La necropolis romana, datable between the 1st and 2nd century AD, rises along the stretch of the Consularis Puteolis-Capuam road, at the point where the Puteolis-Neapolim road joins. Of the burial area, a group of fourteen funerary mausoleums, so-called columbaria, was identified, already investigated in the 1700s, while the first regular excavations date back to the 1930s; but it was only in the 1960s that the entire group of buildings along the eastern side of the road was cleared. To these monuments is added a building interpreted as a collegium funeraticium, (an association whose members of modest condition, by aggregating, could ensure themselves a dignified burial at little expense) characterized by a rectangular plan developed around a courtyard in the center of which a mausoleum was erected. To the north of the courtyard are two rooms, while to the east and south there is a two-story porticoed corridor, along which, in the northern wing, a series of service rooms are arranged on two levels; while, in the northeast corner, a small courtyard, equipped with a cistern, allows access via a staircase to the upper floor, having the same plan as the lower one. The southern arm of the corridor then leads to a rectangular hall open to the road, decorated with marble on the walls and paved with a black and white mosaic. On the lateral walls of the room, balconies are leaning, below which open arcosolia pertaining to a later phase of use, hosting inhumation burials of late period like those present in the room.
Information on Necropolis of Via Celle
Via Celle
80078 Pozzuoli (Naples)
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Source: MIBACT
