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PORTICUS AEMILIA: RESTORATION AND ENHANCHMENT OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL URBAN AREA
No full textWithin the archaeological research coordinated by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, a project of archaeological restoration and enhancement of the monumental rests of the Porticus Aemilia has been elaborated. The building, dating back to the Republican Period and whose function probably was related to the activities of the port of Tiber river, is situated on a large area (about 487 × 60 m) and it is visible only thanks to three great wall remains, that visually and historically interact with the tall modern buildings of Testaccio district. The critical point of the project, therefore, is to re-establish both the physical, vertical and functional relationships of the archaeological remains with the modern urban fabric. The theme of the restoration and the preservation of ruins has, in fact, substantially interacted with the perceptual and social aspects regarding the use of the place and restitution of its historical fragments to the community. Different reflections on the possible ways of planning came to light from the thoroughly investigation of ancient buildings, the analysis of architectural stratifications, the study of the bibliographic and archival sources, the identification of degradation phenomena and the laboratory investigations.
The first matter referred to the critical choice on the structures resulting from the dig: that choice has been made according to a conservation intervention, that means covering the Imperial and Late Ancient buildings since the possibility to transform the area in a museum centre would have involved problems of conservation and maintenance that the collectivity would not have been able to afford.
Another step for sustainability results from the active citizens involvement in the archaeological findings and the exploitation of the place through the organization of visits to the excavations and a photographic exhibition in that area. On the other hand, the most ambitious purpose of the project is to allow citizens to be able to use this place again both as a public space of the district and the city and as museum area rich of monuments. In order to ensure the maximum access to citizens, the enclosure have been removed and the original routes have been restored. In addition, the ancient monument has been composed in a way to underline and identify its forms and to be more comprehensible to the autonomous visitors. Such planning purpose, apart from being economically sustainable, makes the citizens aware of the knowledge, the use and the respect of the ancient buildings assuring therefore its preservation.
The project would therefore propose interpretation keys of the remains producing the fruition of cultural heritage which both is able to narrate the history, without overlapping to it, and can revive the relationship of the residents with the historical memory of the place. Such exploitation strategy, if it is conveniently arranged, could represent an economic investment on the unrecognizable cultural heritage which are increasingly exposed to degradation
The archaeological site of Mount Filerimos, acropolis of the ancient Ialysos, was excavated, studied and planned during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese. Although the polis was the most influential deme in pre-synoecism age, it is not, nowadays, the focus of tourists as Lindos and Kameiros are. An enhancement intervention should attract more visitors: the consequent greater availability of financial resources would allow for a repeated maintenance intervention. In fact, a lack of a continuity in the fruition/use has significantly contributed to the degradation of the rebuilt church "Our Lady" and of attached structures of the monastery, which were designed in 1930s. The project - who also aims to facilitate the fruition and the understanding of the cultural offer of the site - prepare such locations for an antiquarium. The antiquarium would bring back to Ialysos the remains of the votive offers of the temple of Athana, which are now in Rhodes. The scientific project divides, in the two built arms of the cloister, the pre-Hellenic offers from those referred to the worship of the poliadic divinity, as shown by the remains of the temple where the church was built on. The exposure of the lapidarium places the coeval architectural fragments near the structures of the Early Christian church, assuring their protection. Moreover, the understanding of the stratifications of the archaeological area and the need for a safe terraced site set the bases for the planning of itineraries aiming both to direct visitors and to protect the architectural structures.
No full textThe archaeological site of Mount Filerimos, acropolis of the ancient Ialysos, was excavated, studied and planned during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese. Although the polis was the most influential deme in pre-synoecism age, it is not, nowadays, the focus of tourists as Lindos and Kameiros are. An enhancement intervention should attract more visitors: the consequent greater availability of financial resources would allow for a repeated maintenance intervention. In fact, a lack of a continuity in the fruition/use has significantly contributed to the degradation of the rebuilt church "Our Lady" and of attached structures of the monastery, which were designed in 1930s. The project - who also aims to facilitate the fruition and the understanding of the cultural offer of the site - prepare such locations for an antiquarium. The antiquarium would bring back to Ialysos the remains of the votive offers of the temple of Athana, which are now in Rhodes. The scientific project divides, in the two built arms of the cloister, the pre-Hellenic offers from those referred to the worship of the poliadic divinity, as shown by the remains of the temple where the church was built on. The exposure of the lapidarium places the coeval architectural fragments near the structures of the Early Christian church, assuring their protection. Moreover, the understanding of the stratifications of the archaeological area and the need for a safe terraced site set the bases for the planning of itineraries aiming both to direct visitors and to protect the architectural structures
Fig.2, in M. LIVADIOTTI, Le Terme Centrali di Kos: nuovi dati per la sua ricostruzione, in The archaeological works in the Aegean islands, International Conference, Rhodes, 27 novembre-1 dicembre 2013,
No full textDesign on archaeological sites between enhancement and conservation. The museographic project of the acropolis of Mount Filerimos (Rhodes)
Full text linkThe current appearance of the archaeological area of Mount Filerimos, in the island of Rhodes, is the result of design by Rodolfo Petracco, made during the Italian occupation of Dodecanese. The site, formerly the acropolis of the ancient Ialysos, has many stratifications: a pre-hellenic cult is attested since IX cent. B.C., while the remains of architectural structures are dated between the VI cent. B.C. and 1930s, when the re-built church of "Our Lady" was enlarged with the monastery.
Purpose of the project illustrated in this paper is to improve the physical and cultural use of the site and facilitate its conservation, through a more appropriate use of the architectural structures.
The project, based mainly on historical knowledge and on the critical reading of the archaeological site, includes two different forms of museography. An "open-air" museum, designed to ensure accessibility to different categories of users, allows to visit the main archaeological remains with safety for users protecting the structures. The new access walkway to the church replaces the current and precarious path on the east foundation of the late-classic temple of Athena. Part of the design is the lapidarium set up with Early Christian and Byzantine architectural fragments. It is located close to the structures of the multilayered Church, to emphasize the connection between exposure and environmental context. The typological exhibition promotes understanding by the visitor and, at same time, the conservation of the blocks. A "traditional" archaeological museum is set up with the votive offerings to the ancient deity of the acropolis, which are preserved at the moment in the city of Rhodes. The exhibition is located in the monastic structures, strongly degraded after almost a century of abandonment. The new use of the monastery doesn’t alter its original image, respects the architectural character of the building and preserves, where is possible, its furnishings
Figg. 2 a, b, 3, 4, 5 in M. LIVADIOTTI,La Curia del Foro Vecchio di Leptis Magna: un caso poco noto di anastilosi parziale, in Restauri dell’antico. Ricerche ed esperienze nel Mediterraneo greco. Selinunte, 20-25 ottobre 2011, ROMA: L'Erma di Bretschneider
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Figg. 2 a-b, 4, 8, 12 in M. LIVADIOTTI - G. ROCCO, La Curia del Foro Vecchio di Leptis Magna: risultati preliminari di un nuovo studio architettonico, in L'Africa Romana - XIX Convegno Internazionale di Studi Trasformazione dei paesaggi del potere nell’Africa settentrionale fino alla fine del mondo antico, Sassari-Alghero, 16-19 dicembre 2010, Roma 2012, pp. 325-344
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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