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Tempio di Giove Anxur
No full textIn un nuovo progetto di scavo diretto da ricercatori tedeschi e italiani (LMU /TMU/Unibo), gli archeologi hanno scoperto prove che suggeriscono che Terracina sia stato il sito del primo tempio ellenistico della regione e un importante insediamento monastico nel medioevo. In alto, sopra l'antica città di Tarracina (oggi Terracina) a sud di Roma, si trova un santuario a terrazze di grandi dimensioni che includeva, probabilmente tre diverse aree templari. Gli edifici offrivano un ampio prospetto sul porto da un lato e dall’altro sulla via Appia, il collegamento più importante della città con Roma. Francesca Diosono, Paul Scheding ed Enrico Cirelli, nel corso di un progetto di scavo che si prevede durerà tre anni, concentreranno la loro attenzione principalmente sul cosiddetto ‘Piccolo Tempio’ e su altre aree dell’insediamento. Ora è stato possibile ricostruire la sua esatta estensione e la sua cronologia al II secolo a.C. Questo lo rende la più antica struttura ellenistica di questo tipo nel Lazio, e forse il primissimo tempio a terrazze della regione.
Il tempio stesso e Monte Sant'Angelo, il colle su cui fu eretto, un tempo erano riservati a diversi tipi di cerimonie religiose. Gli scavi hanno confermato che la facciata del tempio era orientata, non verso il porto, ma verso la via Appia e la città sottostante. Al santuario è associato un numero insolitamente elevato di cisterne, riutilizzate e rinforzate dai monaci nell'alto medioevo.
Gli scavi hanno anche portato alla luce tracce di un insediamento preromano che risale al VII o forse addirittura al IX secolo a.C. Anche chi ha vissuto qui prima della costruzione del tempio è ancora sconosciuto. Fonti letterarie risalenti al VI secolo aC attestano la presenza dei Volsci nella zona, ma queste popolazioni non sono state associate in modo definitivo ad alcun ritrovamento archeologico della zona. Ulteriori lavori nei prossimi due anni potranno aiutare a chiarire come si sviluppò il Santuario di Monte Sant'Angelo prima e dopo la conquista della regione da parte dei Romani e la forma del Monastero verso il XIV secol
Villa or sanctuary? The so-called villa of Clodius at the Via Appia
No full textWithin the framework of a recently established Danish-Italian research project, “Contextualising the past in the Alban Hills”, it has been possible to undertake investigations of the Roman archaeological remains preserved inside Villa Santa Caterina,
Castel Gandolfo, at the 13th mile on the Via Appia. The last scholar to study this complex was G. Lugli in 1914, and it has ever since been interpreted as a Roman villa, sometimes called the Villa of Clodius. This article reassesses this interpretation in light of the
ongoing investigations and argues that the building on the site should rather be interpreted as the sacrarium/sacellum of the goddess Bona Dea known from literary sources
Contestualizzare il passato nei Colli Albani : ville, tombe e spazi sacri tra il XII e il XVIII miglio dell’antica via Appia
No full textQuesto contributo presenta obiettivi e metodi di un progetto internazionale recentemente iniziato. Esso si concentra dal punto di vista territoriale sui Colli Albani, e più specificatamente sul tratto tra il XII e il XVIII miglio della via Appia nel periodo compreso tra il IV secolo a.C. ed il IV secolo d.C. Scopo del progetto è analizzare le interconnessioni sociali, religiose e spaziali e comprendere come le dinamiche umane interagiscano con le strutture religiose e residenziali. Tra queste strutture sono comprese ville e tombe allineate lungo la strada così come luoghi di culto. L’articolo presenta,
inoltre, le attività che il gruppo di ricerca ha condotto tra maggio e settembre 2017. Queste includono le attività di rilievo e prospezione geofisica presso la cosiddetta Villa di Clodio in località S. Caterina di Castel Gandolfo; la campagna topografica
lungo il XII miglio della via Appia; l’inizio dello studio della collezione di antichità Vito Volterra.This contribution presents aims and methods of an international project, which has been launched recently. The geographical focus is the Alban Hills and more specifically the stretch of the via Appia between the 12th and the 18th milestones during the 4th century B.C. and the 4th century A.D. The project aims to investigate social, religious and spatial
interconnections and to explore the interplay between human dynamics and religious and residential structures. These structures include villas, tombs aligned along the road, as well as cult sites. A further aim of this article is to introduce the research activities, activities accomplished by the team between May and September 2017. These include a field survey of the so-called Villa of Clodius in the locality of S. Caterina, Castel Gandolfo; a landscape and architectural survey at the 12th milestone of the via Appia, and the first phase of a study of the Vito Volterra collection of antiquities
The Temple B in Pietrabbondante (Isernia, Italy) as a Case Study of Seismic Shield Properties of Roman-Italic Temple Foundations and Podiums
No full textThe Roman-Italic temples of central Italy, located along the Apennine ridge, an area of high seismic risk, have often been damaged by earthquakes and then reconstructed, as reported even in ancient sources. The Roman religious tradition prescribed that the temples be elevated on a podium, that acts as a sacred space, as the foundation, and as an architecturally defined above-the-ground element. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that combines a deep archaeological and architectural knowledge of ancient constructions with expertise in seismic engineering and the analysis of mechanical wave propagation, the contribution illustrates the current results on the ‘seismic shield’ of a selected case study, the Temple B of Pietrabbondante, whose foundation’s walls shape cellular compartments filled by layers of clay coming from the surrounding area. A three-dimensional, multiphysics, finite element, numerical model—taking into account either the geometry and the material of the foundations or the mechanical features of the soil between foundation walls—permits the simulation of the propagation of seismic waves towards the construction and the analysis of their impact on the foundation system. Underlying this working hypothesis is a recent field of research concerning ‘seismic metamaterials’, i.e. the introduction into foundation soils of suitable elements capable of deviating seismic waves, thus protecting constructions from earthquakes. The ‘seismic shield’ effect mostly depends on the geometric arrangement of the artificial aspects introduced into the soil: this led to thinking that colossal buildings, such as amphitheatres, have survived several seismic events over the centuries due to the particular cellular morphology of the foundations. It is a fascinating hypothesis, opening the way to new interpretations of the capacity of ancient monumental buildings to withstand earthquakes
Le prime fasi edilizie del tempio di Diana a Nemi
No full textIl periodo medio repubblicano (IV-III sec. a.C.) rappresenta uno dei periodi cruciali nella storia di Roma e del Lazio, ma anche uno dei meno conosciuti. Dopo la prima sintesi del 1973 compiuta con la mostra Roma medio repubblicana, e rimasta praticamente isolata, due convegni internazionali (Roma medio repubblicana. Dalla conquista di Veio alla battaglia di Zama e Oltre “Roma medio repubblicana”. Il Lazio fra i Galli e la battaglia di Zama) vogliono oggi affrontare di nuovo sia il tema della crescita e dei cambiamenti della città di Roma e del suo territorio, sia quello della ricostruzione del profilo complesso e articolato del Lazio antico fra gli inizi del IV e la fine del III secolo a.C., analizzando gli elementi fondamentali che ne possono restituire il quadro di insieme
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Going Through a Lake of Darkness : The Nemi Crater as a Gateway to the Roman Underworld
No full textThe lake of Avernus and the lake of Nemi have played a very important role in Roman religion and mythology. Both lay on collapsed volcanic craters along the Tyrrhenian coastline, and the peculiar nature of the landscape surrounding the two lakes is suggestive enough to feel a divine presence in these places. But connections between the two lakes are less superficial than it appears. In his Commentary on the Aeneid (VI 136), Servius establishes a strong parallelism between the lakes of Avernus and of Nemi. According to this author, Aeneas has to pluck a golden bough to enter the Underworld, whose gate is near the Avernus Lake, following the instruction of the Sybil: it was this very same sacred bough that played a central role in the life-or-death fight between the rex nemorensis (the “king of the wood” in charge) and the pretender in the cult founded by Orestes in Nemi, once he returned from Tauris. The centrality of a bough to be torn off to go below the lake in both myths seems to imply that the lake of Nemi itself can be linked to the Underworld. The Avernus in particular is known for being a gateway to the Underworld: Virgil presents the lake in this way, and he locates here Aeneas’s katabasis, while Homer places here the Odysseus’ necromancy. It appears therefore logic to explore the hypothesis that the lake of Nemi could have had similar relation to the Underworld. Finally, the paper also examines the possibility that the presence of a passage to the Underworld is also connected to divination activities
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