Adriano e il Palatino: soluzioni costruttive, sviluppo urbanistico e destinazione funzionale dei settori occidentali e meridionali della Domus Tiberiana

The research launched in 2013 by the former Soprintendenza Speciale of Rome, carried out in parallel with the restoration work already underway for many years, aims to promote a new organic and comprehensive study of the Domus Tiberiana. The stratigraphic analysis of walls and building techniques, including also the buildings located along the northern edge of the Nova Via, has made it possible to reconsider in more detail the extensive Hadrianic building phase, already identified by previous research starting from the work of E.B. Van Deman. In addition, the wider complex of transformations carried out in this same period throughout the western sector of the Palatine can only be fully understood by comparison with the operations carried out on the southern side of the Domus Tiberiana and in the sanctuary of the Magna Mater. In this contribution we propose for the first time an overview of all the whole Domus Tiberiana, whose slopes were rebuilt in the Hadrianic age. New systems of substructures were created, as well as a complex system of roads and service districts connected to the upper level of the palace.