News has been given of an important archaeological find, it is asculptural work depicting Hercules, Roman name of the Greek hero Heracles and famed for his strength. Hercules is generally represented naked, equipped with a club as his only weapon, and wearing a lion skin over his shoulder or on his arm. Sometimes he wears the animal's head on his head, tying its legs around his waist.
Hercules son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene
The discovery of this statue depicting Hercules took place during work by the Acea Group, a public company in the environmental, energy and water sector of the Capital that has always collaborated with Archaeological Superintendence of Fine Arts and Landscape.
The statue was found by Acea Ato 2 technicians during some renovation operations of a
sewage collector about 10 meters below the ground. As soon as the presence of the finds was detected, the team of technicians immediately reported the find to the Archaeological Superintendency of Fine Arts and Landscape. Acea's collaboration with the bodies set up to protect the historical heritage has always testified to Acea's care and attention towards our artistic heritage in the city of Rome.
Acea has always worked in the cultural sphere. In the operational activities linked to the Group's services, there were frequent cases of discoveries of archaeological sites and artifacts unearthed in the subsoil of the capital. Among them is the find in 2018 at Ponte Milvio of a building from the imperial era during the excavation works carried out by Acea-Areti for interventions on the electricity grid in the area.
Other important discoveries in the past have seen Acea engaged in the front line together with the institutions, such as in 2019, in the discovery of a perfectly preserved skeleton which came to light during some Areti excavations in piazzale Ostiense, in front of the entrance to the Piramide station of the metro line B in Rome.
In 2021 some burial complexes from the second century AD were found less than a meter underground in Via Luigi Tosti in the Appio Latino district, during activities on the water network.
