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NOTES FROM ROME 2019–20
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2020
Abstract
This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (June 2019 – June 2020) 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 (giugno 2019 - giugno 2020) tratte da conferenze, convegni, mostre e relazioni su giornali.
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1 The long campaign of excavations awaits publication (brief mentions in past ‘Notes’: 2008–9: 296; 2013–14: 316). For a helpful summary of the most significant results, as divulged at the BSR workshop Il Comizio dei re, see Carafa, P., ‘La prima Roma di Mary Beard’ in Santuario di Vesta. Pendice del Palatino e Via Sacra, eds Carandini, A., Carafa, P., D'Alessio, M., Filippi, D. (Rome, 2017), 54–5Google Scholar.
2 On these statues, see last year's ‘Notes’, 311–12. The study day (which included papers relating to similar sculpture from Terracina) is in press: Giornata di Studi. Statue di barbari in marmi colorati. Novità del Foro Romano e da Terracina, eds Patrizia Fortini e Sabrina Violante.
3 La Repubblica 17/2/2020; Corriere della Sera 18/2/2020, 22/2/2020 (newspaper reports cited here may be found at www.patrimoniosos.it in the Rassegna Stampa section). Short notice also in Current World Archaeology 100 (April–May 2020), 7. In reality, the ‘vaulting’ may belong to the medieval ossuary which Boni found overlying the archaic remains (see n. 5, below); the whole assemblage was then surrounded by Bartoli's protective structure.
4 For the sources, see F. Coarelli, ‘Sepulcrum Romuli’, LTUR 4, 295–6.
5 G. Boni, ‘Esplorazioni nel Comizio’, NSA 1900, 298–300. The ‘sarcophagus’ was more correctly described as a ‘cassa o vasca rettangolare’ measuring 1.4 × 0.7 × 0.77m and containing ‘ciottoli, cocci di vasi grossolani, frammenti di vasellame campano, valve di pectunculus e un pezzetto d'intonaco colorito di rosso’. The ‘altar’ was a “tronco di cilindro di tufo”, diameter 0.75 m.
6 P. Carafa, Il Comizio di Roma dalle origini all'età di Augusto, Rome 1998, 39–45.
7 Andrea Carandini, for example, writing in Il Corriere della Sera (11/3/2020), put forward an entirely different reconstruction: the remains are the Puteal of Attus Navius, a sixth-century sacred deposit located by the sources in the same generic terms as referred to above for the Sepulcrum Romuli, that is pro Rostris, in Comitio, ante Curiam, etc. (F. Coarelli, ‘Puteal in Comitio’, LTUR 4, 170–1).
8 To be published in a forthcoming issue of BCAR.
9 For a recent survey of the works, see Baldassarri, P., ‘Indagini archeologiche a Palazzo Valentini. Nuovi dati per la ricostruzione del tempio di Traiano e Plotina divi’, RM 122 (2016), 171–202Google Scholar.
10 Richardson, L., A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Baltimore 1992), 175–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar; J. Packer, ‘Forum Traiani’, LTUR 2, 350.
11 In another paper, Claudio Parisi Presicce proposed to move the temple into Regio IX, on the basis of a new reading of fragment 36b of the marble plan, which bears the caption TEMPL[---]. This, located by Rodríguez Almeida to the north of the Hadrianium, is traditionally interpreted as the missing Templum Matidiae (E. Rodríguez Almeida, Forma Urbis Marmorea, Rome (1981), 127–9). Parisi Presicce detected an interpunct in the unusually wide space between the M and the P and instead proposed Tem[plum] Pl[otinae et Traiani] (a most unusual abbreviation for ‘templum’). It was pointed out by moderator Domenico Palombi that this would put the monument in the wrong Augustan region (the Regionary Catalogues have it in Regio VIII), and call for the anomalous reversal of the usual order of the dedicatees’ names.
12 The discovery was reported by Daniela Porro, of the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma. See RomaToday 23/10/19 (http://www.romatoday.it/eventi/cultura/la-tomba-della-pellegrina-via-del-governo-vecchio.html) and https://www.ansa.it/canale_viaggiart/it/regione/lazio/2019/10/23/roma-spunta-la-tomba-della-pellegrina_a297bae4–3e4a-46b5-af75-f3baf421cd58.html
13 Corriere della Sera 6/5/2020.
14 See V. Sampaolo, ‘Le decorazioni dionisiache del Palatino a Napoli’, in Aureo filo. La prima reggia di Nerone sul Palatino, eds S. Borghini, A. D'Alessio, M. Scoccianti (Milan 2019), 25–31. On the reopening of the nymphaeum, see last year's ‘Notes’, 312.
15 Corriere della Sera 21/7/2019. RomaToday 10/7/2019 (http://www.romatoday.it/eventi/cultura/sculture-bnl-palazzo-altemps.html).
16 The best-preserved piece, the boxer, was discovered during the construction of Palazzo Gentili beneath the north slope of the Quirinal in 1737 and has received some study: M. Cadario, ‘Statua di Pugile’, in Nike. Il gioco e la vittoria, ed. A. La Regina, Milan 2003, 162–3.
17 On past intentions to display the Torlonia marbles, see ‘Notes’ 2007–8, 307; 2015–16, 304. For a useful overview of the proposed 2020 exhibition, see D. Jones, ‘Hidden treasures’, Minerva 31.2 (March/April 2020), 20–30.
18 The conference will be published as: Cardinal Alessandro Albani: Collecting, Dealing and Diplomacy in Grand Tour Europe, eds M. Bevilacqua, C. Hornsby.