Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Monteverde
- Vigna Randanini
- Vigna Cimarra
- Via Casilina (formerly Labicana)
- Villa Torlonia
- Other sites in Rome
- Unknown provenance
- Glass and other objects
- App.1 Non-Jewish inscriptions concerning Jews
- App.2 Dis Manibus in possibly Jewish inscriptions
- App.3 Inscription probably not from Rome
- App.4 Inscriptions not considered Jewish
- Index
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Concordance with CIJ
- Addenda to JIWE i
- Plates
- Map 1 Map
- Map 2 Monteverde Catacomb (area discovered 1904-6)
- Map 3 Monteverde Catacomb (area discovered 1913)
- Map 4 Vigna Randanini Catacomb
- Map 5 Via Casilina Catacomb
- Map 6 Villa Torlonia Catacombs
- Plate section
Vigna Randanini
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Monteverde
- Vigna Randanini
- Vigna Cimarra
- Via Casilina (formerly Labicana)
- Villa Torlonia
- Other sites in Rome
- Unknown provenance
- Glass and other objects
- App.1 Non-Jewish inscriptions concerning Jews
- App.2 Dis Manibus in possibly Jewish inscriptions
- App.3 Inscription probably not from Rome
- App.4 Inscriptions not considered Jewish
- Index
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Concordance with CIJ
- Addenda to JIWE i
- Plates
- Map 1 Map
- Map 2 Monteverde Catacomb (area discovered 1904-6)
- Map 3 Monteverde Catacomb (area discovered 1913)
- Map 4 Vigna Randanini Catacomb
- Map 5 Via Casilina Catacomb
- Map 6 Villa Torlonia Catacombs
- Plate section
Summary
DISCOVERY AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY
The catacomb beneath the estate belonging to Ignace Randanini in the angle between the Via Appia Antica and Via Appia Pignatelli was first investigated by the owner in 1857 (Marucchi (1903), p.214). The ‘official’ excavations began on 1st May 1859, starting from the Via Appia Pignatelli entrance and clearing the eastern part of the main gallery as far as the first light-well. Further excavations in 1862 revealed the rest of the catacomb, and showed that there was another entrance near the Via Appia Antica. Garrucci was responsible for the work, but unfortunately published no detailed account of how it progressed. He refers ((1862), pp.64-6) to the discovery of the lower level (East-West Gall.C and beyond) on 18th May 1862. His publication of the inscriptions was also inadequate, with few details of the plaques and almost no information about findspots. Some inscriptions were copied by C.L. Visconti in 1862-3, and his copies were preserved in de Rossi's ms. which Frey used.
Many plaques which were found on the floor were fixed to the walls in the 1860s; cf. no.325, which was moved at least once. Marucchi ((1903), p.214) visited the catacomb in 1884 and recorded the positions of the inscriptions then. Frey (1928) studied the catacomb in the 1920s when it was owned by Marchese Alberto di Roccagiovine, and noted that many inscriptions were no longer where Marucchi had recorded them. The current positions of many are completely different from those recorded by Marucchi.
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- Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe , pp. 173 - 331Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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