In the archaeological complex of Villa Arianna in Stabiae, the excavation and restoration project conducted by the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg under the scientific direction of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and with the coordination of the RAS (Restoring Ancient Stabiae) Foundation continues for the ninth consecutive year.
At the centre of this project is room 71 of the ancient villa: a cryptoporticus probably undergoing redevelopment before the eruption in 79 AD.
The investigations conducted on the long corridor, already partially subject to a cleaning and restoration intervention in the summer of 2017, have confirmed that the entire environment in the XNUMXth century, at the conclusion of the excavation campaigns conducted by the Bourbons, had been used as a landfill area for a large quantity of elements coming from various sectors of Villa Arianna.
The most interesting element that emerged during last year's excavation campaign was the discovery of an intact section of the collapsed part of the ceiling and the remains of the plaster layer of the reeds of room 71.
The summer 2018 project involved extending the work begun last season southwards (over a further 30 m79) in order to acquire more information on the dynamics of the 13th century excavation and on the state of this sector of the villa in the moments immediately preceding its destruction in XNUMX AD. The working group, composed of XNUMX Russian and Italian archaeologists and restorers, was involved in both excavation and restoration activities and in the preliminary study of the numerous materials found in the Bourbon backfill layer.
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