{"id":22761,"date":"2021-03-22T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=22761"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:17:04","slug":"an-archaeological-site-at-piazza-venezia-hadrians-auditoria","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/event\/an-archaeological-site-at-piazza-venezia-hadrians-auditoria\/","title":{"rendered":"An archaeological site at Piazza Venezia. Hadrian\u2019s Auditoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 2007 and 2011, a series of archaeological investigations were conducted before construction began on Line C of the Rome Metro<\/strong>. These preliminary excavations led archaeologists to discover a large portion of an imposing public building<\/strong> constructed during the reign of Hadrian (117 \u2013 138 AD) beneath the current-day Piazza Madonna di Loreto<\/strong>. Used for cultural dissemination, public readings of literary works and prose, rhetoric lessons but also for judicial functions, we now know this ancient building to be Hadrian\u2019s Auditoria<\/em><\/strong> and it has been added to the area managed by the Parco archeologico del Colosseo<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Separated from Trajan\u2019s Forum by a curving road<\/strong>, the building was divided into two levels<\/strong> that looked out over the ancient Via Flaminia \u2013 which followed the route of the current-day Via del Corso \u2013 located roughly two meters beneath Piazza Venezia. The ground floor<\/strong>, only partially preserved, was divided into three large halls, each with floor and wall decorations in polychrome marble and terraced steps on either side of a central corridor. <\/strong>The halls were arranged radially around a curve in the road that separated the Auditoria<\/em> from Trajan\u2019s Forum. Orators would stand in the central corridor of each hall and present their work to the public seated on subsellia<\/em> (low seats) placed on the terraced steps<\/strong>. Two of these halls emerged in the course of recent excavations while a part of the third was found in the early 1900\u2019s during the construction of the nearby Assicurazioni Generali Building.<\/p>\n

The complex remained relatively intact until the 6th<\/sup> century AD<\/strong>, when a coppersmith\u2019s workshop<\/strong> was established within its halls, which had now been stripped of their marble decorations. The presence of metal waste and ingots<\/strong> made the workshop easy to recognize, as did the holes dug in the floor and terraced steps to house small furnaces. A violent earthquake struck the area in 847, and between the 12th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup> centuries<\/strong>, a kiln for lime production<\/strong> was installed over the collapsed debris in the central hall.<\/p>\n

Finally, in the late 16th<\/sup> century<\/strong>, the Bakers\u2019 Hospital, sponsored by the eponymous Fraternity<\/strong>, was built in this area. The neighboring church of Santa Maria di Loreto was built by the same fraternity.<\/p>\n

This area\u2019s stratigraphic palimpsest will be integrated into the new \u201cPiazza Venezia\u201d metro station on the C Line and will be connected underground to the adjacent Trajan\u2019s Forum, as well as with the Vittoriano complex, thereby creating an \u201cimmersive but real\u201d visit to Rome\u2019s underground.<\/p>\n

You can hear all about it on Wednesday, 24 March at 11:30 in our usual Facebook livestream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between 2007 and 2011, a series of archaeological investigations were conducted before construction began on Line C of the Rome Metro. These preliminary excavations led archaeologists to discover a large portion of an imposing public building constructed during the reign of Hadrian (117 \u2013 138 AD) beneath the current-day Piazza Madonna di Loreto. Used for… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22743,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"location_evento":[],"tribe_events_cat":[222],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22763,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22761\/revisions\/22763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22761"},{"taxonomy":"location_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_evento?post=22761"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=22761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}