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The excavations of the Temple of Diana at Nemi (Lake Nemi, central Italy) from 2009 to 2021 yielded pre-protohistoric lithic artifacts. This information, combined with available geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, enables a reconstruction of lake level changes as well as human socio-economic and cultural activities in the area from the...
The massive amount of rock-cut monuments along the slopes of the acropolis hill of Philippi in ancient Macedon has received scholarly attention since the first expeditions and following excavation and research campaigns conducted by the French School at Athens in the nineteenth century. The documentation of these peculiar monuments, comprising imag...
The 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 ar...
The paper examines the as-yet unpublished fictile votive offerings made of impasto rosso-bruno which emerged during the 2009-2021 excavations at the Sanctuary of Diana at Lake Nemi (Rome). Although these finds quantitatively represent a minority compared to the overall votive material, the use of this particular ceramic class, typical of Southern E...
The 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 ar...
The Latin colony of Fregellae was founded by Rome in 328 BC on the via Latina in southern Lazio. Located near the Liri and Sacco rivers and in the hinterland of the port at Minturno on the Tyrrhenian coast, the roadside settlement developed into a prosperous trading centre, with objects arriving from long-distance trade. Due to the struggle to exte...
The Mediterranean area has traditionally been characterised by a strong seismicity: from the V c. BC to the end of the XX c., almost 900 earthquakes are documented for the Italian peninsula alone (source CFTI5Med: http://storing.ingv.it/cfti/cfti5/#).
Paleoseismology and historical seismicity studies, with support from disciplines such as geology...
The Romans founded their Empire on a most efficient network of transport and the extensive exploitation of resources from the regions under their administration. Evidently, large quantities of timber also travelled along these roads, as wood was an essential everyday resource, required for anything from building to heating, and from shipbuilding to...
Lake Nemi, in a crater of volcanic origins, lies along the via Appia c. 30 km south of Rome in the region of the Alban Hills. The basin as a whole has a high density of archeological evidence, most noticeably the sanctuary of Diana on the NE and the imperial villa on the SW sides. Famously, two large ships belonging to Caligula were long preserved...
As a result of a survey campaign, in the municipal territory of Puebla de Don Fadrique has appeared a small Roman military settlement, interesting for its structural characteristics and for its chronology. This castellum is certainly destined to check the surrounding territory and the roads to the Southeastern coast. It could have been the result o...
