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Notes from Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2011

Robert Coates-Stephens
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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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 76 , November 2008 , pp. 299 - 307
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References

1 Lanciani, R., Notes from Rome (London, 1988)Google Scholar.

2 Meneghini, R. and Santangeli Valcnzani, R., I Fori Imperiali. Gli scavi del Comune di Roma (1991–2007) (Rome, 2007)Google Scholar . Individual volumes regarding each Forum are currently in preparation.

3 The publication of the new Forum of Augustus excavations is in press: R. Meneghini and R. Santangcli Valcnzani (eds), Il Foro di Augusto. Lo scavo dell'area centrale, 2004–2007.

4 The pavement has been published: Rigagnolo, S., ‘Pavimenti marmorei di epoca severiana del Templum Pacis’, Musiva et Sectilia 1/3 (2005–2006), 115–41Google Scholar.

5 In December 2007 the houses were opened to the public, and a digital reconstruction of the rooms presented. See Baldassarri, P., ‘Indagini archeologiche a Palazzo Valentini. La campagna 2005–2007’, in Palazzo Valentini: l'area tra antichità ed età moderna. Scoperte, valorizzazione, prospettive della Provincia di Roma (Rome, 2008)Google Scholar.

6 For the medieval phases, see Saguì, L. and Serlorenzi, M. (eds), ‘Roma, piazza Venezia. L'indagine archeologica per la realizzazione della metropolitana. Le fasi medievali e moderne’, Archeologia Medievale 55 (2008 (in press))Google Scholar.

7 Carandini summarized his ideas on the topography in Workshop di archeologia classica. Quaderni 1 (2004). Synthesis of the individual excavations in Workshop di archeologia classica 1 (2004), 61–161; addenda in vol. 2 (2005), with Carandini's conclusion at p. 189: ‘Con una tale strepitosa scoperta, il problema delle origini di Roma in quanto esordio della città e dello stato può dirsi nel suo nocciolo risolto’. See now also Carandini, A., Roma. Il primo giorno (Rome/Bari, 2007), 57–77Google Scholar.

8 Forthcoming publication in Scienze dell'Antichità 13 (2006). For a brief overview of the discovery of the standards, see Pasquali, L., ‘I segni del potere’, Forma Urbis 12 (3) (2007), 16–20Google Scholar.

9 The debate was pursued in the newspapers, with the initial discovery reported on 21 November 2007 (lacopi and Carandini, in Il Corriere della Sera), followed by the views of La Regina (La Repubblica, 22 November) and Zevi (La Repubblica, 23 November), who made the observation that in all the excitement over the Lupercal the simple fact that this represents the only surviving example of a completelv preserved, decorated dome in all of Rome was being overlooked. Carandini's hypothesis was hotly contested bv Filippo Coarelli in La Repubblica on 15 February 2008.

10 M. Tornei, in La Repubblica, 5 January 2008.

11 See Iacopi, I., La Casa di Augusto, le pitture (Verona, 2007)Google Scholar (including a photograph of the ‘Lupereal’ at p. 9). The extremely significant suggestion that all of these rooms were buried during the construction of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus (36–28 BC) is made at pp. 12–14 and 76.

12 For an overview, with information and photographs of the archaeological remains at each site, see http://www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it/sar2000/metroc/index.htm.

13 Il Camere della Sera, 7 March 2008.

14 The first news of each site was reported in Il Messaggero, 25 January 2007.

15 See now S. Barrano, D. Colli and M. Martines, ‘Roma. Piazza Vittorio Kmanuele II. Un nuoyo settore degli Ilorti I.amiani’, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2007–87.pdf.

16 La Repubblica, 17 May 2007. Works for a new branch of the Metro B from piazza Bologna to Conca d'Oro, crossing the via Nomentana at Sant'Agnese, have not produced any reports of archaeological discoveries.

17 G. Adinolfi and R. Carmagnola, ‘Rinvenimenti ai margini degli Horti Sallustiani’, http://www.fasti-online.org/does/FOLDKR-it-2007–92.pdf.

18 G. de Cola and L. Giovannetti, ‘Strutture murarie di epoca imperiale e tombe tardoantiche presso Porta Maggiore a Roma’, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2007–86.pdf.

19 G. De Rossi, ‘Ricerche archeologiche presso la caserma G. Carreca via Labicana 9, Roma’, http://www.fastionlinc.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2007–90.pdf.

20 C. Pinci, ‘Un edificio medioevale a piazza Ss. Apostoli a Roma’, http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2007–100.pdf.

21 Sebastiani, R. and Serlorenzi, M. (eds), ‘Il più grande scavo aperto a Roma’, Fonna Urbis 12(3) (2007), 28–37Google Scholar

22 Excavations directed bv Maria Antonietta Tornei, reported in La Repubblica, 16 May 2007.

23 Il Corriere della Sera, 21 April 2007; La Repubblica, 2 February 2008.

24 La Repubblica, 27 November 2007.

25 Thirty-seven inhumations, excavation directed by Alessandra Cerrito: Il Tempo, 16 February 2007.

26 Review by Fentress, E. in American journal of Archaeology 111 (2007), 365–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar . For the genesis of the new display, see La Rocca, F., ‘L'Esedra del Marco Aurelio nel palazzo dei Consenatori’, Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma 20 (2006), 178–97Google Scholar.

27 Carruba, A., La Lupa Capitolina. Un bronzo medievale (Rome, 2006)Google Scholar.

28 The debate has been summarized by Bartoloni, G., ‘La Lupa Capitolina: nuove prospettive di studio’. Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma 20 (2006), 221–4Google Scholar.

29 For the circumstances of its discovery, in a large deposit of fragmentary bronzes, see Sacchi Lodispoto, G., ‘Gli scavi archeologici del vicolo delle Palme in Trastevere’, Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma 31 (1984), 3–22Google Scholar . The rear portion of the bull is currently displayed in the Sala dei Magistrati.

30 Pasquali, L., ‘Un cavallo di bronzo per più cavalieri. La scoperta di un originale greco a Roma’, Forma Urbis 12 (6) (2007), 37–40Google Scholar . For a more prosaic opinion, see Stuart-Jones, H., Catalogue of the Palazzo dei Consenatori (Oxford, 1926), 172Google Scholar : ‘no more than a Roman copy’.

31 From December 2006 to June 2007. A detailed and beautifully illustrated catalogue was issued: Tornei, M. (ed.), Roma. Memorie dal sottosuolo. Ritrovamenti archeologici 1980/2006 (Rome, 2006)Google Scholar.

32 See Arena, M. and Carruba, A., Opus sedile di Porta Marina (Rome, 2005)Google Scholar.

33 To be published by De Nuccio, M. and Pergola, S., ‘Dai depositi al Museo. Il cortile del tempio di Apollo Sosiano in Circo Flaminio’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale in Roma 108 (2007 [in press])Google Scholar.

34 Il Messaggero, 25 January 2007.

35 Catalogue: I Nostoi. Capolavori ritrovati (Loreto/Ancona, 2007). Additional works, notably the ‘Morgantina Aphrodite’ from the Getty, are expected to return in the coming years. The wonderful ivory face of a divinity, found in the countryside near Anguillara Sabazia and recovered from a London dealer, is assumed to have originated at a temple in Rome (Giuliano, A., ‘Un volto di avorio’, Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia di Archeologia 77 (2004–2005), 289–308)Google Scholar.

36 For a guidebook, including information on all exhibits mentioned here, see: Ungaro, L., Il Museo dei Fori Imperiali nei Mercati di Traiano (Rome, 2007)Google Scholar . The full display of material from the Forum of Trajan awaits definitive arrangement.

37 Cautiously attributed by Rossella Rea to the decoration of the interior of the amphitheatre itself: La Repubblica, 10 April 2008; Il Messaggero, 10 April 2008.