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Joint Use of Geomatic and Geophysical Methods for the Survey and Documentation of the Vespasian’s Thermal Baths (Cittaducale, Rieti, Italy)

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The paper is related to the in-depth study of the route and characterization of a stretch of the ancient Via Salaria, an ancient Roman consular road, which connected Rome with Porto d’Ascoli on the Adriatic Sea. Researches were focused in the archaeological area of the Baths of Vespasian, also called Baths of Cotilia, in Cittaducale near Rieti in central Italy. The study of the sources, the analysis of the wall palimpsests and the interpretation of the results carried out return a much more articulated overall picture than what is currently visible, entirely resembling a territorial compartment characterized by a scattered settlement. A 3D laser scanner and digital photogrammetric survey of the structures was carried out, supplemented with a campaign of geophysical surveys (GPR). The results show interesting anomalies related to the roadway and adjacent structures, taking into account the transformations that the whole system must have undergone in subsequent epochs.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the “Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’Area metropolitana di Roma e la provincia di Rieti” for the scientific support and RES-DATA Lab of CNR ISPC for some LIDAR acquisition on the area.

Funding

The research activity of the CNR-ISPC unit was developed within the Project “Stone road paving. History, conservation, valorization and project” (20174JW7ZL), funded in 2017 by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in the frame of the action “Projects of Relevant National Interest (PRIN)”.

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  1. Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC), National Research Council (CNR), Via Salaria Km. 29,300, Monterotondo St., 00015, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Angelini, Marilena Cozzolino, Barbara Foschi & Roberto Gabrielli

  2. Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis Snc, 86100, Campobasso, Italy

    Marilena Cozzolino, Vincenzo Gentile & Paolo Mauriello

  3. Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC), National Research Council (CNR), Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 8, 80134, Napoli, NA, Italy

    Eleonora Scopinaro

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Andrea Angelini and Roberto Gabrielli are the Principal Investigators of the CNR-ISPC unit in the PRIN Project. They directed geomatic surveys with the collaboration of Eleonora Scopinaro and Barbara Foschi. Marilena Cozzolino, Vincenzo Gentile and Paolo Mauriello were responsible of the geophysical researches.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Chiara Garau

  4. Faculty of Information Technology, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Algoritmi Research Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  6. Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Maria Noelia Faginas Lago

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Angelini, A. et al. (2024). Joint Use of Geomatic and Geophysical Methods for the Survey and Documentation of the Vespasian’s Thermal Baths (Cittaducale, Rieti, Italy). In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65332-2_25

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