Rubbish and public memory at the Stabian Gate when archaeology defines an urban gateway

Between 2021 and 2024, the excavation of the enclosures of M. Tullius and M. Alleius Minius, located at Porta Stabia, made it possible to study the city's entrance and its development between the 2nd century BC and the Imperial period. It was possible to identify 2nd century BC backfills with an external constructed surface, cut into by what appears to be a ditch at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Most notably, the various trenches revealed that these areas, located east of the city's access road, were filled with urban waste before the construction of a platform at the beginning of our era, designed to accommodate the funerary monuments of the city's nobility, starting with M. Tullius and M. Alleius Minius.