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Archaeometry of Ancient Mortar-Based Materials in Roman Regio X and Neighboring Territories: A First Review
Full text linkThis review synthesizes the corpus of archaeometric and analytical investigations focused on mortar-based materials, including wall paintings, plasters, and concrete, in the Roman Regio X and neighboring territories of northeastern Italy from the mid-1970s to the present. Organized into three principal categories—wall paintings and pigments, structural and foundational mortars, and flooring preparations—the analysis highlights the main methodological advances and progress in petrographic microscopy, mineralogical analysis, and mechanical testing of ancient mortars. Despite extensive case studies, the review identifies a critical need for systematic, statistically robust, and chronologically anchored datasets to fully reconstruct socio-economic and technological landscapes of this provincial region. This work offers a programmatic research agenda aimed at bridging current gaps and fostering integrated understandings of ancient construction technologies in northern Italy. The full forms of the abbreviations used throughout the text to describe the analytical equipment are provided at the end of the document in the “Abbreviations” section
Mortar recipes through the Ages. A brief review of data from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
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Costruire ingegnosamente riutilizzando materiali poveri. L’impiego di conchiglie a fini edilizi ad Aquileia tra età repubblicana e tarda antichità
Full text linkIn this paper, we take into exam six different contexts in Roman Aquileia in which considerable amounts of shells, originally collected for different purposes (dietary consumption or purple dye production), were re-used as raw material in building activities, either inserted in mortars or used as floor foundation. Shells as building material have useful properties, which are here analyzed. Themes such as technological transmission among cultures are discussed through the examination of other attestations of these practices in the ancient Mediterranean.</jats:p
Circolazione di maestranze e saperi costruttivi nel mediterraneo antico. Il caso dei rivestimenti in malta delle cisterne punico-romane di Nora
No full textIn this research, we have analysed the coating mortars of 11 Punic-Roman cisterns of the site of Nora, in Sardinia. In most
cases, the multi-layered render sequences testimoniate several restoration activities and the prolonged use of the tanks. The aim of
this study is to recognize the “coating phases”, in order to comprehend if mortar recipes vary in time, in particular after Sardinia became a Roman province (227 BC). In order to accomplish this target, 29 mortar samples were collected from wall and floor coatings and fully analysed throughout petrographic, mineralogical, microstructural and microchemical analyses. Comparing the results with data reported in literature, it has been possible to identify e distinguish mortar types that closely follow Punic tradition from those evidencing Roman practices
Malte, calcestruzzi e intonaci dipinti in Aquileia romana. Un approccio archeometrico nello studio di miscele leganti impiegate nell'edilizia antica
Full text linkIn the present PhD thesis are reported the results of an extensive research focused on the investigation of characteristics and properties of mortar-based materials employed in Aquileia (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Northern Italy) from Roman to Early Medieval Age (II century BC VI century AD). More than 270 samples have been collected from structures and buildings spread all over of the town. The sampling activities were particularly intensive in sites currently involved in annual excavation activities, leaded by the Universities of Padova, Venice Ca' Foscari, Verona and Udine. This dataset was implemented with another series of samples collected from wall-painting fragments conserved in the deposits of the Archaeological Museum of Aquileia and in laboratories of the Universities. Material characterization was achieved throughout a multi-analytical approach comprising optical microscopy (OM), X-Ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive microanalysis (SEM-EDS). In particular situations, other analytical techniques have been also employed (XRF; Raman spectroscopy). Analytical data have been strictly crosschecked in relation with the chronology and function of the structure and decorations mortars have been collected from. The results obtained provide intriguing outcomes: it has been observed a high specialization of mixing recipes in relation to the function of mortars and concretes; also chronology of production appears to have an important role in the composition of mortar-based compounds. Such an extensive sampling has provided valuable insights for the deciphering of the relations among crafts and artisans in ancient construction and decorative activities in the site of Aquileia. The conclusions obtained result extremely innovative in comparison with past studies
Architettura antica ad Aquileia. Metodi di studio tra passato, presente e futuro
No full textl contributo affronta la storia degli studi relativi al centro di Aquileia con l’obiettivo di valutare l’evoluzione delle ricerche attorno al tema dell’architettura tra passato, presente e futuro. l’analisi degli atti degli
incontri aquileiesi degli ultimi cinquant’anni mostra una modesta attenzione ai temi delle architetture e dei loro contesti, mentre rivela maggiore attenzione ai materiali, ai documenti storico-artistici e a quelli
storico-epigrafici. Solo in anni recenti, questa tendenza, dovuta alla tradizione di studi di carattere soprattutto antiquario e sviluppata in seguito a recuperi di materiali e non in seguito allo studio sistematico dei monumenti, si è invertita. È con il XXI secolo infatti che il tema dell’architettura aquileiese viene affrontato con metodologie innovative, che prevedono anche l’applicazione di approcci tecnico-analitici allo studio dell’edilizia della città antica
Multi-analytical characterization of wall-paintings from the Roman villa of Negrar di Valpolicella (VR, Italy), Stella Mosimann Federica, Sbrolli Clelia, Dilaria Simone, Secco Michele, Favero Anna, Basso Patrizia, De Zuccato Gianni, Salvadori Monica
No full textLe ‘Grandi Terme’ di Aquileia: nuovi dati dai sondaggi geognostici sui metodi costruttivi e sulla cronologia di costruzione
No full textThe ‘Grand Baths’ of Aquileia: New data from geognosticsurveys on construction methods and construction history. Thanks to a research collaboration between the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Udine and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padova, an analytical study of the stratigraphy of a series of core drills, realized in the 2021 to investigate the underground development of the largest thermal complex of Aquileia (so-called Great Baths) was conducted. Samples of binder mixtures and wooden material were collected from the cores and analysed in laboratory, in order to acquire new important information about the layout of the foundation system of the thermal complex. Furthermore, radiometric analyses conducted on a wooden element probably belonging to the building’s foundational wooden pole provided new data which suggest that the construction may have already started during the First Tetrarchy.
Grazie ad una collaborazione di ricerca creatasi tra il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Universit di Udine ed il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell’Università di Padova stato condotto uno studio analitico delle evidenze emerse in seguito all’esecuzione, nel 2021, di alcuni carotaggi diagnostici per indagare lo sviluppo nel sottosuolo del pi grande complesso termale di Aquileia (c.d. Grandi Terme). Dai carotaggi sono stati prelevati ed analizzati con tecniche di laboratorio campioni di miscele leganti e di materiale ligneo che hanno permesso di acquisire nuove fondamentali informazioni circa l’assetto strutturale fondazionale dell’impianto termale. Inoltre, analisi radiometriche condotte su un elemento ligneo probabilmente appartenente alla palificata di fondazione dell’edificio hanno fornito nuovi dati che suggeriscono che la costruzione possa essere stata avviata già durante la prima tetrarchia
Uomo e ambiente nell’area della necropoli fenicia e punica occidentale di Nora (Cagliari, Sardegna)
No full textThe paper presents the results of the investigations carried out at the west Phoenician and Punic necropolis of Nora (Sardinia, Italy), located near the northern limit of the isthmus joining the city’s promontory to the hinterland. In particular, the study is oriented to the analysis of the relationship between the anthropic activities documented here and the geological context, characterized
by the presence of a compact sandstone bank on which the necropolis was established. In the first phase (before 7th century B.C.E.), human intervention leads to the creation of a stepped quary; the area is then exploited for the creation of an incineration necropolis, used between the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E. Later, in the Punic age, the thickness of the rocky bank was fully used for the construction of hypogeal chambers intended for burials, until, in the Roman age, massive stone material extraction operations were carried out
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