Integrated GPR and archaeological investigations to characterise the Palatino’s area and Coliseum Valley (Forum, Roma, Italy)

Abstract

From 2001 to 2008 a series of archaeological investigations made side-by-side with geophysical surveys at the Palatino Hill and the Coliseum Valley, nearest Elagabalo’s Thermae (Forum, Roma), a sequence of complex buildings related to the Roman period between the late republican and Severo’s age have been detected. The oldest building is a domus of the late Republican period which is located nearest a tabernae, in front of a line connecting the Coliseum Valley and the Roman Forum. The fire-ra...