R131: Via Paisiello, Rome

Imperial Rome

M406>FGC5089>FGC5081>L14>FGC5155>BY157773.

Location: Rome: Via Paisiello (Necropoli Salaria).  Sample R131 from Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean was found in Rome during the Imperial Roman period about 0 BC. This sample doesn't have enough coverage to add to YFULL and was originally determined by the authors of this study to be G-FGC5089.  According to further analysis by noted Haplogroup G researcher Ted Kandell, the sample is positive for several mutations associated with G-L14.  Additionally, Kandell's Global 25 autosomal analysis led him to conclude that the sample was 100% a South Italian Greek.

BY157773 TMRCA per FTDNA 5/1/2023: 2,000 BC.
Modern day Armenians and Turks in this subclade.

Global 25:
ITA_Rome_Imperial:RMPR131__AD_100__Cov_46.89%,0.111547,0.150298,-0.004148,-0.046512,0.006155,-0.004462,-0.008225,-0.004154,0.007567,0.018406,0.001299,0.001798,-0.002527,-0.006055,-0.005293,0.002121,0.007171,0.004307,0.002891,-0.010755,0.000374,0.008656,-0.009983,-0.003615,0.001437

GLOBAL25 MODERN CLUSTERING:

"The Via Paisiello Mauselium is a vast funeral area with a very long life was found, ranging from the 1st century to BCE. to the IV sec. CE (180). The necropolis is located in northern Rome, near Villa Borghese, where in the Roman age the immense Necropolis Salaria extended, of the size of 24 hectares (187, 188). In this excavation many pit graves have been found, tombs with niches, shaped tombs, primary incinerations (busta sepulchra), 40 secondary incinerations inside ollae and inside amphorae. The remains of real mausoleums and a columbarium in opus reticulatum, hypogea and perhaps a ustrinum have also been identified. The vast area found, connected to an important ancient road system, the Salaria vetus, highlighted the skeletal remains of 88 individuals, whose osteological remains are in poor condition. 18 incinerations were also found, of which 6 primary (busta sepulchra) and 12 secondary. The cremated individuals are all adults and mostly female."

Supplementary materials can be downloaded here.

Of further interest is a A Collection of Inscriptions from the Via Salaria Necropolis Now in the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky published in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 53 (2008), pp. 27-78 (52 pages) by Linda M. Gigante and George W. Houston which can be accessed here.

Principal Component Analysis of Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean samples using Dodecad Global 13 for the Vahaduo 3D PCA  (data found here)