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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2014
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2013, but also in the first part of 2014), 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 2013, ma anche per gli inizi del 2014), tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
1 Its medieval phases are known better. In general on the recent works, see Meneghini, R. and Valenzani, R. Santangeli (eds), I fori imperiali. Gli scavi del Comune di Roma (Rome, 2007)Google Scholar, as well as my first ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008), 299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Il Messaggero 13 April 2014. Most of the newspaper reports referred to here can be consulted at http://patrimoniosos.it in the ‘Rassegna Stampa’ section.
3 Libero 19 July 2013; Il Messaggero 20 July 2013. The works represent a collaboration between Roma Capitale and the universities of Calabria and Michigan.
4 La Repubblica 20 October 2013. The Plinian reference to the painters Damophilos and Gorgasos decorating the Temple of Ceres in 493 bc was recalled (Natural History 35.154).
5 La Repubblica 13 December 2013. On such walls, see Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Muri dei bassi secoli in Rome’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001), 217–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6 Il Messaggero 16 October 2013. The monument was presented at a press conference at the Palazzo Massimo by Mirella Serlorenzi (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (SSBAR)) and already has found its way into Filippo Coarelli's latest book on Roman topography: Collis. Il Quirinale e il Viminale nell'antichità (Rome, 2014), 30–3Google Scholar, where it is linked to the adjacent sacred deposit of Santa Maria della Vittoria and identified as one of the sanctuaries of the Argei.
7 The lecture was given at the German Archaeological Institute by Donato Alagia (La Sapienza) and concerned chiefly the complex's elaborate marble revetment. A study day on the archaeology of the site is to be announced by Mirella Serlorenzi. A preliminary report on the excavations, which were directed by Mariarosaria Barbera (SSBAR), has been published online: Barbera, M., Barrano, S., De Cola, G., Festuccia, S., Giovannetti, L., Menghi, O. and Pales, M., ‘La villa di Caligola. Un nuovo settore degli Horti Lamiani scoperto sotto la sede dell'ENPAM a Roma’, fasti online folder 194 (2010)Google Scholar (http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2010-194.pdf (last consulted 01.07.2014)).
8 Il Corriere della Sera 10 October 2013 and Il Tempo 10 October 2013. The works were directed by Gert-Jan Burgers and Renato Sebastiani (SSBAR). See also the internet summary: http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/sites/default/files/Challenging%20testaccio_brochure.pdf (last consulted 21.07.2014). On the Navalia, see Cozza, L. and Tucci, P.L., ‘Navalia’, Archeologia Classica 57 (2006), 175–202.Google Scholar
9 The discovery of six tombs was announced in August 2013 (Il Corriere della Sera 7 August 2013), rising to 22 a year later (La Repubblica 24 May 2014) (excavations under the direction of Stefano Musco (SSBAR)). It is hoped that the site will be preserved and made visible to the public.
10 Catacombs: Il Corriere della Sera 28 November 2013. Columbaria: La Repubblica 28 May 2014. For a recent study of the entire zone, see Rossi, D. and Di Mento, M. (eds), La catacomba ebraica di Monteverde: vecchi dati e nuove scoperte (Rome, 2013).Google Scholar
11 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009), 291–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
12 The exhibition ran from December 2013 to May 2014. Catalano, Catalogue: P., Fornaciari, G., Gazzaniga, V., Piccioli, A. and Rickards, O. (eds), Scritto nelle ossa (Rome, 2013).Google Scholar
13 Il Tempo 28 June 2013. See also Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes from Rome’ (above, n. 11).
14 The exhibition ran from October 2013 to February 2014, before transferring to the Louvre. Catalogue: Rocca, E. La, Presicce, C. Parisi, Lo Monaco, A., Giroire, C. and Roger, D. (eds), Augusto (Milan, 2013).Google Scholar
15 See Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes from Rome’ (above, n. 11). Bureaucratic reasons for the hold-up are discussed in La Repubblica 23 September 2013 and 4 June 2014.
16 A new catalogue has been published: Candilio, D. (ed.), Palazzo Altemps: le collezioni (Milan, 2011).Google Scholar
17 The exhibition ran from October 2013 to January 2014, but it is hoped that the objects will remain on more permanent display. Catalogue: Capodiferro, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale Romano. Evan Gorga, la collezione di archeologia (Milan, 2013).Google Scholar
18 April–September 2014. Catalogue: Coarelli, F., La gloria dei vinti (Milan, 2014).Google Scholar
19 For alternative reconstructions of both groups, see Ridgway, B., Hellenistic Sculpture, vol. I (Bristol, 1990), 284–96.Google Scholar
20 A catalogue is in preparation. In the meantime, there is much information on the relevant excavations and the artefacts unearthed therein in Pietrangeli, C., Scavi e scoperte di antichità sotto il pontificato di Pio VI (Rome, 1958).Google Scholar
21 The exhibition ran from October 2013 to January 2014. Catalogue: Cornini, G. and Lega, C. (eds), Preziose antichità. Il Museo Profano al tempo di Pio VI (Vatican City, 2013).Google Scholar
22 From December 2013 to April 2014. Catalogue: Abbondanza, L., Coarelli, F. and Lo Sardo, E. (eds), Apoteosi. Da uomini a dei. Il Mausoleo di Adriano (Rome, 2014).Google Scholar
23 Vitti's reconstruction was exhibited in the form of large-scale (1:100) drawings and 3-D models, as well as by an essay in the catalogue. In May 2014 he illustrated his findings in a lecture at the British School at Rome.
24 Running from March to October 2014. A collection of essays accompanied the exhibition: Meneghini, R. and Rea, R. (eds), La biblioteca infinita: i luoghi del sapere nel mondo antico (Milan, 2014).Google Scholar
25 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome 2012–13’, Papers of the British School at Rome 81 (2013), 341–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar. La Repubblica 27 January 2014; Il Manifesto 6 February 2014; La Repubblica 15 April 2014. Apart from the plastico, none of the other exhibits was mentioned as being included in the contract for the restoration of the buildings.
26 To be published in a forthcoming volume of the Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia.
