(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 17 – (by Silvia Lambertucci)
Walls with massive square areas, where the yellow of the base
contrasted with the intense crimson and black of the central band,
the colours interspersed with fragile decorations of flowers
and candelabra, niches for statues and even probably the very
superior ceiling illuminated by a deep blue like an August sky.
   
Crafted at the dawn of the very first century Advertisement when Augustus reigned
around Rome, the great Roman temple of Cupra near Ascoli Piceno
was in the to start with section of its life crammed with colors and
visuals in the third Pompeian style, with the same hues and the
exact same decoration that at the time were being proven off to their ideal
effect in the richest houses of Rome and Pompeii.
   
This is the discovery, unforeseen and incredible, as Naples
University archaeologist Marco Giglio tells ANSA in an
distinctive, that has appear from the Marche archaeological web site,
where by a mission by the Università Orientale, in collaboration
with the superintendency and the town council of Cupra
Marittima, which operates the Archaeological Park, has carried out a
new marketing campaign of excavation.
   
“The temples with the inside of of the cell decorated with
paintings are really scarce,” Giglio points out.
   
“Up till now we experienced only known a single in the III model, that of
the Bona Dea (Fantastic Goddess) at Ostia, the place, nevertheless, the
decorative design and style appeared considerably less difficult, as very well as the
cryptoporticus of the shrine of Urbis Salvia (at modern day
Urbisaglia, near Macerata)”.
   
The scientific director of the digs, Fabrizio Pesando of the
Orientale in Naples, goes on to reveal, together with Giglio, that
in this corner of Marche, not considerably from the sea and a limited way
from the place the Etruscans in the VI century BC efficiently ran a
shrine committed to commerce, the Romans had settled close to 100
BC, with a ‘municipium’ that was then promoted to the rank of
colony.
   
Inhabited by households of the armies of Mark Antony and Octavian
and their descendants, Cupra, which had taken its name from the
divinity of that temple (the historian Strabo suggests Cupra was
another name for Hera),…