Le necropoli di Suasa: la cultura funeraria di un centro romano dell'ager Gallicus

Over the course of more than thirty years of archaeological investigations conducted by researchers at the University of Bologna on the site of the ancient Roman city of Suasa, in the ager Gallicus (corresponding to today's northern Marche region), three necropolises and a late cemetery were brought to light. The necropolises are located along the main access roads to the city and date between the late Republican and the late Imperial Age. There are both burial burials and incinerations, as well as some funerary monuments from the Julio-Claudian Age. Among these is the recent discovery of the Eastern Necropolis, which housed a few day-cippings in the northern sector and a square lot bounded by stones inscribed in the southern sector. Finally, a cemetery dating back to the late antique and early medieval age was also investigated, planted in the garden of one of the main urban dwellings in the last phases of the city's life. This rich exemplification of burial areas allows us to draw some considerations on the evolution of the funerary culture of this Middle-Adriatic centre over a large part of its historical parable.