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Tra scavo e dispersione. Meccanismi di vendita all’estero del materiale archeologico proveniente dagli Scavi Sermoneta a Caere
No full textL’avventura di Donna Teresa de’ Rossi Caetani, duchessa di Sermoneta, nel territorio della città etrusca di Caere (1837-1843), rappresentò una particolare quanto sconosciuta parentesi nella storia della riscoperta del mondo etrusco all’inizio del XIX secolo, in bilico tra lo spirito romantico del tempo e il lucido commercio all’estero dei reperti archeologici. Attorno all’attività e alle scoperte della Duchessa, infatti, si costituì ben presto una fitta rete di relazioni, personali e commerciali, che coinvolsero personaggi diversi e furono la base per tale dispersione, sulle cui trame si è potuto in parte far luce: tra le altre direttrici, di particolare interesse è quella che vedeva il porto di Civitavecchia come punto di partenza, attorno al quale operarono P. Manzi, D. Bucci e l’appassionato Stendhal, nelle poco note vesti di venditore di antichità, il cui operato è stato possibile ricostruire con eccezionale livello di dettaglio, dai nomi degli intermediari a quelli dei piroscafi carichi di vasi
Protohistory of an Etruscan city: Raniero Mengarelli and the discovery of Caeretan Iron Age necropolises/Protohistoire d’une ville étrusque: Raniero Mengarelli et la découverte des nécropoles caerétanes de l’Àge du Fer
No full textAt the beginning of the 20th century, while Raniero Mengarelli was carrying out the excavation of the
monumental Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, some simple burials, so different from the great
Orientalizing mounds, came to light by chance both in loc. “Sorbo” and in loc. “Cava della Pozzolana”: it was
the first time that evidences from the Iron Age were found in the city of Caere. Parallel to his most famous
archaeological campaign, Mengarelli therefore started two other excavations, between 1910 and 1916, with
a resumption in 1929, at “Sorbo”, and between 1910 and 1943, with various interruptions and restarts, in
“Cava della Pozzolana”, that led to the discovery of a total of 454 and about 430 Iron Age burials respectively.
If we add to these the approximately 200 tombs investigated a few years later (1961-1963) by the Lerici
foundation in loc. “Laghetto” and the 164 excavated more recently by M.A. Rizzo (1996-1999) on the same
site, the impressive number of about 1200 burials found is exceeded, making the necropolis of Caere among
the largest known Iron Age contexts in Etruria. However, despite this, most of the testimonies referring to
this period have remained unpublished up to now and many of the grave goods found during the excavations
have not been touched since they were deposited in the warehouses at the time, making at the same time
the necropolis of Caere one of the Iron Age contexts less known and studied in Etruria. Suffice it to say that
for a long time they have been considered evidence of a people who would have inhabited the city before
the arrival of the Etruscans.
The resumption of the study on the materials and documentation relating to the “Cava della Pozzolana”
necropolis, entrusted to the writer and subject of his PhD project, made it possible to reflect on how the
history of research has influenced our perception of a phenomenon or a historical period such as in the
specific case of the Iron Age in Caere. This communication would therefore like to dwell on some fundamental
themes that have characterized past research on the most ancient phases of Caere, and which will certainly
characterize future studies, such as: how did a non-archaeologist like Raniero Mengarelli relate to the
discovery of these important contexts that today we would define protohistorians, at a time when
protohistory had yet to define itself as a discipline? Since most of those excavations have been carried out
by Etruscologists, but often been interpreted by scholars of prehistory or protohistory, how has this
influenced our perception of the topic? Is there actually a distinction? But above all, how is it possible to take
into account what has been done so far in approaching a new analysis of finds made almost a century ago?
How this background should change our methodology
Ritorno alle origini di Caere. La ripresa dei lavori sulla necropoli di “Cava della Pozzolana”
No full textLa recente ripresa dello studio dei corredi e della documentazione relativa allo scavo effettuato tra il 1910 e il 1943 in loc. “Cava della Pozzolana” da R. Mengarelli, che mise in luce una delle più vaste necropoli dell’età del Ferro ceretane, impone una preliminare messa a punto delle articolate vicende che coinvolsero tale documentazione durante il secolo che ci separa dall’inizio delle ricerche. Il seminario è stato dunque l’occasione per effettuare tale operazione retrospettiva, oltre che opportunità per offrire un primo aggiornamento sui primi passi mossi in questi ultimi mesi da questa nuova stagione di studi e sulle sue future prospettive
La «disastrosa attività della Duchessa di Sermoneta» nel territorio ceretano. Tra scoperte, dispersione e «gravissimo e irreparabile danno della scienza archeologica»
No full textCosì nel 1941 si esprimeva R. Mengarelli sull’attività di Donna Teresa de’ Rossi Caetani, duchessa di Sermoneta, concentratasi tra il 1838 e il 1843. Da allora chiunque si sia avvicinato allo studio delle necropoli del territorio ceretano ha dovuto confrontarsi con questo nome, per due secoli avvolto da contorni indistinti e sfumati, quasi dimenticato eppure spesso ricorrente. Un approfondito lavoro d’archivio, di cui si intende dar conto in occasione del seminario, ha permesso di fare chiarezza su questo personaggio, sulla sua attività e sulle sue scoperte, la cui rianalisi ha apportato nuovi dati alla conoscenza di questo importante comparto territoriale
Macchine parlanti o macchine apprendenti? Osservazioni preliminari sull’uso dell’etero-ripetizione in produzioni di chatbot e nell’interlingua
No full textIn questo contributo presenteremo alcune osservazioni preliminari sulle interazioni scritte tra chatbot progettati per simulare conversazioni libere (cfr. McTear et al. 2016: 52) e utenti umani. Ci si soffermerà in particolare sul possibile uso strategico della ripetizione dell'input dell'utente umano, confrontando tale strategia con le funzioni conversazionali della ripetizione nelle produzioni di apprendenti di una L2. Come osservato da Pallotti (1999), la ripetizione di frammenti del turno dell'interlocutore è spesso usata dagli apprendeti come una strategia di partecipazione. In questo studio confronteremo esempi di questo meccanismo di appropriazione nell'interlingua di apprendenti di italiano L2 (tramite una selezione di dati ripresa da Grosso 2015) e nelle produzioni di chatbot.In this paper we will present some preliminary observations on written interactions between chatbots designed for «providing realistic simulations of casual conversation (or small talk)» (McTear et al. 2016: 52) and their human users. We will in particular point at possible strategic uses of repetitions of the user’s input and compare them with the conversational functions of repetition in the output of L2 speakers. As observed in Pallotti (1999), repetition of fragments of the interlocutor’s turn is often used by L2 speakers as a participation strategy. We will compare examples of this ap-propriation mechanism in the uses of Italian L2 speakers (through a selection of the data in Grosso 2015) and of chatbots
Selva la Rocca. La (ri)scoperta di un sito etrusco nel territorio ceretano meridionale
No full textThe Necropolis of Selva la Rocca could be considered one of the most important funerary sites in the southern territory of Caere, comparable with sites such as Monteroni, Le Fornaci, Procojo di Ceri and Vaccina. However, following its discovery and excavation by Donna Teresa Caetani, duchess of Sermoneta, between 1838 and 1841, its existence was almost forgotten, and the objects discovered on the site were largely lost to the antiquities trade. However, the discovery of new archival documents and the subsequent comparative study carried out with previously published materials has made it possible to provide a new analysis of almost thirty graves, which date from the 7th to the 3rd century BC. In conjunction with this, on-site reconnaissance has led to the discovery of well-preserved stretches of a road system, which it may be possible to identify as part of an ancient route linking Caere with Rome. By reflecting on this newly revealed data, it has therefore been possible to place the emerging findings within the wider context of the Caeretan territorial system and to formulate a hypothesis to identify the inhabited centre on which the Necropolis of Selva la Rocca must have depended
Ipotesi sul porto etrusco di Alsium tra recenti acquisizioni e prospettive future
No full textThe landing place of the Etruscan site of Alsium is not as well-known as the most important of Caere’s harbors, Pyrgi, and its supposed location has fluctuated between the promontory of Palo, where the Roman colonia maritima is located, and the site of the famous so-called “Villa of Pompey”, about 2 km further south. Nowadays the second hypothesis seems to be the most likely. Its geographical position, dominating the alluvial plain of the Tiber, its proximity to the mouth of the Cupino stream, the placement of important necropolises such as S. Paolo and Monteroni along the route from Caere to Alsium, as well as the discovery and rediscovery of a number of interesting contexts are just some of the main indications in favour of this “petite acropole”. However, there is still no archaeological proof of this theory and currently it is only possible to outline a few preliminary considerations about the role played by Alsium, from the Orientalizing period onwards, in contacts with Mediterranean trade routes and, through to the Cupino valley, with the territorial sections overlooking Bracciano Lake and the Tiber valley
Donna Teresa de' Rossi Caetani duchessa di Sermoneta, donna viril dell'archeologia nel primo Ottocento
No full textTra i personaggi che animarono la vita intellettuale di Roma nella prima metà del secolo XIX, Donna Teresa Caetani, nata de’ Rossi, rappresenta sicuramente un caso d’interesse sia per quanto riguarda le vicende dell’alta nobiltà romana, sia per l’archeologia, che proprio in quel periodo iniziava a muovere i suoi primi ed incerti passi verso una propria strutturazione come Altertumswissenschaft, come scienza dell’antichità
Una nuova tomba “del Tripode” da Zambra? Note archivistiche su un contesto perduto delle necropoli ceretane
No full textThis work mainly aims to give news of a context investigated in 1841 in the Zambra estate, near the Etruscan city of Caere, by Teresa Caetani, Duchess of Semoneta, the documentation of which has recently been found and analyzed. The main peculiarity of the funeral equipment discovered at the time is the presence of some bronze fragments that can probably be interpreted as the remains of a tripod of a particular rare and elitist category, the so-called «rod tripods». The article then discusses the possibility of identifying these fragments with some currently preserved in Copenhagen, to which the descriptions would appear to correspond and which find an exceptional comparison with another specimen found in Falerii. Although they are different from all other currently known tripods, they resemble each other to the point that it is possible to speak of «twin tripods» and the last part of the work focuses on the meaning to be attributed to the bond that is created between these two exceptional objects
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