Los ímbrices de mármol del Traianeum de Italica

The study of the material that we present in this article is part of the new research currently in progress on the Traianeum of Italica (Santiponce, Seville, Spain). The material under study corresponds to an assemblage of marble roof imbrices, the characteristics of which provide a new understanding of the build- ing, of its aesthetics and its statics. This, in turn, has led us to reflect on the nature of this architectural complex and, particularly, on its foundations, considering the enormous weight of the roof that we now know covered the Traianeum of Italica.

Lorsque les murailles sont attaquées... par l’érosion. Quelques indices archéologiques sur les solutions apportées durant l’antiquité à Cordoue

Erosion was a real problem for damage edifice in long term, and Roman people knew this fact, as Vitruve and Frontin ilustrated. There is not much investigation about erosion, due to the difficulties concerning the identification of the relationship between the erosion process and reparation acts during an emergency archaeological excavation. However, Cordoba presents particular interest within the investigation of its City Wall during the Antiquity. Certain aspects have not been considered yet by investigation, reason by which Cordoba offers some interesting clues to understand how Roman citizens protected their urbanism against erosion.

L'area forense di Forum Sempronii: nuovi dati architettonici e urbanistici alla luce degli scavi 2013-2017

Il presente contributo fornisce una preliminare analisi urbanistica e architettonica dell'area forense e delle relative strutture portate alla luce durante le campagne di scavo 2013-2017, presso il municipium di Forum Sempronii. Allo stato attuale sono stati identi cati, a livello di fondazione, la piazza del foro e i portici che la delimitavano; sul lato Nord dello spazio forense sono stati identi cati tre templi, dei quali il Tempio A interamente scavato. Al di fuori del limite orientale del forum e in posizione prospiciente alla via Flaminia, è stato rinvenuto, in buono stato di conservazione, una terza struttura con probabile funzione cultuale e amministrativa e identi cata come l'Augusteum di Forum Sempronii. Dai dati nora emersi, sembrerebbe possibile ipotizzare la pertinenza di tutte le strutture a una imponente riforma urbanistica e architettonica del municipium avvenuta in epoca augustea.

La domus di Europa a Forum Sempronii

The Domus of Europa has been under excavation since 2004. This particular building seems more like a labyrinth than like a Roman private house at first glance, due to its complex plan. The typical Roman domus is characterized by an axial and symmetrical disposition of the rooms, which seems to be completely missing in the Domus of Europa. This labyrinth like plan is due to the fact that this house is the result of the union of two different buildings, named respectively as “Building A” and “Building B”. In the following pages, the life phase of these two buildings will be outlined into their junction during 150-200 A.D. until the destruction of the Domus of Europa due to fire, which has been agreed to have happened during the IV century A.D. After this tragic event, it is argued here that during the V Century A.D. a new building rose on top of the old one (referred to as “Building C”).

Costruire ingegnosamente riutilizzando materiali poveri. L’impiego di conchiglie a fini edilizi ad Aquileia tra età repubblicana e tarda antichità.

In 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.

Arquitectura comercial de la ciudad de Roma. Una aproximación a la definición de las avenidas de carácter suntuario: de la vía Sacra a la Quinta Avenida

The present work aims, firstly, to analyze the changes in the commercial topography of the city of Rome in classical times and second to discuss surroundings of the emergence of new avenues of luxury character. The Roman expansion by the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the republican period allowed to reaffirm Rome over the rest of the cities. War booties, new colonized territories, and a more globalized economy fostered the interests of an increasingly rich section of the population. Traditional elites and newcomers competed for the most unique and unique products of the known world. With the change of era, the craftsman specialized in the elaboration and subsequent sale of luxury products in Rome was acquiring the control of the premises closest to the political-administrative center of the Urbs. Thus, to the important historical value of the area was added a concentration of diverse specialized trades vertebrates by the sacra via, varying the commercial character of the urban center, transforming itself from an agricultural commerce to a luxurious one. In order to know what the interests of the urban elites of the ss. I-III A.D. I studied the different commercial sectors highlighted in the epigraphy of the characters involved in the luxury trade in Rome. In a second section, I compared this information with the current one to verify if it is possible to determine a pattern of similarity, first, in the taste for the sumptuary and second, in knowing what type of businesses turn out to be the most notorious in sumptuous avenues. To do, I examined the five most important commercial avenues of the years 2015/16 according to the ranking prepared by the real estate consultants Cushman and Wakefield in the publication Main Streets Across The World.

Venustius est reticulatum. L’evoluzione dell’opera reticolata a Cuma

Lo studio di una tecnica costruttiva peculiare del mondo romano, quale l’ope- ra reticolata, e l’individuazione di una sua linea evolutiva portano nuove informa- zioni sulle architetture realizzate con questo tipo di tessitura muraria. Un’analisi metrica e dimensionale, ancorata a contesti datati, permette di incrementare i dati a livello cronologico, che poi possono essere affinati con le altre datazioni desunte dallo studio archeologico di un sito. L’applicazione di questo metodo scientifico, basato sull’analisi autoptica delle murature, ha portato ad individuare una tenden- za di sviluppo dell’opera reticolata, per il centro di Cuma.