Alle origini del laterizio romano: Nascita e diffusione del mattone cotto nel Mediterraneo tra IV e I secolo a.C., 2019, ISBN 978-88-7140-940-5, págs. 495-506, 2019
The Latin colony of Fregellae is a chronologically fixed context, founded in 328/313 BCE and dest... more The Latin colony of Fregellae is a chronologically fixed context, founded in 328/313 BCE and destroyed in 125 BCE, as testified by ancient texts and by archaeological data. Excavations at the site discovered several clay construction materials, both unbaked and baked. In particular, the walls of the first phase of domus 7 (3rd century BCE) have been here taken into consideration; in this building, broken tiles were used to build structures in non-cement opus testaceum, to work as the base of the walls raised in rammed earth (pisé). It is a very interesting construction technique, using modular elements of terracotta channels, as attested in the second phase of domus 7 (first half of the 2nd century BCE). These elements were located both by the header side and by the stretcher side, such as reals lateres, to compose the entire wall thickness. The baths, instead, testify to the early use of baked-bricks, for the floors of the second phase of the hypocausis (first half of the 2nd century BCE).
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specializzazione nella cura dell’ignis sacer, detto anche Fuoco di Sant’Antonio. Con tale
denominazione si definiva un vasta gamma di patologie dai sintomi ritenuti simili. Sebbene
oggi si tenda a riconoscere nel fuoco di Sant’Antonio principalmente l’ergotismo cancrenoso
(intossicazione alimentare), il presente contributo, basandosi sulla rappresentazione di uno
degli attributi del Santo (il maiale), conferma, per un determinato ambito geografico, la
prevalente origine virale della malattia curata dal Santo (herpes zoster).