page_title: Carsulae
section_title: Excavations
hierarchical_section_title: Carsulae / Excavations
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Roman bath excavations in 2016 from Eastern side, one can observe the pilae in hypocaust of the tepidarium. The excavation was directed by Prof. Jane Whitehead of Valdosta State University
context_page_description: Carsulae is an archaeological site in the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is located approximately 4 kilometres north of San Gemini, a small comune in the province of Terni.
context_section_description: Haphazard excavations took place in the 16th century under the direction of Duke Federico Cesi, who sought decorative elements for his palace in Acquasparta. In the 17th century under the Pope Pius VI the first systematic excavations were started in 1783 under Count Sebastiano Graziani of Terni, A. J. Milli in 1800 makes a list of finds discovered in Carsulae during those excavations. [2]
  In 1951 were the ruins came under modern methodical archaeological exploration by then "soprintendente" to archaeological heritage for Umbria, Umberto Ciotti. Significant additional work was also done in 1972. The work of U. Ciotti in Carsulae has  been documented in the  publication of an article Carsuale by Uberto Ciotti in San Gemini e Carsulae, Bestetti 1976  and more recently Carsulae I . Gli scavi di Umberto Ciotti a cura di Paolo Bruschetti, Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini 
  In 2004, after a thirty-year pause in excavation, under the supervision of inspector Paolo Bruschetti, a new excavation campaign was reopened at the Roman Baths directed by Prof. Jane Whitehead of Valdosta State University with the collaboration of the Associazione per la Valorizzazione del Patrimonio Storico San Gemini. In 2020 Prof. Elizabeth Collantoni of the University of Rochester is expected to resume the excavations at the baths taking over the work started by Prof. Jane Whitehead, who retired in 2018.
  
  As of 2017, the excavation at Carsulae is led by Massimiliano Gasperini and Luca Donnini, with the involvement of the Australian Carsulae Archaeology Project from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
caption: Carsuale, Roman bath excavations in 2016 view of the pilae in hypocaust of tepidarium.
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