Jan 17 2009
The House X of the National Museum of the Roman Baths of Diocletian
On November 24 has reopened to the public after nearly 30 years of closure, X of the House National Museum of the Roman Baths of Diocletian, which on December 4 hosted the press conference for the presentation of the logo of the forthcoming G8. The site has undergone a profound restoration, by the consolidation of facilities reinforcing the wall of the vault, severely damaged by wear and tear of time, according to the draft prepared by the Superintendency for the special property Archaeological Rome. The restoration was carried out with materials and techniques traditional non-invasive, targeted mainly to conservation.
Recovering the House has made it possible to construct a collection of works related to funerary theme: today, there is preserved Platorini of the tomb, discovered in 1880 on the right bank of the Tiber, and rebuilt by Roberto Paribeni in 1911 in the very Archeologica Show with funerary urns, the head of a statue of a woman, Minatia Polla, Julius-old Claudia and two statues of Sulpicius
Platorinus and daughter Sulpicius.
They are also exposed, completely restored, two chamber tombs cut within a large group of tufa, which originally were part of a wide area of the necropolis, which was developed along the Via Portuense by the end of the sec. D.C. until the third century. and beyond.
The theme funerary of the House X is enhanced by the presence of three sarcophagi, of high quality, and four-figure funerary reliefs from sepulchral monuments of the Via Appia and dating between the ages of Caesar and Augustus.
Conclude the set two tanks: one yellow marble and the other old granite rests on two trapezofori: they almost certainly were already in the decoration of the ancient Baths of Diocletian.
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