4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Tivoli, Hadrian's villa: The Plutonium project (Comune Di Tivoli, Provincia di Roma, Regione Lazio)
September 2020
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Journal article
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Papers of the British School at Rome
A colossal cult statue group from Dobër, Albania: Visual narratives of East and West in the countryside of Butrint
September 2020
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology
A group of three fragmentary marble statues of colossal scale came to light in 1913 on a low hill known as Dobër in the countryside of Butrint, Albania. A fourth statue fragment, a veiled female head dated stylistically to the late fourth or third century BCE, now in Ioannina, Greece, was said to have been found in the same area, but new archival research casts doubt on that assertion. In this study, we reassess the technical and iconographic features of these statues. We argue that the group from Dobër, which presumably stood inside a temple there, depicts the enthroned Mother of the Gods joined by two standing companions: Attis or a figure from the Trojan saga, such as Askanios, and a fragmentary and unidentifiable male figure. We propose that the group is a visual representation of the well-known literary links between the coast of Butrint and the land of Troy, and further, that it provides testimony for the privileged position that the region had with Rome during the periods of both the Macedonian Wars and the Augustan colonization. As these statues demonstrate, the area of Butrint was a crucial point of encounter between East and West and of cultural mediation for both Greeks and Romans.
Attis, hellenistic sculpture, Augustan Greece, Damophon the Messenian, greek religion, Aeneas, Butrint, Askanios, mother of the gods, Epirus
Region: Lazio; Province: Rome; Site: Tivoli
October 2019
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Journal article
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Papers of the British School at Rome
Reconstruction of a Segment of the UNESCO World Heritage Hadrian’s Villa Tunnel Network by Integrated GPR, Magnetic–Paleomagnetic, and Electric Resistivity Prospections
July 2019
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Journal article
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Remote Sensing
Hadrian’s Villa is an ancient Roman archaeological site built over an ignimbritic tuff and characterized by abundant iron oxides, strong remnant magnetization, and elevated magnetic susceptibility. These properties account for the high-amplitude magnetic anomalies observed in this site and were used as a primary tool to detect deep archaeological features consisting of air-filled and soil-filled cavities of the tuff. An integrated magnetic, paleomagnetic, radar, and electric resistivity survey was performed in the Plutonium-Inferi sector of Hadrian’s Villa to outline a segment of the underground system of tunnels that link different zones of the villa. A preliminary paleomagnetic analysis of the bedrock unit and a high-resolution topographic survey by aerial photogrammetry allowed us to perform a computer-assisted modelling of the observed magnetic anomalies, with respect to the archaeological sources. The intrinsic ambiguity of this procedure was reduced through the analysis of ground penetrating radar and electric resistivity profiles, while a comprehensive picture of the buried archaeological features was built by integration of the magnetization model with radar amplitude maps. The final subsurface model of the Plutonium-Inferi complex shows that the observed anomalies are mostly due to the presence of tunnels, skylights, and a system of ditches excavated in the tuff.
Sanctuaries and the Hellenistic polis: an architectural approach
March 2019
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Conference paper
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Studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday
Sanctuaries and the Hellenistic Polis:
March 2019
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Chapter
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Greek Art in Motion: Studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday
A cast, a bird and a queen (?)
January 2019
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Chapter
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Visual Histories of the Classical World: Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith
Hadrianopolis prima di hadrianopolis : nuovi dati dallo scavo delle terme
December 2018
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Conference paper
Antinous Boy Made God
November 2018
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Book
The exhibition and the book's narrative highlight the range and variety of Antinous' reception and shows how the fascination and reach of his image went well beyond antiquity into the modern world.
La ‘Lex Sacra von der Hallenstrasse’ e l’Asclepieio di Pergamo tra passato e presente
June 2018
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Chapter
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Miscellanea in onore di Maria Letizia Lazzarini
<p>La ‘Lex Sacra von der Hallenstrasse’ proveniente dall’Asklepieion di Pergamo è uno dei regolamenti sacri meglio noti e più citati del mondo antico. Di essa si preservano due esemplari, il primo, più completo, rinvenuto nel 1965, durante gli scavi della via colonnata monumentale che conduceva al propylon del santuario, il secondo costituito invece da frammenti noti dagli anni ’30, ma identificati solo all’atto della pubblicazione del monumento. Mentre il primo esemplare si presenta come una stele (0.63 x 0.40 x 0.13 m), dunque, originariamente collocata in posizione stante su un apposito supporto; il secondo, pur nella sua frammentarietà, appare piuttosto come una tabula con cornice modanata, sviluppata in senso orizzontale e dallo spessore tale (0.05 m) da dover originariamente essere affissa ad un muro o edificio. La pubblicazione del monumento, ad opera di Michael Wörrle, chiarisce in maniera esemplare le caratteristiche generali del testo e la sua collocazione cronologica. La datazione dei testi è collocata nel II secolo d.C. su base esclusivamente paleografica, in quanto le iscrizioni non recano alcun riferimento cronologico. Entrambi gli esemplari sono, però, ritenuti copie di età imperiale di un medesimo originale di età ellenistica, a causa della menzione, al loro interno, del pagamento di offerte in denaro in valute databili non oltre il III sec. a.C. .</p> <br/> <p>Il regolamento sacro prescrive il rituale sacrificale e di offerta da praticare prima di accedere all’incubazione presso il dormitorio del santuario e può essere riassunto per grandi linee come segue. Coloro che si accingono a consultare la divinità vengono invitati ad offrire un sacrificio preliminare incruento di focacce a nove buchi per Zeus Apotropaios, Zeus Meilichios, Artemide Prothyraia, un’Artemide di cui si è perso l’epiteto e Gea. Altre focacce a nove buchi vanno, poi, lasciate per Tyche, Mnemosine e Themis presso o dentro l’enkoimeterion. Per l’accesso a quest’ultimo – definito ‘piccolo’, possibilmente per differenziarlo da un’altro di dimensioni maggiori – vengono stabilite precise condizioni di purezza. All’atto della consultazione, poi, a seconda che si solleciti l’intervento del dio su una o più questioni, viene richiesto il sacrificio di uno o più maialini da latte (coscia destra e interiora da depositare sulla tavola di offerta) ed il pagamento, nel thesauros del dio, di tre oboli. Infine, dopo aver prescritto ulteriori, simili, sacrifici da parte di un particolare gruppo di therapeuontes (addetti al culto), la legge sacra stabilisce, a guarigione avvenuta, il pagamento nel thesauros di Asclepio di un’hekte focese per Asclepio ed una per Apollo . </p> <br/> <p>Questo contributo, senza entrare nel merito del rituale prescritto dalla legge sacra, si propone di spiegare il contesto di esposizione delle due iscrizioni di età romana, al fine di precisarne la relazione con l’Asklepieion pergameno di secondo e terzo secolo d.C. A questo scopo, verranno analizzati solo alcuni elementi del regolamento che sembrano in apparente contraddizione con la fase cronologica ed archeologica di età imperiale in cui si collocano.</p>
The Stele of Polybios
August 2017
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Chapter
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Writing Matters
Some thoughts on the cult of the Pantheon (‘all the gods’?) in the cities and sanctuaries of Roman Greece
July 2017
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Chapter
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Empire and Religion: Religious Change in Greek Cities under Roman Rule
The archaeology of the Asclepieum at Pergamon
March 2017
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Chapter
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In Praise of Asclepius. Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
La stele di Polibio: arte e politica nel Peloponneso del II secolo a.C.
December 2016
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Chapter
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Dromoi Studi sul mondo antico offerti a Emanuele Greco dagli allievidella Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene
Per Epirum. An alternative to the Adriatic. The territory of Hadrianopolis and the Drino valley in the Greek and Early Roman periods
May 2016
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Conference paper
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6e Colloque international sur l’Illyrie méridionale et l’Epire dans l’Antiquité
SBTMR
Damophon of Messene in the Ionian coast of Greece
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries Between Greece and Rome
This edited collection focuses on the archaeological material of this era and how it can elucidate the complex relationship between the various forces operating on, and changing the physical space of, sanctuaries.
Introduction: on sanctuaries and poleis
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries Between Greece and Rome
This edited collection focuses on the archaeological material of this era and how it can elucidate the complex relationship between the various forces operating on, and changing the physical space of, sanctuaries.
The making of a colonial Pantheon in the colonies of Roman Greece
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries Between Greece and Rome
This edited collection focuses on the archaeological material of this era and how it can elucidate the complex relationship between the various forces operating on, and changing the physical space of, sanctuaries.
Damophon of Messene in the Ionian coast of Greece
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries
Hellenistic Sanctuaries
February 2016
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Book
Introduction
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries
Introduction
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries
The making of a colonial Pantheon in the colonies of Caesar in Greece
February 2016
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Chapter
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Hellenistic Sanctuaries
Gods in Colour A Guide to the Exhibition
January 2015
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Book
Polychromy
Religion and Society in Early Roman Corinth: A Forgotten Coin Hoard and the Sanctuary of Asklepios
January 2014
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Journal article
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Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Religion and communication in the sanctuaries of Roman Greece
November 2013
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Chapter
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Religion as communication system: networks and rituals in the traditional Greek sanctuaries of the Roman period
The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Plaster Casts of Greek and Roman Sculpture
January 2013
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Book
The collection has recently been re-displayed and integrated.
Art
Asclepius
April 2012
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Journal article
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The Classical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Geografia storica della valle del Drino
January 2012
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Chapter
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Hadrianopolis II risultati delle indagini archeologiche 2005-2010
Social Science
(M.) Scott Delphi and Olympia. The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 356, illus. £55. 9780521191265.
November 2011
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Journal article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Ritual spaces and performances in the Asklepieia of Roman Greece
January 2010
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Journal article
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Annual of the British School at Athens
This paper attempts to investigate the existence of performative rituals - such as processions, songs, dances, dramatic enactments of divine myths and genealogies - in sanctuaries of Asklepios during the Roman Imperial period in Greece. Because of their long life and their well-documented ritual practice, the sanctuaries of Athens, Epidauros, and Messene have been selected as case studies. Archaeological, literary, and epigraphical sources are used to identify the nature of the ritual performed, and to assign to them a topographical space within the sacred precinct. The period under consideration mostly coincides with the reign of the Antonine emperors, when the relatively peaceful environment allowed for an artistic revival, and cultural phenomena such as the Second Sophistic promoted the reappropriation of ancient Greek tradition and a renewed continuity with it, despite the historical discontinuity. Wealthy patrons belonging to the educated elite and holding the highest offices within the imperial bureaucracy were often responsible for the refoundation of sacred buildings, and of long-forgotten religious festivals. In this context, the promotion of performative spaces and rituals in the sanctuaries of Asklepios is interpreted as a product of the cultural and social environment of the second and early third centuries in Greece.
Asclepiea
April 2009
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Journal article
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The Classical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
I santuari di Asclepio in Grecia
January 2007
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Book
Architecture
Il santuario di Asclepio a Lebena
January 2007
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Book
Aesculapius (Greek deity)
The sanctuary of Asclepius
January 2007
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Chapter
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Roman Butrint An Assessment
The urban fabric evolved, sometimes faltered, but was essentially sustained until the later 6th century A.D. This present volume is an assessment of the Roman archaeology, a compilation of studies and field reports that focuses upon the ...
History
Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2002-2003)
January 2003
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Journal article
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Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
L’archéologie des cultes guérisseurs. Quelques observations
January 2002
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Journal article
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Kernos
5004 Religious Studies, 5005 Theology, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
Asklepieion sanctuary
Journal article
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies