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Un intervento edilizio di età augustea nel santuario di Tas-Silg a Malta
No full textSubsequently to the preliminary considerations about the Egyptianizing frieze, recently published on
the Malta Archaeological Review, we here deepen the study of them, with particular regards to the reconstruction
of the development of the frieze, of its probable placing, and to the figure of the customer.
Two hypotheses of sequence of the slabs are here proposed, slabs who were meant to form a continuous
frieze placed within one of the two rooms aside of the temple. The Egyptianizing frieze, which we can
date to the first Augustan age, was part of a limited building work which involved also the substitution
of the Corinthian capitals of the space. To this limited work could be related a Sempronius Atratinus,
mentioned in the only Roman epigraph found in Tas-Silġ, which we might maybe identified as the 34
B.C. consul suffectus
Appendice. L'altare ellenistico del santuario: proposta di identificazione e ipotesi ricostruttiva
No full textI c.d. “templi romano-africani a tre celle”: note sull’origine e la diffusione di una tipologia architettonica nell’Africa romana
No full textThis paper focuses on the so-called Roman-African temples, an architectural typology well represented in Africa Proconsularis moreover during 2nd and 3th century A.D. Despite they have been considered for long time as a form of “resistance” to Roman penetration in Africa, recently some Authors have noted that this interpretation is based on a cultural prejudice. In the following pages some cases of study are illustrated with particular attention to the pre-Roman phases (when presents), in order to point out the relationship between the earlier structures of worship and the construction of Roman temple
Vimercate in età romana: elementi per la definizione di un centro dell'ager Mediolanensis
No full textIl centro romano di Vimercate, compreso nell’ager Mediolanensis, conserva, rispetto ad altri insediamenti della Brianza, un ricco patrimonio di natura soprattutto epigrafica e numismatica, cui si aggiunge il ponte romano di San Rocco, pur pesantemente rimaneggiato in età medievale. Lo scavo effettuato tra il 1999 e il 2000 in piazza Marconi portò alla luce, in due aree contigue, parte della necropoli frequentata nel corso del I-II secolo d.C. (alla stessa erano riferibili tombe di III-pieno IV secolo rinvenute nel 1933) e un’area artigianale utilizzata nel corso del III secolo d.C. per la lavorazione di manufatti in bronzo su ampia scala. Questi ritrovamenti andavano ad aggiungersi ai pochi dati noti grazie alle esplorazioni condotte negli anni ’80 nel Santuario della Beata Vergine del Rosaio e alla cisterna di via Cesare Battisti, intercettata nel 1959. Nonostante questa situazione piuttosto disomogenea, l’interesse per il patrimonio archeologico di Vimercate e del territorio non è mai venuto meno, come dimostra l’allestimento, all’interno del Museo del territorio vimercatese (MUST), della “Sala delle origini” dedicata al periodo romano. Il contributo intende ripercorrere brevemente i dati noti per cercare di inquadrare il centro (forse un vicus di una certa rilevanza) alla luce di situazioni simili individuate nell’Italia settentrional
Dalla cava al (non) finito, al demolito: archeologia di un cantiere. Il caso della c.d. stoà-basilica a Hierapolis di Frigia (Turchia)
No full textThis paper focuses on the so called stoà-basilica in the North Agorà in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey), in particular on the aspects related to the organization of the building site and the implementation of the central body of the building. The stoà runs along the eastern side of the big square created starting from the Hadrian Age and achieved under Antoninus Pius. Recent archaeometric analysis conducted on some architectural blocks allowed to determine the marbles provenance: the quarries involved in the building construction are locals, and located very close to the site.
Due to the dimensions of the stoà-basilica and to the choice to invest substantial resources in the polychromatic breccia, used in upper level pillars and balustrades, the necessity to have large quantities of materials at disposals, and of huge blocks at a moderate price, let to accept even pieces which would have normally rejected in the quarry.
The signs of working indicate frequent episodes of fixing testified by the binders’ housing and by the holes for cramps and dowels; the fractures, having occurred during the phase of the implementation and above all within the bigger blocks, are due to the quality of marble. Another note is related to the operations of assembly and to the use of iron cramps and dowels, concentrated in the building’s foreparts, so to guarantee stability to the structure. Lastly, some remarks concern the monument’s life in Byzantine period, when the stoà became a quarry of construction materials
Il fregio egittizzante del santuario di Tas-Silġ
No full textThe excavations that took place in the Ashtart-
Hera sanctuary in Tas-Silġ during the 1960s also
brought to light, apart from several fragments
of architectural materials in limestone, some
fragments of a frieze in white marble decorated with
an Egyptianizing subject. From the analysis of the
surviving fragments it is possible to assert that on
the frieze were represented a uraeus and a winged
subject. Moreover, the comparison with a marble
slab (in a private collection) published by Anthony
Bonanno in 1998 made it possible to reconstruct
the distribution of the figurative elements within
the original frieze to which they belonged and to
hypothesize that the slab also comes from Tas-
Silġ. A series of stylistic considerations leads to the
proposal of a chronology that places the fragments
in the early Augustan age
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