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NOTES FROM ROME 2011–12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Robert Coates-Stephens
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Abstract

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2011, but also in the first part of 2012), 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 2011, ma anche per gli inizi del 2012), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 80 , October 2012 , pp. 325 - 334
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Copyright © British School at Rome 2012

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References

1 For the publication of those recorded in the foundations, see Volpe, R. and Rossi, F.M., ‘Nuovi dati sull'esedra sud-ovest delle Terme di Traiano sul Colle Oppio: percorsi, iscrizioni dipinte e tempi di costruzione’, in Les chantiers de construction en Italie et dans les provinces romaines. 3er encontre — Paris, École Normale Supérieure: l'économie des chantiers (10–11 decembre 2009) (in press)Google Scholar.

2 DeLaine, J., The Baths of Caracalla: a Study in the Design, Construction and Economics of Large-scale Building Projects in Imperial Rome (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 25) (Portsmouth (RI), 1997), 15–16Google Scholar.

3 La Repubblica 30 July 2011; Il Tempo 30 July 2011; Il Messaggero 11 March 2012 (most of the newspaper reports referred to here can be consulted at http://www.patrimoniosos.it, in the ‘Rassegna Stampa’ section). For an illustration of the mosaic, see: http://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/i_luoghi/roma_antica/aree_archeologiche/colle_oppio_terme_di_traiano_nuovi_ritrovamenti_archeologici (last consulted 14.06.2012).

4 To be published as Bianchi, E., ‘Foro romano. L'intervento dei Tarquini prima della Cloaca Maxima’, in Studi Romani 58 (2010 (in press))Google Scholar.

5 The false vault was noted briefly by Bauer, H., s.v. ‘Cloaca, Cloaca Maxima’, in Steinby, E.M. (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae I (A–C) (Rome, 1993), 289Google Scholar.

6 L'Athenaeum di Adriano. Storia di un edificio dalla fondazione al XVII secolo, 22 September 2011. The conference will be published in a forthcoming edition of the online Bollettino di Archeologia. For a recent overview, see Egidi, R., ‘L'area di piazza Venezia. Nuovi dati topografici’, in Egidi, R., Filippi, F. and Martone, S. (eds), Archeologia e infrastrutture (Bollettino d'Arte – volume speciale) (Rome, 2011), 93–124Google Scholar.

7 It was here (not behind the Antiquarium, as reported in last year's ‘Notes’ (‘Notes from Rome 2010–11', Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (2011), 351–9, at p. 356)) that the ‘Temple of Luna’ was identifiedCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Tomei, M.A. and Filetici, M., Domus Tiberiana. Scavi e restauri, 1990–2011 (Milan, 2011)Google Scholar.

9 For previous reports, see Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2009–10’, Papers of the British School at Rome 78 (2010), 289–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 La Repubblica 17 March 2012.

11 La Repubblica 23 July 2011; Il Corriere della Sera 23 July 2011. The investigations took place in cunei III and X in the southern sector. For a brief preliminary report, see: http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_2818&curcol=sea_cd-AIAC_4023 (last consulted 14.06.2012).

12 La Repubblica 29 April 2012.

13 The debate raged throughout 2011–12. See, for example: La Repubblica 28 July 2011; Il Sole 24 Ore 29 December 2011; La Rinascita 17 January 2012.

14 They need not, of course, have been on the same site. See Coarelli, F., s.v. ‘Stabula Quattuor’, in Steinby, E.M. (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae IV (P–S) (Rome, 1999), 339Google Scholar.

15 La Repubblica 5 October 2011 and 6 October 2011. A useful ‘diario dello scavo archeologico’ has been made available on the Soprintendenza website, covering the stages of the works from March 2009 to September 2011: http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/node/388 (last consulted 14.06.2012).

16 Il Mattino 18 May 2011; Il Messaggero 14 February 2012.

17 La Repubblica 21 April 2012 and 25 April 2012. The excavation is directed by Paola Filippini of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma.

18 Il Corriere della Sera 11 March 2012; La Repubblica 11 March 2012.

19 La Repubblica 16 October 2011. The ancient service corridors would be used to display a part of the Baths' fragmentary decorative apparatus.

20 Il Corriere della Sera 26 July 2011; La Repubblica 26 July 2011. This would allow the second-century ad wharves, excavated in the 1980s, to be opened to the public.

21 See Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009), 291–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

22 Il Corriere della Sera 26 September 2011; La Repubblica 25 September 2011. The tomb of Macrinus has now been published in detail — see Rossi, D. (ed.), Il mausoleo di Marco Nonio Macrino sulla Via Flaminia (Milan, 2012)Google Scholar.

23 La Repubblica 15 December 2011.

24 http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/canali/inviaggio/cultura/2011/10/12/visualizza_new.html_673253020.html (last consulted 14.06.2012). On the monument, see Macciocca, M., s.v. ‘Marciorum sepulcrum’, in A. La Regina (dir.), Nicolai, V. Fiocchi, Granino, M.G. and Mari, Z. (eds), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae: Suburbium IV (M–Q) (Rome, 2007), 35–6Google Scholar.

25 For full discussion of the restoration and the interpretation of the frescoes, see the various essays included in: Bisconti, F. (ed.), L'ipogeo degli Aureli in viale Manzoni. Restauri, tutela, valorizzazione e aggiornamenti interpretativi (Vatican City, 2011)Google Scholar.

26 Most recently on the excavations, see Baldassarri, P., ‘Indagini archeologiche a Palazzo Valentini: domus di età imperiale ai margini del Foro Traiano’, Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia di Archeologia 81 (2008–9), 343–84Google Scholar. The area is under the charge of the Provincia di Roma.

27 Catalogue: I Borghese e l'antico (Milan, 2011).

28 Catalogue: Cima, M. and Tomei, M.A. (eds), Vetri a Roma (Milan, 2012)Google Scholar.

29 Il Tempo 20 January 2012. On the villa and its restoration, see Scoppola, F. (ed.), Villa Poniatowski (Rome, 2012)Google Scholar.

30 La Repubblica 28 July 2011. The Mithraeum was installed in second-century buildings behind the exedra of Balbus's porticus in the Severan period: see Ricci, M., ‘Crypta Balbi: l'area del mitreo’, in Paroli, L. and Venditelli, L. (eds), Roma dall'antichità al medioevo II: contesti tardo antichi e altomedievali (Milan, 2004), 231–41Google Scholar.

31 La Repubblica 28 December 2011.

32 For early notices of these finds, see Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 1906, p. 246, and Lanciani, R., Notes from Rome (ed. Cubberley, A.) (London, 1988), 235Google Scholar.

33 Prior to the publication of the study day, it is hoped to make the papers available as a podcast on the British School at Rome website.