Aquileia: first results from the market excavation and the late antiquity town walls (part two)

The presentation of the research project of the University of Verona's Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà, carried out in the for-mer Pasqualis property in Aquileia, continues with this second paper that aims to discuss the preliminary results of the ex-cavation held in 2018 and 2019. As much as the work is still at the beginning, some important results already came to light. It is about a new market building that was part of the other two already known from previous excavation held in the ’50 and a structured floor surface, possibly a ramp connecting the two city walls via a footpath that was probably used to unload goods and foodstuffs from the river to the market buildings. These structures seem to be part of a monumental market building that most probably was used to sell different types of goods. Its strategic position next to the river from one side and close to the basilica from another could be of great importance to better understand the development of Aquileia during Late Antiquity.