La colonia e il suo paesaggio rurale. Aspetti archeologici, topografici ed economicoamministrativi del territorio di Tuder tra I sec. a.C. e I sec. d.C.

Abstract

The study proposes a reconstruction of the rural landscape and the economicadministrative aspects of the territory of Tuder. The research is based on the examination of the edit data and new archaeological excavations conducted by the University of Perugia at the locality l’Affitto. The acquired data offer the opportunity to observe that the exploitation of the rural territory occurred around the end of the I century. B.C., when Augustus transform the city in colonia. This planning foresaw the subdivision of the territory into sub-areas administered by few important citizens, who built in these areas some ville composed by a pars urbana and a pars fructuaria.