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Abstract

This work is the result of a collaboration among various specialists and is divided into two parts: one is dedicated to historical, archaeological and architectural investigations of the building and its territorial context, and the other is focused on studying all types of materials (ceramics, metals, glass, sculpture fragments, archaeozoological findings) and presenting related archaeometric analyses carried out on mortars, bricks, calcarenites, pigments, clay deposits and ceramics. In addition, valuable tools for understanding, analysis and study are appended to the volume, including the entire collection of plans, perspective studies, and graphic and photographic documentation of the epigraphic frieze. The primary value of this work is that it proposes a detailed sequence of the historical and construction events related to the complex during its long duration from the 10th to the 19th centuries. This is an achievement that required the careful integration of archival historical documentation, interpretations of the stratigraphic data from all the archaeological surveys carried out between 1992 and 2001 and in 2006, a reading of the architectural features, and the typological and archaeometric study of archaeological materials.