STUCCHI INEDITI DA UN EDIFICIO DELL'AREA CENTRALE DEL FORO ROMANO ASPETTI STORICO-ARTISTICI E INQUADRAMENTO TOPOGRAFICO DI UN POSSIBILE MONUMENTO TRAIANEO

Starting from study of some stuccoes laid out on bipedal bricks, found above the foundations of a building in the central area of the Roman Forum, the research proposes an historical-artistic analysis of the decoration of the vault to which the fragments belonged and suggests a reconstruction of the ornamental scheme, which recalls patterns in Fourth Style ceilings. Although the iconography and style might suggest a dating in the Neronian-Flavian period, the technique of using intradossal brick mantles in the vaults points rather to a chronology between the second half of the 1ˢᵗ and the beginning of the 2ⁿᵈ century AD. The scant remains of the structure which the stuccoes come from, originally a monument with opus sectile floor and parietal crustae, are insufficient evidence to determine its function. The location of the building seems incompatible with the Equus Domitiani, which suggests that it could date back to Trajan's reign.