New traces of Roman Agrigento are emerging from the Valley of the Temples. During excavations conducted by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa within the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, remains of frescoes, architectural elements, and stucco dating to the 1st century B.C. were discovered, evidence of a building constructed when Sicily was already fully integrated into Rome’s sphere of influence.
The artifacts come from what remains of an ancient building located just south ofthe ekklesiasterion, the auditorium used for assemblies of the free citizens of ancient Akragas. The decorative elements may have belonged to the peristyle of a domus or to a monumental portico built during the Roman period.
