Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2019
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (in the second half of 2018 and the first half of 2019) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and newspaper reports.
Questa gazetta ha lo scopo di presentare ad un lettore fuori Roma notizie della recente attività archeologica (per la seconda metà del 2018 e la prima metà del 2019), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali
1 Google Earth currently provides a good aerial view as of 2019, where the older street bed and demolished buildings on the east side can be seen. The Sovrintendenza website (http://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/i_luoghi/roma_antica/aree_archeologiche/via_alessandrina) observes that the street has become completely decontextualised, its surviving tract ‘divides’ the forums and makes it difficult to understand them, while acknowledging that it forms a good viewpoint. It will be interesting to see if and how the dilemma can be resolved.
4 Smith, A.L., Catalogue of Sculptures in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, vol. III (London, 1904) 48 no. 1627Google Scholar; illustrated in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae III.1 (Munich and Zurich, 1994) 445 Dionysos 201c [C. Gasparri].
8 Keay, Simon, ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 86 (2018) 294Google Scholar, and http://romanord.romatoday.it/ponte-milvio/ponte-milvio-ritrovamenti-tevere-novembre-2017.html
9 http://romanord.romatoday.it/scoperta-archeologica-a-ponte-milvio-ecco-cosa-e-rimerso-lungo-il-tevere.html; https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2018/08/24/newly-discovered-ruins-rome-earliest-churches/; https://hyperallergic.com/453107/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-a-church-built-on-the-site-of-constantine-the-greats-conversion-to-christianity/
10 Closely related to one in a domus near Arco di S. Bibiana: Guidobaldi, F. and Guidobaldi, A. Guiglia, Pavimenti marmorei di Roma dal IV al IX secolo (Rome, 1983) fig. 37Google Scholar.
11 Giornata di studi: statue di barbari in marmi colorati. Novità dal Foro Romano e Terracina, organised by the Parco archeologico del Colosseo and held in the Curia Julia, 6 June 2019, together with an exhibition of a selection of the heads.
12 Schneider, R.M., Bunte Barbaren. Orientalstatuen aus farbiger Marmor in der römischen Rapräsentationskunst (Worms, 1986) 115–20Google Scholar; Schneider, R.M., ‘Context Matters: Pliny's Phryges and the basilica Paulli in Rome’, in Bintliff, J. and Rutter, K. (eds), Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Image, Text and Context, Studies in honour of Anthony Snodgrass (Edinburgh, 2016) ch. 17Google Scholar.
13 27 July 2018–2 June 2019, curated by Isabella Damiani and Claudio Parisi Presicce. No printed catalogue accompanied the exhibition. http://www.museicapitolini.org/it/mostra-evento/la-roma-dei-re-il-racconto-dell-archeologia
14 17 October 2018–20 January 2019, curated by Francesca Ghedini, who edited the accompanying catalogue: https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/mostra/ovidio-amori-miti-e-altre-storie-000.
15 15 November 2018–25 August 2019, curated by Rossella Rea, Clementina Panella, and Alessandro D'Alessio: https://www.coopculture.it/en/events.cfm?id=954; the exhibition catalogue is published by Mondadori Electa.
16 23 March–2 June 2019, curated by Giulia Pedrucci and Vittoria Lecce: https://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_650017218.html.
17 See further the article by Maureen Carroll in this volume, ‘Mater Matuta, ‘fertility cults’, and the integration of women in religious life in Italy in the fourth to first centuries BC’.
18 Keay, Simon, ‘Notes from Rome 2017–2018’, Papers of the British School at Rome 86 (2018) 294–5Google Scholar.
19 6 April–27 October 2019, curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce, Orietta Rossini, and Lucia Spagnuolo; its substantial catalogue published by L'Erma Di Bretschneider contains essays covering topics far beyond those represented in the exhibition itself. https://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1767559959.html
20 18 April–22 September 2019, curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce, with catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale; http://www.centralemontemartini.org/it/mostra-evento/volti-di-roma-alla-centrale-montemartini.