Ricerc@Sapienza

Two new epigraphical fragments, found in the recent excavations of the “cathedral” of Privernum, reveal a singular history of epigraphic and building reuse. A marble slab is first used to contain the local Fasti. Afterwards, probably at the beginning of the IV century, the slab is rotated 180 ° and is now used to contain a new document, official
and public as well, perhaps a cadastre: the reuse hides the previous inscription. Some centuries later, the slab becomes a building material and the two inscriptions, born to be exposed, are reduced in fragments and removed from the public view: their hidden position has paradoxically preserved them up to us.