La villa delle Marignane ad Aquileia. La documentazione fotografica di scavo (1914-1970)

The so-called villa delle Marignane, in the northern boundary of modern Aquileia, is a rich residential compound of Late-Roman age excavated between 1954 and 1955 and long since no more to see. Frequently cited in modern literature as the Palatium of Aquileia but not really well-known due to lack of reliable archaeological evidence (only a preliminary report was published by the chief-director of the excavation, the late dr. G.B. Brusin), the ‘villa’ is now studied on the ground of a number of unpublished photos uncovered in the Archive of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The paper offers a overall account of the wall structures and mosaics, as well as of the later cemeterial reuse of the area. A partially geo-referenced plan of the excavation has been elaborated by dr. Alberto Savioli through digital rectification of the photographic images (Appendice 1). In a strictly related appendix dr. Elena Braidotti proposes a thorough typological catalogue and a preliminary study of all anfora-graves recognizable in the cemeterial areas.