STATIO 61

Excavated: 1881 (no excavation report published; Lanciani); 1970 (Pohl 1987, trench h).
Mosaic: ---.
Inscription: ---.
Date: ---.
Meas. of tesserae: ---.

Photos and drawings:
  • Front room and back room (centre) (gh2)
  • Statio 61 behind the room with the Altar of the Origins of Rome (from the south-east) (Van Haeperen 2019, fig. 95)

  • Mosaic

    General description

    The floor of the back room is covered with earth. Nothing is preserved of the floor of the front room. On NADIS inv. nr. 644 four fragments of a mosaic can be seen in the front room and in the passage between the front room and the back room. It seems to have continued in the front room to the south (a narrow room without a number).

    Text

    No text has been preserved.

    Depictions

    No depictions have been preserved. According to the NADIS plan the mosaic had a geometric design of small, alternating black and white squares, in the passage with a corner of the squares pointing downward.


    Masonry

    The back wall of the back room is of opus reticulatum. There is no south or north wall. There seem to be remains of plaster / stucco on the central, southern brick column. No plinths have been preserved around the central columns. The foundation of a dividing wall between the back rooms of stationes 60 and 61 was found (excavation Pohl). The back room ended its existence at the Claudian level; whether it ever was at the final level cannot be said, due to late antique digging in the room (excavation Pohl).

    The small room to the south of statio 61 has not been assigned a number, like the room to the south of statio 1. On Lanciani's plan a wall blocks the passage between the front and back room of this small room. It is not present on the plans of Vaglieri and Gismondi.


    Interpretation

    The state of preservation allows no further interpretation.