ROME, ITALY.- The Oleari Papali in the Baths of Diocletian presents more than one thousand artefacts, excavated in the past twenty years and never before exhibited to the public. This is an opportunity to acquaint the public with the countless testimonies of antiquity that Rome and its suburbia continue to produce. The excavations conducted day after day indeed confirm that the largest archaeological museum in the world still lies buried beneath the city.

Many artefacts come from the central archaeological area, from the Meta Sudans excavations and, in particular, from the Palatine, such as the tiger made of coloured marble. It is mainly the suburbs, however, that yield the most numerous and significant materials that contribute to defining the housing layout of the Roman countryside in antiquity. From the suburbia of Rome come the sumptuous sarcophagus of the newlyweds, recently discovered at Lunghezzina, the gold bracelet with decorations in vitreous paste found in the Ostiense district, the archaised herm in red marble found at Vernicino, the furnishings of a late-Etruscan home found on the Via Aurelia, and the rich grave goods of a tomb located on the Laurentina, recomposed with all of its pieces for the first time in this exhibition.