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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2021
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (June 2020 – July 2021) 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 (giugno 2020 - luglio 2021) tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
1 Previous mentions in past ‘Notes from Rome’: PBSR 77 (2009), 294–5; PBSR 79 (2011), 357; PBSR 82 (2014), 319. Preparatory excavations have been briefly documented in: P. Virgili, E. Carnabuci, ‘Mausoleo di Augusto: nuovi dati per la lettura della pianta, degli elevati e delle tecniche costruttive. Le indagini archeologiche’, in Arqueología de la construcción III, eds. S. Camporeale, H. Dessales, A. Pizzo (Madrid-Mérida 2012), 181–201; N. Agnoli, E. Carnabuci, G. Caruso, E. Loreti, ‘Il Mausoleo di Augusto. Recenti scavi e nuove ipotesi ricostruttive’, in Apoteosi. Da uomini a dèi, eds. L. Abbondanza, F. Coarelli, E. Lo Sardo (Rome 2014), 214–29. For an illuminating exposition of the implications of these studies for the reconstruction of the Mausoleum in antiquity, see the online lecture by Elisabetta Carnabuci: https://www.facebook.com/490753770997690/videos/453267839068545
2 On the bureaucratic delays and other unfortunate events (including the flooding of the monument during the open-day to mark the anniversary of Augustus’ death on 19 August 2014), see: Corriere della Sera 30/9/2016, 10/10/2016, 21/11/2016, 22/11/2016; Il fatto quotidiano 28/10/2016 (newspaper reports cited here may be found at www.patrimoniosos.it in the Rassegna Stampa section).
3 The latest excavations began in 2020. For an illustration of the works as of April 2021, see the informative online lecture by site director Ersilia Maria Loreti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj96fs-AsQk
4 Photographs of the find at https://cloud.zetema.it/index.php/s/rKqRL87LTXgFGMY
5 M. Andreussi, ‘Pomerium’, LTUR 4, 96–105.
6 Continuing south, it would be expected to have returned to the line of the Servian Wall at the Porta Triumphalis, before extending westwards again so as to account for the cippus of S. Lucia del Gonfalone (M. Labrousse, ‘Le pomerium de la Rome impériale’, MEFR 54 (1937), 186–94); Filippo Coarelli proposed it would have followed the Euripus in this stretch (Il Campo Marzio (Rome 1997), 131–3).
7 The conference, in course of publication, may be viewed at https://www.eehar.csic.es/giornata-dedicata-a-emilio-rodriguez-almeida
8 The new presentation elucidates the report presented at last year's conference at the Ara Pacis (‘Notes from Rome 2019–20’, PBSR 88 (2020), 345) and the short preliminary publication (Pizzo, A., Vitti, M., ‘Via di S. Eufemia 13. Ritrovamenti archeologici nella Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma’, BCAR 120 (2019) 346–52Google Scholar).
9 The update may be found on the website of the Spanish School (with a short video of the excavation): https://www.eehar.csic.es/unas-obras-en-la-escuela-espanola-de-historia-y-arqueologia-del-csic-en-roma-sacan-a-la-luz-una-muralla-del-s-iv-a-c/. The overbuilding – or even abutting – of the Wall by a prestigious funerary monument as early as the early first century BC would certainly be unusual.
10 ‘Notes from Rome 2014–15’, PBSR 83 (2015), 285; ‘Notes from Rome 2015–16’, PBSR 84 (2016), 300. On virtual reality as a tool to aid site visits in the city, see S. Keay, ‘Notes from Rome 2017–18’, PBSR 86 (2018), 295.
11 La scatola archeologica di piazza Albania all'Aventino, ed. R. Narducci (Rome 2020), providing information on material from the eighth century BC to the sixth century AD and documenting the extensive excavated zones not on show.
12 ‘Notes from Rome 2014–15’, PBSR 83 (2015), 287. In lieu of a catalogue, see E. Alessandrini, A. Orrù, ‘L'Antiquarium di Lucrezia Romana’, in Ti presento un museo, eds. G. Calcani, A. Corpascio (Rome 2018), 35–62.
13 For a survey of the archaeology of the road, linking Rome with the Alban Hills, see Fischetti, A.L., ‘La Via Castrimeniense: lo stato della ricerca’, in Alle pendici dei Colli Albani, eds. Fischetti, A.L., Attema, P. (Groningen 2019)Google Scholar, with reference to our site at 68–9. The excavations, which started as long ago as 2001, are briefly described by Egidi, R., ‘Un'area suburbana alle pendici dei Colli Albani’, in Roma, memorie dal sottosuolo, ed. Tomei, M.A. (Rome 2006), 360–65Google Scholar and id. ‘Insediamenti, strade e sistemi di bonifica agraria nel suburbio orientale’, in Suburbium II, eds. V. Jolivet, C. Pavolini, M.A. Tomei, R. Volpe (Rome 2009), 497–517.
14 The mausoleum is mentioned briefly in LTURS 3, 191. A panel illustrating the restoration describes subsidiary structures decorated with fifth-century opus sectile pavements.
15 Claridge, A., Siwicki, C., ‘Notes from Rome 2018–19’, PBSR 87 (2019), 309–10Google Scholar.
16 The new finds came to light in September 2019 and were presented to the press only in December 2020. See Roma Today 11/12/2021; Corriere della Sera 12/12/2020. Online video of the presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HaJWMfUtw
17 See the catalogue entry by A. Azéma, S. Descamps-Lequime, B. Mille in Un rêve d'Italie. La collection du marquis Campana, eds F. Gaultier, L. Haumesser, A. Trofimova (Paris 2018), 95–6. For the reattachment: http://www.museicapitolini.org/it/mostra-evento/il-frammento-ritrovato
18 ‘Notes from Rome 2019–20’, PBSR 88 (2020), 347. Catalogue (in English and Italian): The Torlonia Marbles. Collecting masterpieces, eds C. Gasparri, S. Settis (Milan 2020).
19 Reviews by A. Röstel (Apollo 5/2/2021) and C. Hornsby (The Burlington Magazine, January 2021). The architects responsible claimed that “the traditional brick blocks are a link to ancient Roman architecture, more specifically to the ancient temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus: the largest monument on the Capitoline Hill with foundations that are tectonically and traditionally in blocks of cappellaccio” (D. Chipperfield in Gasparri-Settis op. cit., 300).
20 Lanciani, R., Notes from Rome (ed. Cubberley, A., London 1988), 83–6Google Scholar. He was particularly scathing regarding the bronze ‘Germanicus’ and the Portus athlete, both featured in the new exhibition.
21 A handsome catalogue was issued (Roma. Nascita di una capitale 1870–1915, eds F. Pesci, F. Pirani, G. Raimondi, (Rome 2021), in which the archaeology was covered by E. Pallottino and R. Volpe, ‘Città antica e città moderna nella costruzione di Roma capitale. La Commissione Archeologica Comunale: un laboratorio di sperimentazione topografica (1872–1890)’, 161–73.
22 The marbles, stylistically dated to the mid-first century AD, were found stored in a second-century house during building works for the Giubileo of 2000, and originally published as I colori del fasto. La domus del Gianicolo e i suoi marmi, ed. F. Filippi (Milan 2005). For the new display, see Colantonio, S., ‘Magnificenza a Roma: i marmi colorati della domus del Gianicolo’, in Pompei 79 d.C. Una storia romana, ed. Torelli, M. (Milan 2020), 230–33Google Scholar.
23 Catalogue: Colori dei Romani, eds N. Agnoli, S. Guglielmi, C. Parisi Presicce (Rome 2021).
24 On these two monuments see: Gli dèi propizi. La Basilica Hilariana nel contesto dello scavo dell'Ospedale Militare Celio, eds P. Palazzo, C. Pavolini (Rome 2013); F. Coarelli, Collis (Rome 2014), 286–94.