Subject
Preliminary report published by Lorenzo Fortunati on the discovery of the “Basilica di Santo Stefano Protomartire” on the Via Latina. Fortunati, with a team of 54 workers, carried out excavations in 1857-58 in the Tenuta “del Corvo” or “Arco di Travertino”, a property belonging to the Barberini-Lante della Rovere and Belardi families. The campaign resulted in the identification of the early Christian basilica dedicated to Saint Stephen Protomartyr.
Accession number 2897195 / 3549
1858
Author
Lorenzo Fortunati
Italian Publisher
Tipografia Tiberina
Placement
German Archaeological Institute
Credits
German Archaeological Institute
References
Brevi cenni intorno allo scoprimento della basilica del primo martire della chiesa S. Stefano ed altri monumenti sacri e profani lungo la via Latina a 3 miglia da Roma, vol. 1, by Lorenzo Fortunati, Rome 1858.
