Overview

• The round monument is estimated at about six meters high with an interior diameter near 15 meters, a scale that suggests an elite owner.
• Its architecture closely resembles Rome’s Mausoleum of Augustus, pointing to an Augustan‑era date in the early Roman Empire.
• Only around two meters of the structure have been exposed so far by a field school that restarted excavations in 2024 with about fifteen students.
• The team notes that comparable chambers are often found looted, so the chances of intact remains or inscriptions remain uncertain.
• On a nearby trench, archaeologists also uncovered the remains of three shops that could illuminate local commercial life in antiquity.