I capitelli romani di Altino

Luigi Sperti;Margherita Tirelli

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Abstract

This paper deals with the Roman capitals coming from the ancient site of Altinum, near Venice. The evidence is preserved mainly in the local Archaeological Museum, and it is dated from the first half of the I century B.C. to the Late Antique period. A small group of Italic-Ionic and Italic-Corinthian capitals witness the growth of the necropoleis in the Late Republican period. Most of the material belongs to monumental tombs of the Augustan and Julio-Claudian period; a few pieces were part of important public buildings of the same period, but the lack of extended excavations in the urban area doesn’t allow to place this evidence in a topographical context.