Chronique des activités archéologiques de l'Ecole française de Rome

Three interim reports of last summer campaigns have been published on-line about:
The kilns outside Porta Ercolano (Via dei Sepolcri, NE, 28-30), by L. Cavassa, B. Lemaire, G. Chapelin and A. Lacombe.
Stone craftsmanship all around Pompeii, by G. Vincent, G. Chapelin, M. Covolan, É. Grondin and N. Leys.
The Villa of Diomedes, by H. Dessales, J. Ponce et alii.

Kilns with raw clay vases outside Porta Ercolano

Raw clay vases were first found in 2012 during the excavation lead by L. Cavassa (Centre Jean-Bérard/Centre Camille-Jullian, CNRS) outside Porta Ercolano. New fragments were found in the second workshop in 2014, which led to a mention in the new section of the Soprintendenza site, Scavi e ricerche: "La bottega del vasaio sulla Via dei Sepolcri".
A more detailed version is available on the CNRS/INSHS site.

2012 interim report mentioning the raw clay vases was published here, 2013 interim report there. The 2014 interim report is forthcoming there.

Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, vol. XXIII, 2012

Just out (or so...), the new volume (23, 2012) of the Rivista di Studi Pompeiani.

ISBN: 978-88-913-0493-3 Rilegatura: Brossura Pagine: 240, 300 ill. B/N
Formato: 22,5 x 28,5 cm
Prezzo: 250,00 €

 More info here or here.

De Carolis, E., F. Esposito, C. Falcucci, D. Ferrara (2012) : “Riflessioni sul quadro della Venere in Conchiglia di Pompei: dal mito al lavoro dei pictores”, RSP, 23, 7‑24.

Ciarallo, A.M. (2012) : “Gli elementi vegetali raffigurati negli affreschi della Casa della Venere in Conchiglia”, RSP, 23, 25‑27.

Tammisto, A. (2012) : “Gli uccelli nelle pitture di giardino della Casa della Venere in Conchiglia”, RSP, 23, 29‑38.

Gallo, A. (2012) : “Il santuario cantonale della Regio IX di Pompei (IX 1, 29). La decodificazione dei simboli”, RSP, 23, 39‑59.

Caso, L. (2012) : “L’Artemis nella decorazione da Pompei, VI Insula Occidentalis, 10”, RSP, 23, 61‑69.

Rauws, J.E. (2012) : “Decorations on the restored Second Style Wall painting of Oplontis Room 23 north”, RSP, 23, 71‑78.  

Napolitano, M.C. (2012) : “La Villa cd. « Secondo Complesso » di Stabiae”, RSP, 23, 79‑88.  

Nappo, S.C. (2012) : “L’ edificio di Murecine a Pompei: un esempio di architettura ricettiva alla foce del Sarno”, RSP, 23, 89‑101.

Morisco, M. (2012) : “Gli Inventari del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli”, RSP, 23, 103‑107.

Castillo, E. (2012) : “El reciclaje de los materiales constructivos y la utilizacìon de los escombros en la Casa de la Diana Arcaizante”, RSP, 23, 112‑125.

Pastore, U. (2012) : “Studio e riproduzione a calco degli scheletri dell’antica marina di Ercolano”, RSP, 23, 137‑139.

De Carolis, E., A.M. Ciarallo, M.R. Senatore (2012) : “Nuovi saggi archeologici eseguiti a Pompei. Rinvenimento di resti di viti e di un palo di sostegno al di sotto dei depositi dell’ eruzione del 79 d.C.”, RSP, 23, 140‑142.

Camardo, D., M. Notomista (2012) : “Recenti scoperte archeologiche ad Ercolano”, RSP, 23, 143‑155.

De Simone, G.F., A. De Luca (2012) : “Dati archeozoologici da Pollena Trocchia e alcune considerazioni sull’ alimentazione nella Campania tardo antica”, RSP, 23, 159‑162.

Albore Livadie, C., C. Cicirelli, U. Heussner, P. Kastenmeier, M.T. Pappalardo (2012) : “Le analisi dendrocronologiche a Poggiomarino nel 2011-2012”, RSP, 23, 164‑168.

Cascella, S., G. Vecchio (2012) : “Nota preliminare sulla scoperta della villa rustica di C. Ollius Ampliatus: suburbio sud-orientale di Neapolis (Ponticelli)”, RSP, 23, 169‑179.

Articles: "Archéologie et religion : le sanctuaire dionysiaque de S. Abbondio à Pompéi"

Just out, 5 articles about the 2008 excavations in Sant'Abbondio temple, in MEFRA 125, 1, 2013

Archéologie et religion : le sanctuaire dionysiaque de S. Abbondio à Pompéi

William Van Andringa, Introduction

Thomas Creissen et William Van Andringa, De l’analyse stratigraphique au culte de Loufir/Liber

Jordi Principal, Reflexiones cronológicas sobre las fases constructivas del santuario de S. Abbondio

Stéphanie Wyler, Dionysos/Loufir/Liber et sa parèdre

Timo Sironen, Documentazione epigrafica osca del santuario suburbano delle divinità dionisiache a S. Abbondio [Texte intégral]

Véronique Zech-Matterne et Tarek Oueslati, Déchets erratiques et vestiges rituels

William Van Andringa, Bibliographie générale du dossier « Archéologie et religion : le sanctuaire dionysiaque de S. Abbondio à Pompéi »

Chronique des activités archéologiques de l'Ecole française de Rome

Two new interim reports of last summer campaigns have been published on-line about:

• The temple of Fortuna Augusta by W. Van Andringa.
• Bakeries (V 3, 8 ; VI 3, 3.27-28 ; VI 11, 9‑10 ; VI 14, 28-32 ; VI 14, 33-34 ; IX 12, 6.8) and mills epigraphy, by N. Monteix, S. Zanella, S. Aho, R. Macario and E. Proudfoot.

Chronique des activités archéologiques de l'Ecole française de Rome

Two interim reports of last summer campaigns have been published on-line about:

• The kiln out  of Porta Ercolano in Pompeii (Via dei Sepolcri, NE, 29), by L. Cavassa, B. Lemaire, J.-M. Piffeteau.
• A new project on domestic paintings in Herculaneum, by A. Dardenay and H. Eristov.

More to follow within a few days...

Chronique des activités archéologiques de l'Ecole française de Rome

The Chronique des fouilles, which was formerly included in the MEFRA is now on line.

Just issued, 2011 campaigns interim reports about :

• Perfume workshops in Via degli Augustali
• Bakeries
• Temple of Fortuna Augusta

Fasti Online interim reports: Pistrina: les boulangeries de l'Italie romaine

Two new interim reports from the Pistrina: les boulangeries de l'Italie romaine project are available on Fasti Online:

Panificio I 12, 1-2

Panificio VII 1, 25.46-47

Fasti Online: Casa del Granduca Michele (VI 5,5 - 2011)

Excavation report of the eighth campaign in the Casa del Granduca Michele.

Tale indagine si pone a conclusione di una ricerca iniziata nel 2003 che ha permesso di documentare le fasi di vita più antiche di un’abitazione risalente agli ultimi decenni del III sec. a.C. Grazie a otto campagne di scavo, a venti saggi eseguiti all’interno della domus e ad altri cinque effettuati sulle strade che la fiancheggiano, è stato possibile ricostruire la storia edilizia di quest’abitazione. Di particolare interesse, risulta la ricostruzione pressoché totale dell’organizzazione planimetrica e della decorazione della sua fase più antica.
More here.

Fasti article: The 2010 Season of the Pompeii Quadriporticus Project: The Western Side

Just out on FastiOnline:

Eric E. Poehler , Steven J.R. Ellis. 2011. The 2010 Season of the Pompeii Quadriporticus Project: The Western Side. FOLD&R: 218. 

The Pompeii Quadriporticus Project (PQP) is a new archaeological and architectural research project that is designed to conduct the definitive study of one of the largest and most important monumental buildings in the World Heritage site of Pompeii, Italy. Combining cutting edge scanning technologies with an exhaustive examination of the physical fabric of the poorly-understood Quadriporticus, and incorporating the results from the excavated remains of its easternmost borders (Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia), the PQP is putting this long ignored monument back into its archictural and urban contexts.

Fasti article: CASA DEL GRANDUCA MICHELE, REGIO VI.5.5

Also just out in the Fasti Online:

CASA DEL GRANDUCA MICHELE, REGIO VI.5.5
During October 2010 new excavations were undertaken in the House of Grand Duke Michele which produced new data regarding the structure’s building history and private architecture in Pompeii in general. A trench dug between the ala and the atrium revealed elements useful for the reconstruction of the building and decoration of the Tuscan atrium and the rooms surrounding it in the Samnite period. Part of the ala was exposed, decorated with a tessellated opus signinum floor and I Style paintings datable to the mid 2nd century B.C. A trench was opened in the peristyle to continue that begun in 2009. This revealed an earlier courtyard with a colonnade, datable to the 2nd century B.C., surrounded by rooms on at least three sides and connected to a cistern. The courtyard, paved in the centre and without a viridarium, as is the norm at Pompeii, constitutes one of the earliest examples of this type within a mid-level house. From the excavations of 2004-2006 it is known that, as well as two residential structures, a small bath structure faced onto the courtyard on the north side. This was constituted by a lavatio, probably with a long pool and a sudatio. This replaced an earlier bath structure with a terracotta hipbath, found in secondary deposition by the well in the courtyard, of a type known from Hellenistic and Roman contexts.
In the service area 10, situated in correspondence with posticum 21, the layer of ash from the eruption was removed, which had not been completely eliminated during the Bourbon excavations. This space was characterised by the presence of a latrine under the stairs and the entrance to a cellar, created inside an ancient cistern.
On the Vico della Fullonica, which skirts the house to the east, a trench was opened immediately south of theposticum, in correspondence with a door leading into complex VI,5,7, which was blocked in the final phases of the town’s life. The sequence of occupation levels in this sector of the road was reconstructed for a period between the 1st century B.C. and the eruption.
Author: Dora D’Auria 

Citation: Dora D’Auria. 2011.

Fasti article: ELEA - VELIA, CODICE CATASTALE FOGLIO 9, PARTICELLA 13

Just published in the Fasti Online:

ELEA - VELIA, CODICE CATASTALE FOGLIO 9, PARTICELLA 13
As in previous years the Austrian Mission worked on the sacred areas situated on the ridge at Velia. The cleaning and recording of sacred area 3, the so-called open-air sanctuary, was undertaken in order to better define its layout and phases. This sacred area, situated between towers A8 and A7, represents one of the smallest sanctuaries on the ridge. Its very poor state of preservation makes its interpretation difficult.
The sanctuary measures 17.5 × 12.8 m, was delimited to the north by the fortified walls, the so-called stretch A, and extended over two levels. The upper part comprised an open space (feature 2) with a paving of Velian brick, of which only a very few patches were preserved. The south-western side was occupied by a small room (room 1, 6.8 × 4.2 m), probably opening onto the outer area. The room probably had a roof made of tiles imported from the Gulf of Naples, found scattered across the sanctuary area. Given the sparse remains, it is uncertain as to whether this can be interpreted as a sacred building, however its typology certainly reflects one of the so-calledoikoi. In the open space itself there were two bases incorporated into a niche in the curtain wall, which is of interest due to their strange collocation. There was no evidence of an altar, whose position can be assumed to have been beside the bases according to the model seen in sanctuary no. 7. The courtyard opened towards the north-east with a propylon, constituted by two lateral niches and a threshold, formed by two large sandstone blocks. The ritual space of the scared area was completed by a votive column on a quadrangular base in the area in front of the propylon.
On the lower level there was another large space (feature 3). The situation was characterised by a substantial difference in height on the slope of almost one metre. This necessitated the creation of the south-eastern perimeter through the construction of a curtain wall 0.75 m wide. Given the large dimensions of this space, but also the construction technique of the wall separating feature 3 from the open area, which does not suggest that it was a supporting wall, it is proposed that feature 3 was a terrace rather than an enclosed room.
The lack of diagnostic finds makes it difficult to establish the chronology of this sacred area. However, both the sanctuary typology and the use of tiles from the Gulf of Naples suggest a date of the 3rd century B.C. or later.
In 2008 a small naiskos in local sandstone, in a collapsed position, was found to the south of sacred area no. 3. This year a fragment from another relief of the same type was discovered, built into a recent wall, south of the sanctuary. This was the lower part of a naiskos, smaller than that found in 2008. Despite its poor state of preservation this discovery corroborates the hypothesis that already in the archaic period the entire zone was dedicated to the cult of a female divinity, traditionally identified as Cybele.
Summary Author: Verena Gassner - Università di Vienna, Istituto di Archeologia Classica
Citation: Verena Gassner. 2011.