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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2024
In a short afterword to this Festschrift for our dear, sadly prematurely-departed friend and colleague Hanna, it is difficult to do justice to her talents and personality, but I shall try to convey the spirit of her rich contribution to the lives of all of us who knew her professionally or socially.
Firstly let me speak about her archaeological accomplishments. Reviewing the bibliography printed at the end of this volume we discover things most people, even many of her colleagues, were unaware of. She first studied at the University of Malta, and was soon active on excavations by leading local fieldworkers – in fact she never lost touch with these friends and returned occasionally to write one or two pieces on the island's archaeology or take renewed part in their activities. Many of us have had the pleasure of being entertained by, or even staying with, Hanna, Mario and Mario's mother at their seaside villa on the island. Once into a research field, Hanna was always enthusiastic about getting involved with it again when chance arose. I saw this at first hand when Hanna accompanied me and my Maltese doctoral student, George Said-Zammit, as we visited historic houses for his pioneering PhD on the history of domestic architecture on Malta.
Moving to Leiden for her MA in Classical Archaeology, Hanna was taken up by Bouke van der Meer to assist him in mapping and interpreting the Domus Fulminata in Ostia. Here she found her lifetime focus, beginning with a small-scale study of the house entrances in this city, the main port of Rome for her dissertation. As convenor of the course I noticed quickly that Hanna, as a mature student and experienced archaeologist, soon became the natural focus of the MA year she belonged to, but for us lecturers her wide knowledge and confident questioning revealed a talent we should, and indeed did, encourage. I had become aware some time earlier of the emerging field of interpreting the built environment called Space Syntax, founded by Professor Bill Hillier at University College, London, and suggested to Hanna that she might find this an exciting approach to develop her research into ancient towns and homes in a new and innovative direction.
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