SA1.1-Castra Nova Equitum Singularium: Overview with bath complex and Trapezoidal Building
Provocation of the Castra Nova complex as it may have appeared c. 215 CE viewed from the NE looking SW. The image depicts the conjectured layout of the fort in association with two contemporary structures, a baths complex, and the Trapezoidal Building.
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Successive excavations under the Basilica and Baptistery of St John Lateran have revealed elements of the Castra Nova and associated buildings. Amongst these the remains of a courtyard building (the possible prinicipia) and elements of three long barrack-like structures have been discovered. The discovery of a capital inscribed with a reference to a Schola et Collegium Curatorum and dated to 1 Jan 197 indicates that the central range of the fort, at least, had been completed by then. Both the courtyard building and the barrack-like structures stood upon a substantial platform which created a level surface on and above the slopes of the Caelian. Immediately adjacent the platform are two structures, the Trapezoidal Building, broadly Severan in date, and a bath complex, which was most probably completed in the reign of Caracalla (211-217). References: Colini, A. M. 1944 Storia e Topografia del Celio nell’antichità (APA (3rdseries) 7). Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 343-359 Francini, S., 2020 'Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876', in in Bosman, L., Haynes, I. P., and Liverani, P., (eds) The Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Cambridge University Press,114-133 Haynes, I. P., and Liverani, P., 2020 ‘The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation’, in Bosman, L., Haynes, I. P., and Liverani, P., (eds) The Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Cambridge University Press, 91-114 Josi, E. 1944 ‘Scoperte nella Basilia costantiniana al Laterano, Roma’, Rivista di archeologia cristiana 11, 335-338. Liverani, P., 1998 ‘Introduzione topografica’, in Liverani, P., (ed.) Laterano I: Scavi sotto la Basilica di S. Giovani in Laterano.1: Material. Vatican City, 6-16 Pelliccioni, G., 1973 Le nuove scoperte sulle origini del Battistero Lateranense, (APA (3rdseries) 12, 1). Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, Vatican City.
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Army Base
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Visualised by Iwan Peverett, data from Ian Haynes, Paolo Liverani, David Heslop, Thea Ravasi (baths)
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