Messa a punto di una cronotipologia delle tecniche murarie di epoca romana in Molise

The research project carried out during the PHD in “Innovation and management of public resources”at the University of Molise (Italy), aims to trace a cognitive framework on the subject of Roman masonry techniques in a chronological time frame that goes from the last years of the republican age up to the advanced second century. A.D. The study range refers to the 3 ancient division of the Roman empire in the the current administrative limits of Molise region: regio I Latium et Campania with the site of Venafrum, regio II Apulia et Calabria with the site of Larinum , and the regio IV Sabina et Samnium with the sites of Saepinum-Altilia and the c.d. Villa dei Neratii in the municipality of San Giuliano del Sannio (CB). The most recent methodologies for the analysis of the masonry facings within the discipline of archeology of the architecture were used to develop a chronotypology of the masonry techniques The work has been carried out with an innovative interdisciplinary approach based on the fine-tuning of a methodology with metric andparametric analysis of the samples. This new approach has been shared with other works, previously carried out, in the sites of Olimpia, Ostia and Cuma and has been modified including a more of more specific and efficient analysis thanks also to the use of "vertical" GIS (Geographic Information Systems). The data collected in this way also merged into ACoR (Atlas des techniques de la Construction Romaine), an international database, resulting from the work of expert researchers team that offered the possibility to include the archeology of Molise in an international study context. From a territorial point of view, the surveyed emergencies were managed using a GIS platform - GIS Tecniche Masonry Project of MOLISE, which provides, among the main features, a connection via hyperlink to the ACoR platform. The case studies relate to various construction typologies both in the private building sector and in the public building sector and are mostly centered on the sampling of facings in situ at 45° except for the city of Venafro where the sampling has also interested in other types of walls. The final objective pursued and partially achieved in this research work was to offer a contribution through the use of an extremely exhaustive analysis, filing and geolocation system in an area that has not yet been investigated and where information on the subject of architectures are for this era extremely fragmentary and little known. The work therefore constitutes a knowledge base on which to integrate new information in order to create a most complete and exhaustive picture possible on Roman masonry techniques in Molise.