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L’uso del carbone e della cenere nell’edilizia antica
No full textRiassunto
L’intervento prende in considerazione le modalit e le funzionalit dell’utilizzo del carbone nell’edilizia antica. Le fonti antiche fanno frequente riferimento a questo aspetto specifico e le ricerche archeologiche hanno spesso rimesso in evidenza un impiego del legno combusto nelle preparazioni pavimentali o nei livelli basali delle strutture. Non sempre, tuttavia, tale prassi stata considerata con piena cognizione di causa e con consapevolezza delle potenzialit del materiale carbonioso per deumidificare i suoli. La revisione di documentazione di scavi del passato e recenti rivela con sempre maggiore evidenza l’ottima conoscenza empirica dei costruttori antichi in relazione alle propriet dello specifico materiale.
Abstract
The paper examines the operative and functional aspects of the use of charcoal in ancient construction practices. Ancient sources often mention this specific practice, and archaeological research has frequently documented the use of combusted wood in floor preparation layers or in the basal levels of structures. However, this practice has not always been considered with full knowledge and awareness of the potential of carbons and ash to dehumidify soils. The review of documentation from past and recent excavations clearly reveals the excellent empirical knowledge of ancient builders in relation to the properties of this material
Entrando ad Aquileia: la porta settentrionale e l’architettura ellenistica nella Cisalpina repubblicana
No full textThe contribution deals with the study of the northern city gate of the fortified walls of the Latin colony of Aquileia, founded in 181 BC. This opening was built along the republican wall and allowed the via Postumia to enter the city; it was excavated in the Seventies of the nineteenth century by Austrian archaeologists and later in the Thirties of the last century by G. Brusin. The discovery in the archive of the Museum of Aquileia of an unpublished, detailed plan of the first excavations and of the excavation diaries of the most recent intervention allows to shed new light on the architectural features of the monument. Furthermore, the examination of the building materials, construction techniques and dimensional characters indicate a probable decisive role of Greek craftsmen in the design and construction of the urban gate. This confirms the relevance of the Hellenic workers in Aquileia and in the Cisalpina region during the second century B.C
Un ricordo e alcune speranze
No full textIl contributo ricorda l'impegno di Luciano Bosio, esimio studioso di Topografia antica presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova, negli anni Ottanta e Novanta del secolo scorso. Così vengono ripercorse alcuni episodi e situazioni che segnarono la personale esperienza scientifica nel clima di crescita della disciplina. Vengono infine espresse alcune speranze per la prosecuzione degli studi di topografia storica
L’uso del sottosuolo nell’edilizia privata della Cisalpina romana
No full textAnalisi dei vani sotterranei, interrati e seminterrati pertinenti ad abitazioni private romane della Cisalpina
Le indagini dell’Università di Padova presso le Terme del Sarno a Pompei (VIII 2, 17-21)
No full textBetween 2016 and 2017 the University of Padua worked in Pompeii within the MACH Project with the aim of developing an integrated approach for the study of ancient buildings and archaeological sites. As case study, the Sarno Bath complex was selected, located along the southern border of the city (VIII 2, 17-21): a fi ve-story building, where residential areas, a public-private bath, storages coexisted interconnected. Th e paper presents some relevant results on three aspects: a critical review of the previous studies, the building plan in its last phase, the environmental context outside of the Sarno complex, in the suburbs of the city
Terra, legno e materiali deperibili nell’architettura antica
No full textIl Convegno internazionale promosso dal Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali dell’Università di
Padova ha approfondito il tema dell’uso dei materiali deperibili (terra, legno ed altri elementi
vegetali) nell’architettura antica, con particolare riferimento agli edifici del mondo greco,
magnogreco, fenicio-punico, etrusco e romano. L’idea di dedicare un convegno a questa
tematica nota dalla consapevolezza che l’ampio panorama di studi sull’architettura antica
ha rivolto finora un modesto interesse all’impiego di materiali deperibili a scopo edilizio, sia
a causa dell’ampia diffusione negli edifici antichi di altre tipologie di materiali da costruzione,
quali in primis la pietra e il laterizio, sia per il minor livello di conservazione di strutture in
terra cruda e/o legno, sia infine per la maggiore difficoltà di riconoscimento e di analisi di tali
strutture in fase di scavo. Gli Atti del Convegno raccolgono nuovi dati sulla diffusione delle
tecniche costruttive in materiali deperibili, col fine ultimo di definire un quadro aggiornato
sull’impiego di legno e terra in epoca antica in strutture ed edifici delle regioni del Mediterraneo
e dell’Europa continentale, tra la Preistoria e la tarda antichità
Teatri greci arcaici. Settant’anni dopo
No full textThe volume Teatri greci arcaici. Da Minosse a Pericle (1947) is the most complex and controversial scientific outcome of the research concerning Greek archaeology of Carlo Anti. Seventy years after its release we propose a rereading of the work under different aspects. First, its reception by the scholarly community of the time will be illustrated followed by an accurate listing of the archaeological investigations conducted since then. Thereby it will be observed how much the new excavations contributed to understand the origin of the architectural forms of the Greek theatre.
The paper reveals how the difficult research path undertaken by Carlo Anti received strong critiques in the first decades, that only slowly became more positive in the following years. Especially in the last 20 years theoretical researches and practical field activities have reevaluated the main ideas of the venetian scholar and have demonstrated with great evidence its absolute worth and central significance. To shed light on the outline of the theory regarding the “Greek Archaic Theaters” the recent investigations conducted in the area of the Theater of Dionysus in Athens are of particular importance since they revealed the presence of a rectilinear wooden arrangement perfectly comparable with the one imagined without any proof by Carlo Anti in 1947
All’alba della città romana: il deposito votivo del Tempio romano di Nora
No full textAbstract: The paper deals with the discovery of 18 silver coins and an anthropomorphic clay slab recovered in 2008 during the excavation of the Roman Temple of Nora by the University of Padua. The precious finds were brought to light in the layers of restructuring of the sanctuary operated in the Roman imperial age (III century AD). The same area of the discovery was already occupied by a first building of probable sacred character, built in the Archaic age, and by a second valuable building, built between 260 and 240 BC. The production of the slab is placed in the III century BC and the formation of the hoard, consisting of the most ancient Greek and Roman coins found in Sardinia, can be placed between the years 230- 225 BC. Various elements and clues lead us to hypothesize that the coins and the mask were donated in the new sacred building in these crucial years for the history of the island. Indeed the evidence generates some reflections on the possible relationship between the votive offers and the contemporary constitution of the provincia of Sardinia et Corsica, as on the role of Nora in the Roman expansionist policy in Sardinia
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