I ritrovamenti archeologici a Sant'Angelo della Polvere nei manoscritti di Giovanni Casoni

Th e paper aims at off ering a reinterpretation of some unpublished manuscripts by Giovanni Casoni, a Venetian engineer who lived in the 19th century, that were dedicated to the discovery of a funerary altar with an interesting inscription, on Sant’Angelo della Polvere island, in the central part of the Venice Lagoon. Thanks to an in depth study on the archaeological elements highlighted in the manuscripts and thanks to a contextualization of the altar in the known ancient settlements, a new perspective of this artefact is proposed, also with some data related to the Ro- man gens quoted in the epigraphy.