The Roman necropolis, dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, is located along the stretch of the Consularis Puteolis-Capuam road, at the junction with the Puteolis-Neapolim road. Fourteen funerary mausoleums, known as columbaria, were identified in the burial area; these were already investigated in the 18th century, while the first systematic excavations date back to the 1930s. However, it was only in the 1960s that the entire group of buildings along the eastern side of the road was cleared. In addition to these monuments, there is a building interpreted as a collegium funeraticium, (an association whose modest members could, by joining together, afford a dignified burial at low cost) characterized by a rectangular plan developed around a courtyard at the center of which a mausoleum was erected. To the north of the courtyard are two rooms, while to the east and south is a two-story porticoed corridor, along which, on the northern wing, a series of service rooms are arranged on two levels; in the northeast corner, a small courtyard equipped with a cistern provides access via a staircase to the upper floor, which has the same layout as the lower one. The southern arm of the corridor then leads to a rectangular hall open to the street, decorated with marble on the walls and paved with a black and white mosaic. Balconies are attached to the side walls of the hall, under which arcosolia belonging to a later phase of use open, hosting late-period inhumation burials like those present in the room.
Information about Necropolis of Via Celle
Via Celle
80078 Pozzuoli (Naples)
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Source: MIBACT
