[2] In addition, she prepared the conclusions of the symposium on sixth and seventh century ceramics in Italy that was held at Rome in honour of John W. Hayes, published as Ceramica in Italia: VI-VII secolo: Atti del Convengo in onore di John W. Hayes, Roma 11-13 maggio 1995, L. Sagui, editor (Florence: Edizioni All’Insegna del Giglio, in series Biblioteca di Archeologia Medievale 14) 1998.
Nearby, on the lower slopes of the Palatine, her recent excavations showed traces of religious cult dating as far back as the late seventh century BCE.
[4] With Patrizio Pensabene she co-edited Arco di Constantino, tra archeologia e archeometria, which summed up the new interpretation of the Arch of Constantine as entirely scavenged sculptural elements reused and modified from a Hadrianic context.
In June, the discovery of a carefully secreted wooden box containing imperial scepters and ceremonial lance-heads and halberds, dating to the fourth century.
[7][8] The following month her report that her team had uncovered the frescoed corridor of a grand aristocratic domus of the first century BCE, the so-called Palatine House,[9] led to hopes that it may prove to be the birthplace of Augustus.