Sepolture romane dal territorio di Zanica (Bergamo): i ritrovamenti ottocenteschi

In the 19th century four tombs dated to the Roman age were found under fortuitous circumstances in the territory of Zanica. The funerary assemblages were retrieved by Count Paolo Vimercati Sozzi and Gaetano Mantovani; currently the finds are kept at the Bergamo Archaeological Museum. The study of the assemblages and the documentation written by the two Scholars allowed to trace the chronology of three tombs back to the 1st century AD and of the forth one to Late Antiquity. The tombs were framed within a territorial organization of Roman age (streets and centurial system) and related to other similar finds at both a chronological and a topographical level. Finally, continuity was recognized between the Roman cemetery and the one that will develop in the Early Medieval age.