La Basilica 'Circiforme' Della Via Ardeatina (Basilica Marci) a Roma

The volume conveys the throughout results of the excavation campaigns carried out, from 1993 to 1996, in the ambulatory basilica of Via Ardeatina in Rome, which was discovered in 1992 and identified with the church built by Pope Mark in 336 at the second mile of the road, where the pontiff was buried. The stratigraphic sequence, which develops from the early imperial age to the modern age, is complete and allows to reconstruct in detail the phases of installation and use of the funerary basilica until the seventh century, the continuity of attendance and the times of the plundering and abandonment of the building. The edition is complete with all the materials (coins, inscriptions, marble, bricks, objects for personal use, ceramics, glass), divided by type. The contributions about ceramics and glass findings are included with proper by data tables and in text plates.