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NOTES FROM ROME 2014–15
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
Abstract
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2014, but also in the first part of 2015), gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions and newspaper reports.
Questa gazzetta ha lo scopo di presentare ad un lettore fuori Roma notizie della recente attività archeologica (principalmente per il 2014, ma anche per gli inizi del 2015), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
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1 Studi e scavi sull'Aventino (2003–2015), organized by the SS-Col in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. The conference, which also featured papers of a historical nature, will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
2 On the domus, see: Cavallo, D., ‘Precisazioni sulla domus Pactumeiorum sull'Aventino attraverso una pianta ritrovata all'Archivio Centrale dello Stato di Roma’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma 88 (1982–3), 213–23Google Scholar; Giuliani, S., ‘Un ninfeo dell'Aventino: scoperta di un monumento inedito e della sua decorazione architettonica’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma 107 (2006), 83–5Google Scholar.
3 The hoard is mentioned briefly in P. Quaranta, R. Pardi, B. Ciarrocchi and A. Capodiferro, ‘Il ‘giorno dopo’ all'Aventino. Dati preliminari dai contesti di scavo’, in J. Lipps, C. Machado and P. Von Rummel (eds), The Sack of Rome in 410 ad (Palilia 28) (Wiesbaden, 2013), 188–9. There were 21 coins, from the reigns of Constantius II and Julian, eight of which had been clipped.
4 On the ‘Casa Bellezza’, see F. Boldrighini, Domus picta (Milan, 2003).
5 The fragment represents the polos, or nimbus, of the goddess.
6 See R. Lanciani, Forma Urbis Romae (Rome, 1990), tav. 45; M. Eisner, Zur Typologie der Grabbauten in Suburbium Roma (Mainz, 1986), 25–7; P. Montanari, Sepolcri circolari di Roma e suburbia (Pisa, 2009), 52.
7 The results were illustrated at two lectures by the site's archaeological director, Rossella Rea (SS-Col). See Corriere della Sera 15 August 2014, La Repubblica 3 December 2014 and 4 December 2014 (newspaper reports cited here may be found at www.patrimoniosos.it, in the Rassegna Stampa section).
8 Rea, R., ‘Metropolitana di Roma Linea C. Stazione San Giovanni. Dati sulla cintura ortiva intorno a Roma tra la fine del I sec. a.C. e il III secolo’, Bollettino di Archeologia On Line 2 (2011), 21–42 Google Scholar.
9 Corriere della Sera 30 March 2015.
10 See in particular Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2009–10’, Papers of the British School at Rome 78 (2010), 289–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
11 The current state of the project is summarized in La Repubblica 23 April 2015.
12 L'Unità 1 June 2014; Corriere della Sera 23 June 2014.
13 Il Giornale 29 May 2015. On the arch, whose inscription is preserved in the Einsiedeln Sylloge (CIL VI 944), see P. Ciancio Rossetto, ‘Arcus Titi (Circus Maximus)’, in E.M. Steinby (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae I (A–C) (Rome 1993), 108–9. On the new excavations, directed by Marialetizia Buonfiglio, see Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2010–11’, Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (2011), 357CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
14 Works directed by Rita Paris (SS-Col). L'Unità 1 June 2014.
15 The works were carried out by Tor Vergata University, in collaboration with the SS-Col (quotidiano.net 7 June 2014).
16 The site was discovered in 2013–14 during works to build a multistorey car park (since abandoned) — Il Fatto Quotidiano 12 December 2014; La Repubblica 16 March 2015.
17 La Repubblica 25 July 2014 and 26 July 2014. The director of the works was Laura Cianfriglia (SS-Col).
18 Five years ago, excavations in the same sector of the Via Portuensis encountered a part of one of the baths, dating to the first century ad (Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes 2009–10’ (above, n. 20), 292).
19 La Repubblica 28 March 2015; Corriere della Sera 29 March 2015. The museum is open ten days a month (Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and occasional Sundays).
20 La Repubblica 30 March 2015. The museum, in via Egidio Galbani, is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 9.00–14.00 (10.00–14.00 at weekends).
21 On the new gardens, a portion of which opened in March 2015, see La Repubblica 25 March 2015 and Corriere della Sera 2 April 2015. A summary of the restoration works, with photographs, appeared in Archeologia Viva, September–October 2014, 74–8.
22 C. Gasparri and M.A. Tomei (eds), Museo Palatino. Le collezioni (Milan, 2014).
23 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2013–14’, Papers of the British School at Rome 82 (2014), 316CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
24 Preliminary report: S. Coccia, ‘Foro romano. Nuovi scavi nell'area del Vico Jugario’, in L. Paroli and L. Venditelli (eds), Roma dall'antichità al medioevo I (Milan, 2001), 596–9.
25 A report describing the new discoveries, as well as other initiatives in the bimillenary celebration, is available on the ministerial website: http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.html_739972651.html.
26 On the pieces, see E.M. Steinby (ed.), Lacus Iuturnae I (Rome, 1989), 37–9, 177–222, 264, 270–3.
27 L'Unità 1 June 2014.
28 The debate has continued since before the road was closed to all traffic except for buses and taxis. On one side, Andrea Carandini and Adriano La Regina have been particularly vocal in favour of the ‘parco’ (Corriere della Sera 30 October 2012; La Repubblica 3 August 2013; Corriere della Sera 7 August 2014 and 31 December 2014). The case against closure is put eloquently by Umberto Croppi (huffintonpost.it 23 March 2014), Andrea Giardina (Il Tempo 16 June 2013) and Luciano Canfora (Il Messaggero 7 July 2013).
29 This is the question of the sites' ‘legibility’, raised during the closing debate on the new excavations reported in Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008), 301CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
30 The project, directed by Roberto Meneghini, is sketched in Corriere della Sera 21 March 2015. As may be expected, it has aroused polemic: see Corriere della Sera 5 April 2015, with a reply from the Superintendent, Claudio Parisi Presicce, in Corriere della Sera 7 April 2015.
31 The bulk of the finance will be provided by the Uzbek magnate and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov (La Repubblica 15 April 2014).
32 La Repubblica 21 May 2015. As of June 2015 the architectural marbles were still in course of arrangement.
33 Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes 2010–11’ (above, n. 13), 355. A new catalogue has been issued: A. Friggeri and M. Magnani Cianetti (eds), Terme di Diocleziano. Il chiostro piccolo della Certosa di Santa Maria degli Angeli (Milan, 2014).
34 Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes 2010–11’ (above, n. 13), 357.
35 R. Friggeri, M. Magnani Cianetti and H. von Hesberg, ‘La natatio’, in R. Friggeri and M. Magnani Cianetti (eds), Le Terme di Diocleziano. La Certosa di Santa Maria degli Angeli (Milan, 2014), 162–85.
36 R. Paris, ‘Il salone E1 oecus’, in M. Barbera and R. Paris (eds), Antiche stanze. Un quartiere di Roma imperiale nella zona di Termini (Milan, 1996), 108–11.
37 A useful preliminary report on the excavation, which represents a collaboration between the SS-Col and the Universities of Basilicata and Tor Vergata, may be found at: http://www2.unibas.it/ssa/index.php/en/gabii.
38 Catalogue: R. Paris, S. Bruni and M. Roghi (eds), Rivoluzione Augusto (Milan, 2014).
39 Catalogue: E. La Rocca, C. Parisi Presicce and A. Lo Monaco (eds), L'Età dell'Angoscia (Milan, 2015). Auden's ‘Age of Anxiety’ was first applied to the late second and third centuries ad by E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (Cambridge, 1965).
40 Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes 2009–10’ (above, n. 10), 292. On the statue, see now N. Agnoli, Marsia. La superbia punita (Rome, 2014).
41 La Repubblica 20 July 2014. For the Mithraeum, see Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2011–12’, Papers of the British School at Rome 80 (2012), 332CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
42 On the collection in the late nineteenth century, see the index to F. Matz and F. von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom (Leipzig, 1881–2). For the inscriptions, see Mingazzini, P., ‘Iscrizioni di Villa Wolkonky’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma 50 (1923), 72–81 Google Scholar.
43 A conference held on the same occasion featured introductory talks on the restoration (Valentina Puglisi), the villa's history (John Shepherd), and the antiquities (Dirk Booms and Amanda Claridge).