POSITANO: ROMAN VILLA LYING BENEATH CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA

PREMISE

Following archaeological excavations carried out under the scientific direction of the Soprintendenza di Salerno, Avellino e Benevento as part of the Project of restoration and reuse of the Crypts underlying the Church of S. Maria Assunta in Positano, important architectonic remains came to light of a Roman villa buried in the eruption of 79 AD.

The major complexity of the excavation and disclosure of various structures induced the Comune di Posi- tano to call on the specific scientific competence of CIBeC

CLIENT

Municipality of Positano

OBJECTIVES

• Geotechnical – structural studies prior to archaeological excavation of the Roman villa
• Elaboration of geotechnical – structural criteria for the completion of the archaeological excavation of the structures currently disclosed
• Elaboration as work progressed of a study of the variants connected with the progress of the excavation, conservation and constructive restoration of the disclosed structures

PHASES

First report of CIBeC (October 2005)

• Findings of the investigations carried out in the Geotechnical Laboratory of the Engineering Faculty, Università di Napoli Federico II
• Opinion of the Soprintendenza di Salerno, Avellino e Benevento (3 April 2006)
• New report of CIBeC (June 2006)
• Opinion of the Soprintendenza di Salerno, Avellino e Benevento (July 2006)
• Report on restoration
• Final report of CIBeC

PERIOD: October 2005 – June 2006