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NOTES FROM ROME 2015–16
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 September 2016
Abstract
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2015, but also in the first part of 2016), 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 2015, ma anche per gli inizi del 2016), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
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1 The discovery was revealed at a press conference held by the director of the excavations, Rosella Rea (SS-Col), in May 2016. See Corriere della Sera 17 May 2016; La Repubblica 17 May 2016 (newspaper reports cited here may be found at www.patrimoniosos.it in the Rassegna Stampa section).
2 Arizza, M., Serlorenzi, M. (eds), La scoperta di una struttura templare sul Quirinale presso l'ex Regio Ufficio Geologico (Rome 2015)Google Scholar. The temple podium (measuring 42 m × 29 m) dates to the late sixth/early fifth century BC, with a rebuilding phase in the third century bc. For the new discoveries, see Corriere della Sera 10 September 2015; La Repubblica 10 September 2015.
3 The following tentative identifications of the temple have been proposed to now: Hora-Quirini (Arizza, Serlorenzi 2015 ([cit. n. 2), 147-65); Silvanus ( Carandini, A., Carafa, P. (eds) Atlante di Roma antica, Milan 2012, 452Google Scholar); a sanctuary of the Argei ( Coarelli, F., Collis, Rome 2014, 33Google Scholar). Quirinus is sure to be suggested sooner or later – see, for example, the topographical conclusions reached even before the new excavations by di Mores, G. Manca (‘Terrecotte architettoniche e problemi topografici: contribute all'identificazione del Tempio di Quirino sul colle Quirinale’, AnnPerugia 20 (1982–3), 323–60)Google Scholar and Paris, R. (Dono Hartwig, Rome 1994, 40Google Scholar)).
4 Villedieu, F., ‘La “coenatio rotunda” neroniana e altre vestigia nel sito della Vigna Barberini al Palatino’, BdA 96, ser. 7, n. 12 (2011), 1–28 Google Scholar; Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2011-12’, PBSR 80 (2012), 327–8Google Scholar.
5 The conference was fruit of a collaboration between the SS-Col and the relevant foreign academies.
6 La Repubblica 26 June 2015 and 22 October 2015.
7 La Repubblica 24 November 2015.
8 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008), 303CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
9 The speakers were the project director, Mariarosaria Barbera (MiBACT) and the architect Marina Magnani Cianetti and archaeologist Salvo Barrano (both SS-col). See La Repubblica 21 November 2015.
10 Fortini, P. (ed.), La rampa imperiale. Scavi e restauri tra foro romano e Palatino, Milan 2015 Google Scholar.
11 The exhibition ran from March to September 2016. Catalogue: Andaloro, M., Bordi, G., Morganti, G. (eds), S. Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Milan 2016 Google Scholar.
12 A catalogue is planned, but has not yet been published.
13 The exhibition ran from May to November 2016. Catalogue: Ungaro, L., Milella, M., Pastor, S. (eds), Made in Roma. Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica, Rome 2016 Google Scholar.
14 Information on the restoration and excavation may be found in: Bisconti, F., Braconi, M. (eds), Le catacombe di San Callisto. Storia, contesti, scavi, restauri, scoperte. A proposito del cubicolo di Orfeo e del Museo della Torretta, Todi 2015 Google Scholar.
15 Lanciani, R., Notes from Rome (ed. Cubberley, T., London 1988), 189Google Scholar. More generally on the four mosaics, see Salvetti, C., I mosaici antichi pavimentali e parietali e i sectilia pavimenta di Roma nelle collezioni Capitolini (Musiva e sectilia 6 (2009)), Rome-Pisa 2013, 81–7Google Scholar, 117–20, 196–200, 227–30.
16 La Repubblica 21 July 2015; Corriere della Sera 15 March 2016. The most recent catalogue is that of C. Visconti, I monumenti del Museo Torlonia di sculture antiche riprodotti con la fototipia, Rome 1884–5. For a succinct description of the Museum at the time of its inauguration in 1880, see Lanciani (cit. n. 15), 83–6.
17 See, for example, our first ‘Notes from Rome’ (PBSR 76 (2008), 307)Google Scholar, where the proposal was aired to exhibit the collection in the restored Villa Rivaldi above via dei Fori Imperiali. The villa remains in ruins.
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