Archeological Area under

Piazza Cavallotti

Excavations in Piazza Cavallotti in 1983-4 discovered important remains from ancient Perugia.

• A tract of road marked by the wheels of carriages has been tentatively identified as Via Thorrena, which is mentioned in an inscription (probably 1st century BC) that was found in 1965 under Palazzo Danzetta Florenzi (see Walk II) and is now in the Museo Archeologico.  This records that the duoviro Caius Firmius Gallus paved a road with this name that ran from the alter of Silvanus to the "aream Tlennasi" (perhaps the property of a family with the Etruscan name Tlennasi). 

• A water channel runs along the road and probably fed what seems to have been a semi-circular fountain.
  

• This fountain was decorated with a mosaic of tesserae of pink stone in about the 3rd century AD.

A large number of cult objects (3rd – 1st centuries BC) was found dumped in a ditch nearby.

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