Pons lapidis. Nuovi documenti per la morfologia, la storia edilizia e la continuità insediativa postantica del ponte romano nell'Archivio Storico Comunale di Parma

This work considers documents of the ancient settlement of Parma concerning pons lapidis, ie the Parma roman bridge. Of the bridge, in course of scientific publication within the Projects “S.F.E.R.A.” and “Aemilia 187 BC,” the papers document the history of the discovery, the morphology in ancient times, the sequence of post-ancient arrangements until today. The documents include also the only survey available today of no longer visible arches and the exchange of correspondence between the council and the archaeological museum in the period from the discovery of the ruins to their subsequent burial under the modern town. Since only two of the ten overall arches of the bridge remain in sight today, the archive documents offer new and essential data to re-establish shape, dating, building phases, construction technique and settlement history of the bridge within the roman colony.