The so-called villa delle Marignane, in the northern boundary of modern Aquileia, is a rich residential compound
of Late-Roman age excavated between 1954 and 1955 and long since no more to see. Frequently cited in modern
literature as the Palatium of Aquileia but not really well-known due to lack of reliable archaeological evidence
(only a preliminary report was published by the chief-director of the excavation, the late dr. G.B. Brusin), the
‘villa’ is now studied on the ground of a number of unpublished photos uncovered in the Archive of the Soprintendenza
per i Beni Archeologici del Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The paper offers a overall account of the wall
structures and mosaics, as well as of the later cemeterial reuse of the area. A partially geo-referenced plan of the
excavation has been elaborated by dr. Alberto Savioli through digital rectification of the photographic images
(Appendice 1). In a strictly related appendix dr. Elena Braidotti proposes a thorough typological catalogue and
a preliminary study of all anfora-graves recognizable in the cemeterial areas.
