P4.5

(fig. 88)

(Rossella Basso, Catherine Schwartz, 1992)

Fig. 88: P4.5 plan and section.

The test pit lay half way along the insula on street P between roads 4 and 5. Two walls of the insula lay along the southwest and southeast edges of the trench, 4 and 5. Of these, 5 was of dry stone, of typically Republican construction, while 4 was of well mortared stone, with a foundation offset at the level of the crest of 5, which it abuts. The makeups below this offset contained Arretine pottery, and thus probably date to the Augustan settlement. The building thus seems to have been rebuilt in the Augustan period. It was floored with compacted beaten earth spread with gravel, 6, which may represent a yard surface. Over this lay two destruction layers, 3 and 2, containing decayed pis», some stones and mortar. The presence of a sherd of ARS form Hayes 8A in the upper layer suggests that the building collapsed between the end of the 1st c. A.D. and the middle of the 2nd.