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G Ciochetto et al., « Indagini geofisiche Radar multifrequenziale, elettrostatica e multielettrodo in Prato della Valle (Padova) per il rilevamento del Teatro Romano “Zairo” », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.311d25...
The foundations of the Roman Theatre "Zairo" were discovered, about 1.5 m deep, in 1775 during the land reclamation works of the swampy aren of Prato della Valle - Padua. The theatre wns completely destroyed during Middle Age and Rinascimento by people who used it like building material quarry for the new S. Giustina Clwrch.Today the aren is partially occupied by a channel, a lawn and a big asphalted square, parts of the foundations, the radial walls, are still visible at the bottom of the channel used to reclaiming the area.In the square and the lawn were carried out three geophysical surveys: the first employing capacitive electrodes, the second with a multifrequency GPR array (200 - 600 MHz), in mono and bistatic mode, and the last with multielectrode system.All methods gave good results, theatre structural elements, like the radial walls under the lawn and asphalted road and the foundations of the orchestra and scena, have been resolved. The capacitive electrodes survey covered only a part of GPR area. ln the overlapping area we could see a good correlation between the two methods results. GPR could map structures in the area not covered by Capacitive and Multielectrode systems, confirmed the results and allowed to better locate a powered electrical line.