12 cm, which suggests that the threshold held a marble step. The yellow clay and blocks of concrete which cover it (4573) may be the packing for the next step up.

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Thus far, four marble floors have been uncovered at the excavations of the villa. The first one, a marble opus spicatum floor, is located in the cella vinaria. It consists of spicatum blocks of two different types of marble, portasanta ( marmor chium ) and giallo antico ( marmor numidicum ), with average measurements of 2–3 × 10–12 × 5–6 cm each. While part of it remains preserved in situ in front of the calcatorium and in the centre of the room, most of it was robbed out at the moment that the dolia were removed. Considering, however, that a square metre of the pavement comprises ca 350 of these spicatum blocks, their enormous number in the rubble fill of the room can probably be considered to be the remains of the complete pavement.
In room X, parts of two adjoining panels of an opus sectile floor were excavated, and smaller fragments of the same floor are preserved in situ. Although the other panels have been robbed, the motif can nonetheless be discerned from traces in the mortar preparation, where both the imprints of the slabs and the presence of pieces of slate at joints between slabs can still be found. The motif is Guidobaldi’s QOrQ¹ with a module of ca 60 cm (two Roman feet) and panels using either white marmor lunense with portasanta or giallo antico with pavonazetto ( marmor phrygium ). Several examples of this motif are known from antiquity² but of greatest interest are the parallels at ‘Livia’s’ villa at Prima Porta³ Trajan’s villa at Arcinazzo⁴ and a room at the Casa delle Vestali at Rome. [5] The parallels are significant because the first two are imperial villas and in the last one the distribution of the marble types in the motive is identical to our room X. [6]

¹ Guidobaldi 1985, 183.

² Guidobaldi 1985, 187–8.

³ Room 6; cf Carrara 2001, 144–8.

⁴ Room XVI; cf Mari and Fiore Cavaliere 2001, 427–48.

⁵ Guidobaldi 1985, 187–8.

⁶ Combining pavonazetto with giallo antico and Luna with portasanta; the pavement is assigned a Hadrianic date by the researchers; Van Deman 1909, 33.

Bibliography of works cited

Carrara, M. (2001) ‘Opus sectile.’ In G. Messineo (ed.), Ad Gallinas Albas, villa di Livia. Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma. Supplementi 8: 133–48. Rome.
Guidobaldi, F. (1985) ‘Pavimenti in opus sectile di Roma e dell’area romana: proposte per una classificazione e criteri di datazione.’ In P. Pensabene (ed.), Marmi Antichi. Problemi d’impiego, di restauro e d’identificazione. Studi Miscellanei 26: 150–83. Rome.
Mari, Z. and M.G. Fiore Cavaliere (2001). ‘Rivestimenti marmorei da una villa tiburtina e da quelle imperiali da Arcinazzo e Subiaco: Esempi tipologici ed episodi di spoliazione.’ In A. Paribeni (ed.). Atti del VII Colloquio dell’Associazione per lo Studio e la conservazione del mosaico: 427–48. Ravenna.
Van Deman, E. B. (1909) The Atrium Vestae. Washington D.C..

FURTHER EXAMPLES OF FOOTNOTE REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Plog et al. 1978, 400.
2. Reece 1982, 101.
3. Steinby 1999, 241–2.
4. Galasso (ed.) 1983, 24.
5. Wickham 1984, 33.

Plog, S., Plog, F. and Wait, W. (1978) ‘Decision-making in modern surveys.’ In M.B. Schiffer (ed.), _Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory _I: 383–482. New York.
Reece, R. (1982) ‘The coins,’ in D. Whitehouse, G. Barker, R. Reece and D. Reese, ‘The Schola Praeconum I: the coins, pottery, lamps and fauna,’ Papers of the British School at Rome 50: 53–101, plates 3–5.
Steinby, E.M. (1999) ‘Scalae Graecae.’ In E.M. Steinby (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae IV (P–S): 241–2. Rome.
Galasso, G. (ed.) (1983) Storia d’Italia, vol. III. Turin.
Wickham, C. (1984) ‘The other transition: from the ancient world to feudalism.’ Past and Present 103: 3–36.