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The inscriptions come from a cemetery located in Prato del Turco, outside the perimeter of the Darsena Romana, where is today the seat of the Maritime Police, and are evidence of the presence not only of the sailors, but also of a noble class, which can be deduced by its social distinctions engraved on the epigraphs.Ĭopyrights © 2015-2017 Port Mobility S.p.a. The epigraphs are referable to the presence of Classiari, the sailors of the Roman fleet between the II and III century, when the port was used as a station for the imperial armies of Rome. The importance of the port as a naval garrison is then attested by numerous sepulchral inscriptions, recovered in 1864 during the works for the construction of the penitentiary in Via Tarquinia. and which confirm the viability of the harbor and the city of Centumcellae since the early years of construction. Here are some proposals for tours of the secret treasure troves of Siena, among churches, palaces and alleys where you can learn the stories of merchants. Other remains coming from the area of the harbor are now kept in the National Archeological Museum of Civitavecchia and are represented by some copies of heads of Greek statues, among which that colossal of a female divinity, those of Hermes and a Diadumeno of Policleto, all dating back to the first century A.D. The other finds in the area of the Port of Civitavecchia Only further studies within the Darsena Romana will reveal who the statue was devoted to, but certainly only its finding would open new important scenarios for local history.
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In one of these frescoes, the statue is in fact represented in the final part of the aqueduct built in 1589 by the Pontiff, just behind the Darsena Romana in the area near the present-day Piazza Calamatta, next to the monumental fountain connected to the aqueduct near the ancient medieval walls of the Rock.įrom here it could have finished in the stretch of water of the Darsena Romana due to a series of circumstances unknown to us, to come to light again with the discovery of the bronze arm.īut there is more! The authors cited above argue that the statue in the painting refers not to the God Neptune, as witnessed by the arm and the Trident discovered, but to Trajan and that has been placed at the end of the aqueduct just as a sign of the historical continuity between the Imperial splendors of Rome and the new enterprises of Sixtus V. The hypothesis hides behind the frescoes that embellish the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library, made between 15 by Cesare Nebbia, Paul Brill and Giovanni Guerra to celebrate the public undertakings of Pope Sixtus V.