As John Rickard notes for, the siege took place during the Social War, a three-year clash between the Roman Republic and its longtime allies, who wanted to be recognized as Roman citizens. Its previous occupants, the Samnites, a group of powerful tribes from the mountainous south-central Apennine region, retook the city in 90 B.C. Roman forces first captured Isernia around 295 B.C.
Throughout the first century B.C., neighboring powers in Italy fought for control of the small town, which was strategically located as a “gateway” for expansion into the peninsula, writes Barbara Fino for local newspaper Il Giornale del Molise. The find testifies to the Romans’ presence in the ancient colony of Isernia, then known as Aesernia. Per a separate report from isNews, Mayor Giacomo D’Apollonio announced that the rare artifact will remain in Isernia and eventually go on display in the nearby Museum of Santa Maria Delle Monache. “Because behind the walls of a city its history, which cannot be pierced with a concrete. “Yes, it is really him, the emperor Augustus, found today during the excavation,” writes the Archaeological Superintendency of Molise in the statement, per a translation by ARTNews’ Claire Selvin. Instead, the archaeologists-who began work on March 30-are striving to restore the walls in a way that strengthens their structural integrity while preserving their cultural heritage. Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Molise “We highlighted that the solution was not feasible, not in the least because the piling would have risked destroying the foundation of the walls and any traces of ancient presence in the area,” the pair explained, per Google Translate.Ĭonstruction workers happened upon this marble head while excavating and restoring a historic city wall in a small southern Italian town. Speaking with isNews, superintendent Dora Catalano and archaeologist Maria Diletta Colombo, both of whom are overseeing the new project, said that some locals had proposed supporting the historic walls with concrete pillars. As local news station isNewsnotes, the walls collapsed during previous excavation work efforts to rebuild them have proven controversial in the small town. Scholars discovered the head while renovating Isernia’s historic city walls, parts of which were constructed under imperial Rome, reports Italian news agency ANSA. Besides a badly damaged nose-and the loss of the rest of its body-the head has remained relatively intact, according to a statement released on Facebook by the local government’s archaeology department.
The adoptive son of Julius Caesar, Augustus oversaw a period of immense colonization and imperial growth. Researchers suspect that the marble figure depicts Augustus, who ruled as the first Roman emperor from 27 B.C. Last week, construction workers conducting renovations in Isernia, a town in south-central Italy, unearthed a long-lost portrait of an ancient ruler: namely, a weathered marble head that dates to the days of the Roman Empire.
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