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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2017
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2016, but also in the first part of 2017), 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 2016, ma anche per gli inizi del 2017), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
1 Notices in Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76–84 (2008–16)Google Scholar. Finds have included the so-called Athenaeum in piazza Venezia (2009, 292 and 2012, 326–7), the Stagnum of Agrippa (2010, 291), a suburban irrigation complex and a ‘lost’ stretch of the Aurelianic Walls (2015, 285–6), and a second-century AD barracks at Porta Metronia (2016, 299).
2 The excavations were illustrated in a lecture by the site director, Rossella Rea (Special Superintendence for the Colosseum and the Archaeological Heritage of Rome (SSCol)), at a conference on the Lateran held at the British School at Rome in September 2016. Dott.ssa Rea also furnished more details on the barracks found last year at Porta Metronia. The conference will be published as: Lex Bosman, Ian Haynes and Paolo Liverani, The Lateran Basilica (forthcoming).
3 The news emerged as these Notes were going to press, at a press conference held by the site director, Simona Morretta (SSCol). See La Repubblica 26 June 2017; Corriere della Sera 27 June 2017 (newspaper reports cited here may be found at www.patrimoniosos.it in the Rassegna Stampa section).
4 See Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 84 (2016), 299 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
5 The find was announced by the site directors, Simona Morretta and Paola Palazzo, during a conference held in April 2017 devoted to recent research on Middle Republican Rome organized by the British School at Rome in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome and the city's archaeological superintendencies. For a provisional notice, see Corriere della Sera 4 April 2017.
6 Frontinus, De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae 5–6 and 21. The Appia ran from Spes Vetus towards the Porta Capena, and was also Rome's deepest aqueduct; Frontinus says nothing about the Anio Vetus (which, although subterranean, ran at a higher level than the Appia) crossing the Caelian. See Ashby, T., The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome (Oxford, 1935), 49–56 Google Scholar.
7 La Repubblica 9 March 2017.
8 Explanatory notes and photographs may be found at http://metrocspa.it/allestimento-espositivo-stazione-san-giovanni/.
9 See Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 83 (2015), 285 Google Scholar.
10 Il Messaggero 20 October 2016. The project, which started in 2012, was directed by Mirella Serlorenzi (SSCol) in collaboration with the Cooperativa Archeologia. For a useful preliminary report, see Serlorenzi, M., Morretta, S., Ricci, G. and Bianco, R., ‘Appendice. Domus e horrea lungo il vicus Patricius ’, in Carandini, A. and Carafa, P. (eds), Atlante di Roma antica (Milan, 2012), 474–6Google Scholar.
11 Corriere della Sera 2 February 2017. The precise location is on the corner of Via Ariosto and Via Galilei. The news was announced by Mirella Serlorenzi at Palazzo Massimo.
12 Gatti, G., ‘Notizie di recenti trovamenti di antichità in Roma e nel suburbio’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 37 (1909), 290–318 Google Scholar, at pp. 290–2. Some fresh information, including archival material, in Ramírez, E. Castillo, ‘Excavaciones archeológicas en la via Ariosto. IIIª zona del Esquilino (1874–2006). Primera parte: restos arquitectónicos’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 113 (2012), 97–155 Google Scholar, at pp. 142–4.
13 La Repubblica 28 November 2016. For the mausoleum of Macrinus, mentioned in ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009), 293 Google Scholar, and 81 (2013), 345, see Rossi, D. (ed.), Il mausoleo di Marco Nonio Macrino sulla via Flaminia (Milan, 2012)Google Scholar.
14 For the latest batch of Praetorians’ inscriptions, see Gregori, G.L., ‘Altre stele di militari dal V–VI miglio dall'antica via Flaminia’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 201 (2017), 297–303 Google Scholar.
15 Corriere della Sera 6 July 2016. Works began in the summer of 2015. The excavation was directed by Alessandro D'Alessio (SSCol).
16 Il Messaggero 22 April 2017. The works, which began in 2015, were directed by Rita Paris (SSCol).
17 La Repubblica 16 April 2017. The works were directed by Stefano Musco (SSCol).
18 Frontinus, De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae 5; cf. Ashby, T., The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome (Oxford, 1935), 49–51 Google Scholar.
19 See ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (2011), 357 Google Scholar, and 83 (2015), 286. The monument is open at weekends and during the week by appointment (Tuesday–Friday).
20 La Repubblica 28 January 2017. The damaged curtain is adjacent to Via Montebello, opposite the Palazzo delle Ferrovie dello Stato. In November 2016, after the first wave of earthquakes, the Superintendency of Roma Capitale announced that despite cracks appearing in the Walls they remained ‘absolutely safe’ (Artemagazine 3 November 2016).
21 Il Fatto Quotidiano 29 January 2017; Corriere della Sera 16 May 2017 (interview with the architect Mancini, Rossana, of, author Le Mura Aureliane di Roma. Atlante di un palinsesto murario (Rome, 2001)Google Scholar).
22 Corriere della Sera 18 May 2017. The inscription thus provides a terminus post quem in the reign of Constantine, which would be consonant with a construction date under Constantius. For a preliminary report on the works, with a photograph of the inscription, see Cruz, P.M. and Pizzo, A., ‘Excavaciones arqueológicas en el Arco de Giano, en el foro Boario de Roma’, Informes y Trabajos del Instituto de Conservación y Restauración de Obras de Arte 11 (2014), 31–6Google Scholar. An in-depth study by the same authors is in press with the Journal of Roman Studies. On the identification of the arch, see Pensabene, P. and Panella, C., ‘Reimpiego e progettazione architettonica nei monumenti tardo-antichi di Roma II. Arco quadrifonte (“Giano”) del Foro Boario’, Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia: Rendiconti 67 (1994–5), 25–67 Google Scholar.
23 The works were inaugurated at a press conference in May 2017. A new volume on the complex was presented: Bisconti, F. (ed.), Catacombe di Domitilla. Restauri nel tempo (Vatican City 2017)Google Scholar. For a similar project at the neighbouring Catacombs of Callistus, see ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 84 (2016), 302–3Google Scholar.
24 Catalogue: Bernacchio, N. and Meneghini, R. (eds), I fori dopo i fori (Rome, 2017)Google Scholar.
25 A collection of essays accompanied the exhibition: Rea, R., Romano, S. and Valenzani, R. Santangeli (eds), Colosseo (Milan, 2017)Google Scholar.
26 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 80 (2012), 328 Google Scholar. The aforementioned volume includes an introduction to the excavations: R. Santangeli Valenzani and G. Facchin, ‘Il Colosseo nel medioevo tra baroni, preti e mercanti’, 66–75.
27 On the papal train (previously displayed at the Museo di Roma), see Ricci, E., ‘Il treno di Pio IX’, Rivista Storica del Lazio 10.5 (2002), 40–5Google Scholar.