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IL PORTUS AUGUSTI E IL SESTERZIO DI NERONE

In the last two decades numerous geo-archaeological investigations, conducted by various Italian and foreign institutions, have helped to outline the contours and the orientations of the portus Augusti. Now the extension, the tracks of the two piers and the location of the island-lighthouse are clearer. The famous sestertium of Nero was often used as a model for reconstructive hypotheses. The coin represents a basin with two converging arms and the lighthouse island in the middle surmounted by a colossal statue. The left pier seems to be in opus pilarum, a long arched bridge, while the left pier is a continuous foundation on which a portico building, a statue (?) and a temple towards the end are founded. In recent times, this representation has recently been discarded as a reliable document because the known features of both piers have a continuous foundation. However, we know only a part of the northern pier, composed of three sections, and we ignore a good part of the building that lies under the Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Furthermore, there are cases in which the terminal part of the dams ended with cementitious pylons, where, at least in the case of the piers of the access channel to the lacus Lucrinus, they were connected by arches. As far as the southern wharf is concerned, then various investigations have found a continuous foundation pier; traces of two buildings were found above the level of the pier. In Nero’s coin there is a porticoed building with two gabled entrances, which could be traced back to the found structures. The structure could be identified in a series of warehouses such as those that have been discovered above the internal pier of the portus Iulius in the lacus Lucrinus at Baia, equipped with a portico along the front. Author(s): Di Michele, Dario (Università di Bologna, Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici)