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Notes from Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2011

Robert Coates-Stephens
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The British School at Rome, via Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome, Italy.robertcoates@tiscali.it
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References

1 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008), 299307.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 La Repubblica, 27 June 2008; Il Tempo, 8 August 2008. In October 2008, Broccoli raised the possibility that art-works from archaeological storerooms might be rented out to foreign exhibitors (La Repubblica, 3 October 2008).

3 Delfino, A., ‘Il foro di Cesare nella fase cesariana e augustea’, In G., Gentili (ed.), Giulio Cesare. L'uomo, le imprese, il mito (Milan, 2008), 52–4Google Scholar; Bianchi, E., ‘Il foro di Cesare tra Domiziano e l'età tardoantica’, In G., Gentili (ed.), Giulio Cesare. L'uomo, le imprese, il mito (Milan, 2008), 55–6Google Scholar. See also slightly longer pieces by the same authors in Forma Urbis 14 (1) (2009), 28–47.

4 ‘Un cavallo di bronzo per più cavalieri. La riscoperta di un originale greco a Roma’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 108 (2007), 33–53.

5 Il Sole 24 Ore, 6 August 2008; Il Giornale, 29 November 2008.

6 Excavation directed by Roberto Egidi. Most detailed report in Il Corriere della Sera, 16 September 2008.

7 Claridge, A., ‘Hadrian's lost Temple of Trajan’, Joumal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007), 7680.Google Scholar

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9 For the excavations, directed by Maria Antonietta Tomei, see Il Cerniere della Sera, 12 June 2008 and 31 July 2008. For the decision to abandon the project: La Repubblica, 6 September 2008. The remains will be preserved beneath a reinforced concrete cover (La Repubblica, 7 April 2009).

10 Catalogue edited by F. Filippi (Milan, 2005).

11 La Repubblica, 5 July 2008 and 25 July 2008. For other proposed underground car parks, see La Repubblica, 22 September 2008.

12 Sites directed by Laura Cianfriglia (La Repubblica, 10 June 2008) and Marina Piranomonte (La Repubblica, 17 October 2008).

13 La Repubblica, 4 August 2008. Funerary urn sent to the Museo Nazionale Romano.

14 La Repubblica, 16 October 2008. See the report of the site director, Daniela Rossi: http://www.beniculturali.it/pdf/CartellaStampal6102008_Flaminia.pdf (last consulted 17.08.2009).

15 The excavation report is in press: L. Spera (ed.), Lo scavo nell'orto dell'Abbazia di San Paolo flm.

16 Papi, E., ‘Domus: M. Antonius’, In M., Steinby (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae II (D-G) (Rome, 1995), 34.Google Scholar

17 La Repubblica, 17 October 2008. Photographs and summary: http://www.beniculturah.it/pdf/CartellaStampal6102008_Palatino.pdf (last consulted 17.08.2009).

18 See, for example, the piece entitled ‘Ara senza Pacis’ by the architect Massimiliano Fuksas in L'Espresso, 16 May 2008. See also La Repubblica, 30 April 2008 and II Corriere della Sera, 16 June 2008.

19 La Repubblica, 27 January 2009.

20 In anticipation of a new catalogue for Aula X, see Aurigemma, S., The Baths of Diocletian and the Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, 1963), 52–4Google Scholar (the tomb of the stuccoes had yet to be transferred) and B.M. Felletti Maj's original excavation notice in Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1957), 336–58. See also Licordari, F., ‘L'aula X delle Terme di Diocleziano’, Forma Urbis 14 (2) (2009), 49.Google Scholar

21 http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/Ministero/UfficioStampa/News/visualizza_asset.htmi_33814561.html (last consulted 12.05.2009). The bulk of the Egyptian antiquities has been catalogued In Manera, F. and Mazza, C., Le collezioni egizie del Museo Nazionale Romano (Milan, 2001).Google Scholar For the Mattéi Collection, see De Angelis d'Ossat, M. (ed.), Scultura antica a Palazzo Altemps (Milan, 2002), 301–17Google Scholar.

22 Blanc, L. and Martinez, J.-L., Il paradiso in una stanza (Milan, 2008)Google Scholar; Garbagna, C. (ed.), Ut rosa amoena (Milan, 2008)Google Scholar (with contributions by many authors); Paris, R. and Barbera, M., Le antiche stanze di Termini (Milan, 2008).Google Scholar The new arrangement meant that the ninth-century frescoes from the Temple of Portunus (see last year's ‘Notes’) have now been removed from display.

23 Unfortunately the catalogue pictures the wrong scene (C. Conti and S. Violante, ‘Fregio della Basilica Aemilia. Il ratto delle Sabine’, in Gentili (ed.), Giulio Cesare (above, n. 3), 230–1).

24 Catalogue: Coarelli, F. (ed.), Divus Vespasianus. Il bimillenario dei Flavi (Milan, 2009).Google Scholar In April the exhibition was extended with a small display in the Palazzo Nuovo Capitolino relating chiefly to Egyptian cults in the area of the Capitoline Hill.

25 For the rationale behind the project, see Ciancio Rossetto, P. and Buonfiglio, M., ‘Circo Massimo: riflessioni e progetti’, Orizzonti 8 (2007), 1941.Google Scholar