INTERAMNA LIRENAS AND ITS TERRITORY (COMUNE DI PIGNATARO INTERAMNA, PROVINCIA DI FROSINONE, REGIONE LAZIO)

Interamna Lirenas and Its Territory (Comune Di Pignataro Interamna, Provincia Di Frosinone, Regione Lazio)

“…Dimensions, building materials and technique resonate very much with the foundations for the pilasters/columns of the Republican porticus (dated to the early second century BC) which had been razed to make room for the theatre (Bellini et al, 2019: 333). The two blocks in question may well belong to an earlier (Republican) phase of the basilica, whose existence has already been suggested on the basis of the stratigraphy associated with the concrete (Augustan) foundations of the northeastern side of the building (Goddard et al, 2022: 345–6).…”

“…Immediately to the southeast of the front of the basilica, we further investigated the linear structure made up of medium-sized, irregular and rounded limestone fragments bonded with clay (already identified in 2021; Goddard et al, 2022: 347). The (later) paving of Street E appears to have cut it, although it is not possible to establish whether it had originally continued much further to the northeast.…”

“…These have been guided and informed by the remarkable results of several seasons of geophysical prospection carried out in collaboration with the British School at Rome (magnetometry in 2010–12; GPR in 2013–14) and Ghent University (GPR in 2015–17) (Launaro and Millett, 2023). Following a first phase of excavations centred on the theatre (Area 1000 / 2013–18), the last four years (2019–22) have focused on the exploration of the adjacent basilica (Area 2000), with smaller trenches opened immediately to the north of the theatre (Area 4000) and at the southwest corner of the forum (Area 3000) (Bellini et al, 2020; Goddard et al, 2022).…”