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Notes from Rome 2012–13

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2013

Robert Coates-Stephens
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Abstract

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (primarily in 2012, but also in the first part of 2013), 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 2012, ma anche per gli inizi del 2013), tratte da conferenze,convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 81 , October 2013 , pp. 341 - 349
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Copyright © British School at Rome 2013 

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1 Heinz-Jurgen Beste offered a variety of reconstructions. The most detailed summary remains that of Huelsen (‘Das Angebliche Templum Matidiae bei Piazza Capranica’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 14 (1899), 141–53Google Scholar), who corrected Rodolfo Lanciani's statement that all of the colonnade's columns were of cipollino (‘La basilica Matidies et Marcianes dei cataloghi’, Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale in Roma 11 (1883), 5–16Google Scholar.

2 ‘Notes from Rome 2011–12’, Papers of the British School at Rome 80 (2012), 328–9Google Scholar.

3 Frommel, C. and Pentiricci, M. (eds), L'antica basilica di San Lorenzo in Damaso 1 (Rome, 2009), 205–32Google Scholar (wherein a thorough selection of comparanda for such structures).

4 Cozza, L., ‘I resti archeologici visibili nel sottosuolo. Necessità di conoscerli e registrarli’, in Bietti Sestieri, A.M., Morganti, G., Pavolini, C., Piranomonte, M. and Scoppola, F. (eds), Roma. Archeologia nel centro 2 (Rome, 1985), 308–12Google Scholar.

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6 The excavations were carried out by Archeologia Rilievi Restauro srl under the direction of the SSBAR.

7 The results will be published in a forthcoming edition of the online Bollettino di Archeologia.

8 For last year's coverage, see ‘Notes 2011–12’ (above, n. 2), 328.

9 Il Tempo 14 January 2013. Most of the newspaper reports referred to here can be consulted at http://patrimoniosos.it in the ‘Rassegna Stampa’ section.

10 To be published in a forthcoming edition of Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia di Archeologia.

11 A number of red-painted examples are recorded from the Colosseum in CIL VI 32262.

12 La Repubblica 17 February 2013.

13 Carafa, P., Carandini, A. and Arvanitis, N., ‘Iuppiter Stator in Palatio ritrovato?’, Archeologia Viva 32.158 (March/April 2013), 28–37Google Scholar (no plans, sections or measurements were given).

14 La Repubblica 16 May 2012.

15 Il Tempo 31 October 2012 and 2 November 2012.

16 Roma Today 8 January 2013; La Repubblica 8 January 2013; Il Fatto Quotidiano 1 March 2013. The excavations were carried out by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, under the direction of Alessandro Betori.

17 de Rossi, G.B., ‘Di alquante iscrizioni cristiane trovate presso Marino’, Bullettino di Archeologia Cristiana 2.3 (1872), 146–55Google Scholar.

18 Coates-Stephens, R., ‘Notes from Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009), 291–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

19 Rossi, D. (ed.), Il mausoleo di Marco Nonio Macrino sulla Via Flaminia (Milan, 2012)Google Scholar. See also Coates-Stephens, ‘Notes from Rome’ (above, n. 18).

20 La Repubblica 15 December 2012; Il Fatto Quotidiano 28 December 2012.

21 Projects reported in La Repubblica 24 August 2012 and 14 March 2013 (Pyramid) and Il Tempo 24 June 2102 (catacombs).

22 Il Messaggero 6 August 2012 (Romulus): the intention is to use the funerary chamber to display ancient sculpture from the Comune collections. Il Corriere della Sera 29 March 2013 (Gallienus).

23 A new, bilingual guidebook was issued: Piranomonte, M. (ed.), Le Terme di Caracalla / The Baths of Caracalla (Milan, 2012)Google Scholar. For an alternative interpretation of the ‘fossa’, see Cosi, D., ‘Il mitreo nelle Terme di Caracalla’, in Bianchi, U. (ed.), Mysteria Mithrae (Leiden, 1979), 933–42Google Scholar.

24 In a later phase the hall was repaved in basalt blocks for industrial or service use. Excavated in 1866, it remains substantially unpublished. See Middleton, J., The Remains of Ancient Rome 1 (London/Edinburgh, 1892), 71Google Scholar and 213; and (for an illustration) Tomei, M.A., Scavi francesi sul Palatino (Rome, 1999), 485Google Scholar.

25 Catalogue: La Rocca, E., Parisi Presicce, C. and Lo Monaco, A. (eds), L'età dell'equilibrio (Loreto, 2012)Google Scholar. The contradictions inherent in the exhibition's title are discussed by Eugenio La Rocca at pp. 19–25 (‘Società e arte nell'impero romano del II secolo d.C.’).

26 Lanciani, R., Pagan and Christian Rome (London, 1892), 302Google Scholar.

27 Ciampini, G., De Sacris Aedificiis a Constantino Magno Constructis (Rome, 1693), 11–13Google Scholar and tab. II. The pieces were catalogued by Nicoletta Bernacchio under the direction of Anna Maria De Strobel (Musei Vaticani).

28 Gasparri, C. and Paris, R. (eds), Palazzo Massimo. Le collezioni (Milan, 2013), 378–80Google Scholar.

29 CIL VI 40910.

30 Insalaco, A., ‘I mosaici degli atleti dalle Terme di Caracalla’, Archeologia Classica 41 (1989), 313Google Scholar and fig. 20.

31 Aurigemma, S., The Baths of Diocletian and the Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, 1963), 56–7Google Scholar.

32 On the ‘reversible restoration’, see Il Messaggero 27 March 2013. The group was found at Ostia in 1918 (Giuliano, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale Romano. Le sculture 1.8 (Rome, 1985), 219–24Google Scholar).

33 For the vicissitudes of the marble plan's display, see Ferrea, L., ‘Documentare la Forma Urbis marmorea’, in Meneghini, R. and Santangeli Valenzani, R. (eds), Formae Urbis Romae (Rome, 2006), 41–51Google Scholar. Lanciani himself described assembling 167 of the-then total of 1,049 fragments for its inauguration in April 1903 in only 40 days, with the help of Huelsen (Notes from Rome (ed. A. Cubberley) (London, 1988), 381–2).

34 Carettoni, G., Colini, A.M., Cozza, L. and Gatti, G., La pianta marmorea di Roma antica: Formae Urbis Romae (Rome, 1960)Google Scholar; E. Rodríguez Almeida, Forma Urbis marmorea: aggiornamento generale 1980 (Rome, 1981).

35 http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/ (last updated October 2008).

36 A similar arrangement was briefly displayed at 2009's Divus Vespasianus exhibition (Coarelli, F., Divus Vespasianus (Milan, 2009), 430–2, 438–9, 443, 450–1Google Scholar).