Aggiornamenti sui rivestimenti parietali e pavimentali della villa romana di Aiano, SI (indagini e campagne di scavo 2015-2021)

Since 2005, a Belgian and Italian team has carried out archaeological excavations at the site of the late-antique villa in Aiano (municipality of San Gimignano, Siena, Italy). The settlement was founded between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century AD. Between the late 4th century and the 5th century, the entire area underwent a monumental rearrangement. The building was abandoned at the end of the 5th century and, later on, some rooms were reused as productive ateliers, which dismantled and recycled the decorations of the former villa. The entire settlement was eventually abandoned during the 7th century. The presence of marble and stone decoration inside the villa was already well known before the 2015 campaign, but the archaeological excavations conducted from 2015-2021 added some new information. The aim of this paper is to show the new findings of marble and stone fragments in Aiano, which were originally part of wall and floor revetments. The focus will be on a map of the findings, the provenance of the marbles, and the traces of tool marks they show on their surfaces, thus deeping the knowledge about cutting and reuse of marble and stone inside the site of Aiano.