In the area of Civita Giuliana, north of the ancient city of Pompeii, a large residence known as Villa Imperiali had already been identified in the early 20th century. Starting in 2017 and then in 2019, thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed with the Public Prosecutor's Office of Torre Annunziata, the Pompeii Archaeological Park launched excavation campaigns that halted the systematic looting that had affected the villa for years and returned new data and exceptional finds. The investigations of 2023-'24 focused along the stretch of the current via di Civita Giuliana investigating for the first time an area interposed between the two already known sectors, the residential one to the north and the Servants’ Quarter to the south, in order to verify the reliability of the information recovered from the judicial investigations conducted by the Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office. Among the important discoveries involving the villa, the latest of which was the Carpenters' Room, there also emerged a Sacellum, a room dedicated to religious worship, located at a hinge point between the service sector (with stables and the slave room) to the south and the residential complex to the north of the villa.
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