Annual Report 2007-8 - The British School at Rome

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E V E N T SPieter Broucke (Middlebury College): The five PantheonsMaureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield): Memoria and Damnatio Memoriae:preserving and erasing identities in Roman funerary commemorationJohn Clarke (Texas): Viewer-based models for reading ImperialmonumentsLynne Lancaster (Ohio): Technological innovation in Imperial Rome:what can ancient concrete tell us about Roman society?Paul Johnson (BSR; Southampton): Changing relationships with thecity in late antiquityFabio Barry (St Andrews): The Mouth of Truth and the Forum BoariumMichele Salzman (California): Apocalypse Then? Jerome and the fallof Rome in 410Susan Russell (BSR): Pirro Ligorio as architect and archaeologistARTS AND ARCHITECTURE EVENTSPresentation of Jacopo Benci. Faraway and LuminousPress launch of 20Eventi — Arte contemporanea in SabinaFine Arts Awardees’ ExhibitionsDecember 2007: Party at the American Academy; Spartacus Chetwynd,Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux, Harriet Harriss, AislingHedgecock, Leslie Matthews, Lindsay Seers, Prisca Thielmann,John Walter. Curated by Jacopo BenciMarch 2008: The Director’s Apartment; Jonathan Allen, Gordon Burn,Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux, Nadia Hebson, AislingHedgecock, Jennifer Marshall, Prisca Thielmann, John Walter.Curated by Jacopo BenciJune 2008: Tutti Frutti; James and Eleanor Avery, Cian Donnelly,Anthony Faroux, Aisling Hedgecock, Catrin Huber, Marta Marcé,Prisca Thielmann, John Walter. Curated by Jacopo BenciArchitecture Programme‘SPACES FOR ART’Amanda Levete (Future Systems): Lecture and exhibition, Workingwith artistsDavid Adjaye (Adjaye Architects): Lecture, Art and architecture (withaccompanying exhibition at Casa dell’Architettura)‘LONDON–ROME: WORK IN PROCESS’Ma0/emmeazero: Lecture and exhibition, BorderlinesContemporary Arts ProgrammeExhibition: The Secret Public: the Last Days of the British Underground1978–1988. A Video Library. Curated by Stefan Kalmàr, MichaelBracewell and Ian WhiteScreenings and talks: Cosey Fanni Tutti, in conversation with DanielaCascella (including a video about Throbbing Gristle)Scratch VideoPanel discussion of ‘Underground culture in Italy in the 80s’Book presentation: Ian Kiaer, in conversation with Cristiana PerrellaExhibition: Chris Evans. As Simple As Your Life Used To Be. Curatedby Cristiana PerrellaTracks series: Little Annie with Paul Wallfisch. Curated by DanielaCascellaLecture/performance: Martin Creed, WordsBook presentation: Film d’artista, by Maria Rosa SossaiMUSIC EVENTSPerformance: Fantasies for Piano, by Stefan Cassomenos (BSR;Melbourne)Performance: Enoch Arden, by Graham Roos and James KeayLIBRARY EVENTSInscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica. Two-day workshop organised incollaboration with Charlotte Roueché (KCL) and Joyce ReynoldsCare and identification of non-silver photographic printing processes. Three-day‘History of Photography’ workshop organised in collaborationwith Lorenzo Scaramella and Giulia Cucinella BriantExhibitions in the series ‘Immagini e memoria’.I giganti dell’acqua: acquedotti romani del Lazio nelle fotografie di ThomasAshby (1892–1925). Curated by BSR Library and Archive staffItinerari abruzzesi: archeologia, arte e folklore nelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby(1901–1923). Curated by BSR Library and Archive staffUK EVENTSRoman Reflections: Views from the BSR, 2006–7Alexandria in Pompeii: reflections on cameo glass and wallpaintingsSusan Walker, Balsdon Fellow 2006–7Do mice think in Italian?Edwina Ashton, Wingate Rome Scholar 2006–7Presentation of Jacopo Benci. Faraway and Luminous, with Jacopo Benciin conversation with Anthony Downey and Eric ParryAndrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Herculaneum: new light in the dark(including a viewing of scenes from the film of Marcellino deBaggis, Herculaneum: Diaries of Light and Dark)20
A RCHAEOLOGYThis year saw the development of our flagship researchprogramme — the Roman Ports Project — with a firstseason of excavation at Portus, as well as a geophysicsprogramme that is extending its horizons beyond Italy andinvolvement in several other collaborative projects.THE ROMAN PORTS PROJECTThis project, directed by Simon Keay, aims to enhance ourunderstanding of Portus, the port of Imperial Rome, throughexcavation, survey and the analysis of finds, and to exploreits relationship to other ports across the Mediterranean.Excavations and Survey at PortusThe first main area of activity focused upon excavation andsurvey at Portus — the Portus Project — funded by the Artsand Humanities Research Council and the Soprintendenzaper i Beni Archeologici di Ostia. Activities undertaken in thecourse of 2007–8 can be broken down into three areas.The ExcavationThe first season took place over five weeks duringSeptember and early October 2007, was directed by SimonKeay and Graeme Earl (Southampton), assisted by Dott.ssaLidia Paroli (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici diOstia), and involved participants from the universities ofSouthampton, Cambridge, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Aix-en-Provence, Tarragona and Seville. It built upon two earlierseasons of topographic work (March 2007) and resistancetomography (June 2007). The excavations uncovered a large(250m 2 ) open area at the eastern edge of the PalazzoImperiale, a key building at the centre of the port, revealinga large rectangular dock or canal that was probably ofClaudian date, defined by a spectacular series of moles onthe south side of the main Claudian basin of the port. Thiswas filled with sand in the course of the first and secondcenturies AD, and its central stretch subsequently covered bya large circular building in the Severan period. The wholearea was extensively replanned in the later fifth and sixthcenturies AD. After the completion of the excavation at theend of the first week of October, there was a formal visit tothe site by HRH Princess Alexandra, led by Simon Keay,accompanied by the British Ambassador, the Deputy-Minister for the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,the Mayor of Fiumicino, the Secretary to the Director of theRegione Lazio, the Soprintendente per i Beni Archeologicidi Ostia ad interim and other guests. This was followed by avisit to the part of Portus that lies within the property ofDuke Ascanio Sforza Cesarini, followed by a reception atthe Villa Torlonia.Additional GeophysicsThese excavations were complemented by continuedAHRC-funded geophysical survey within the port complex.The most important element was a two-week season by ajoint BSR/Archaeological Prospection Services ofSouthampton (APSS) team ( June 2008). It used groundpenetrating radar, high definition resistance, magnetometryand topographic survey techniques to understand better theimmediate environs of the excavation and the PalazzoImperiale. The team also undertook the survey of a sixhectare area within the basin of the Claudian harbour(November 2007), funded by Duke Sforza Cesarini, whichrevealed the alignment of buildings, possibly dating to thelate antique period, by which time it would have silted up.The Portus Hinterland SurveyThis forms a key element in our strategy to understandbetter the broader landscape in which Portus is situated. Afirst month-long season of magnetometer survey inFebruary covered circa eighteen hectares of the northeastquadrant of the Isola Sacra, an island that lies betweenPortus and Ostia to the south. This element of the PortusProject was directed by Professor Martin Millett(Cambridge), Kris Strutt (APSS) and Paola Germona(Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia). Itfocused upon the northeastern part of the Isola Sacra,21
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