Books available on-line: Publications du Centre Jean Bérard

Depuis plus de quarante ans, Les Publications du Centre Jean Bérard ont pour vocation de faire paraître des ouvrages scientifiques d’archéologie de l’Italie du Sud. Dans ses différentes collections, elles proposent essais, thèses, comptes rendus de fouilles, actes de colloques et de séminaires, bibliographie topographique. Les Publications se sont également dotées d'une collection de récits de voyageurs français du « Grand Tour » et d’études sur des peintres de cette époque.

Some of the books published by the Centre Jean-Bérard are now available on-line. Beyond some volumes from the Collection du Centre Jean-Bérard, three volumes from the Mémoires et documents sur Rome et l’Italie méridionale series, and others on Magna Grecia.

Available with contents on Pompeii and/or Herculaneum: 

Grell, C. (1982). Herculanum et Pompéi dans les récits des voyageurs français du xviii^e siècle (Mémoires et documents sur Rome et l’Italie méridionale II). Naples.

Le ravitaillement en blé de Rome (1994). Le ravitaillement en blé de Rome et des centres urbains des débuts de la République jusqu’au Haut Empire (Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 11). Naples.

Borgard, P., Brun, J.-P., and Picon, M. (eds.) (2005). L’alun de Méditerranée (Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 23). Naples.

Brun, J.-P. and Fiches, J.-L. (eds.) (2007). Énergie hydraulique et machines élévatrices d’eau dans l’Antiquité (Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 27). Naples.

Cullin-Mingaud, M. (2010). La vannerie dans l’Antiquité romaine: les ateliers de vanniers et les vanneries de Pompéi, Herculanum et Oplontis (Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 35). Naples.

Only problem linked with OpenEdition: citation will become a mess, OE never inserts original pagination in electronic versions.

On-line companion: The Insula of the Menander

It is the first time I see this site, said to be 'currently developed' since August 2008.
As a database, it is an improved version of the on-line companion to P.M. Allison's book, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 42), hence should be as useful but less difficult to get in at the beginning.
As a reminder, reviews of the book were published in these journals:
AJA 112 (2008), ClR 58 (2008), Gymnasium 115 (2008), BABesch 83 (2008), Antiquity 82 (2008), RA 49 (2009).

Available on-line: Herculaneum Archaeology

The Newsletters of the Friends of Herculaneum Society are available on-line:

Papers from the First Naples Conference (30 June–2 July 2006), the first supplement to Herculaneum Archaeology, includes contributions by Francesca Longo Auricchio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), “The International Centre for the Study of the Herculaneum Papyri (CISPE)”, Antonio De Simone (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa - Napoli), “Herculaneum and the Villa of the Papyri: Studies, Excavation, and Prospects”, and Carlo Knight, “Sir William Hamilton’s Neapolitan houses”, on an early enthusiast for the eighteenth-century discoveries at Herculaneum.

Earlier issues of Herculaneum Archaeology remain available:

Issue 1 (Summer 2004) includes an introduction to the Society and its aims (Robert Fowler and Dirk Obbink), “To Dig or not to Dig?” (Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Robert Fowler), “Out of the Ashes” (Roger Macfarlane, on digitally imaging the Herculaneum Papyri), and a review of Shelley Hales, The Roman House and Social Identity (Anna Collar).

Issue 2 (Winter 2005) includes an introduction to the Society’s Archive, “Deconstructing Herculaneum” (James Andrews on the excavation and reconstruction of the site), “Brought to Light” (new images from Herculaneum and Monte Soma), “News from the Herculaneum Papyri” (Richard Janko), “Il Porcino - Our Mascot?” (Dirk Obbink), and a review of L. Richardson, Jr., A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae (Matthew Bladen).

Issue 3 (Summer 2005) includes an updated account of the Herculaneum Archive (Dirk Obbink), “Mapping the Villa of the Papyri” (Mantha Zarmakoupi), “The Virtues of Virtual Unrolling” (Brent Seales), “Herculaneum in the History of Art Criticism” (James I. Porter), and a review of Carol C. Mattusch, The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (Matthew Bladen).

Issue 4 (Winter 2006) includes “Herculaneum through History”, a review of J. Mühlenbrock and D. Richter (edd.), Verschüttet von Vesuv: die letzten Stunden von Herculaneum (Roger T. Macfarlane), “New Light on the ‘Dark Side’ of Vesuvius” (Girolamo F. De Simone and Satoshi Matsuyama), and “Exploring an Ancient Library”, a review of David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (David Armstrong).

Issue 5 (Summer 2006) includes “Volcanism at Vesuvius” (Chris Hawkesworth and James Small), photographs taken at the Society’s first Naples conference (30 June–2 July 2006), “From the Archive” (verses on Herculaneum by Giacomo Leopardi with a parallel translation by David Armstrong), and “The Library of Philodemus”, a review of Daniel Delattre, La Villa des Papyrus et les rouleaux d’Herculanum: La Bibliothèque de Philodème (W.B. Henry).

Issue 6 (Winter 2006) includes a report on the Society's activities, "The First Naples conference 28 June - 2 July 2006" by Bob Fowler, "Re-examining the Casa del mosaico di Nettuno e Anfitrite at Herculaneum" by James Andrews and latest news frrom Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Issue 7 (Summer 2007) includes a report on the Getty Villa by Roger Macfarlane, "Virtual Villa: digitally reconstructing the Villa of the Papyri" by Mantha Zarmakoupi, "What's in a name?", by Holger Essler, and "Lucretius and Roman Epicureanism", by Beate Beer.

Issue 8 (Winter 2007) includes "Activities of the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Erconalesi" by Francesca Longo Auricchio, an account of the international Villa of the Papyri Conference by Mantha Zarmakoupi, and an article on "Tracing the Water Supply at Herculaneum" by Society bursar Duncan Keenan-Jones.

Issue 9 (Summer 2008) includes a report of the Second Naples Congress, an article on "Roman Libraries and the Villa of the Papyri" by Matthew Nicholls, and a report by Society bursar Ciro Montella on "Aspects and Problems of Insula II at Herculaneum". 

Issue 10 (Winter 2008) offers a translation of "An Eighteenth-Century Traveler's Account" by Nigel Wilson, an interim report on "Computer Modelling in Herculaneum" by Peter Spital, and the winning entry in the Schools Competition.

Issue 11 (Summer 2009) contains news and a full report of the Paris meeting by Richard Janko.

Issue 12 (Summer 2010) contains news, a full report of the Third Herculaneum Conference by Robert Fowler, an article by Christopher Smith, Director of the British School at Rome, and a report on the travelling exhibition "Pompeii and the Roman Villa" by Carol Mattusch.

Resources: BSR Archive

The BSR Archive just posted a message on Blogging Pompeii's Facebook page. Here it is, for those of you who don't follow us on Facebook:

'Thousands of photographs, maps and rare prints from the BSR collections are available on line. All low resolution images may be freely used for educational and scholarly purposes. Visit our website www.bsrdigitalcollections.it'

Online publication of the Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum

This via AWOL (Ancient World Online):

Online publication of the Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum (www.thvproject.it)

The International Centre for the Study of the Herculaneum Papyri "Marcello Gigante" and the Chair of Classical Philology I of the University of Würzburg announce the online publication of the Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum (www.thvproject.it), edited by Gianluca Del Mastro. The Thesaurus is a free search engine of the texts of the Herculaneum Papyri collection; currently there are 15 texts available for consultation, but many others are in preparation and will be included soon. users who wish to contribute new readings of the texts already available in the database, should request a password from info@cispe.org.

ll Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi “Marcello Gigante” e la Cattedra di Filologia Classica I dell’Università di Würzburg annunciano la pubblicazione on line del Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum (www. thvproject.it), curato da Gianluca Del Mastro, attraverso il quale è possibile effettuare ricerche sui testi contenuti nei Papiri Ercolanesi. Attualmente è consultabile il testo di circa 15 papiri e molti altri saranno presto inseriti. Tutti gli utenti che desiderano ottenere una password per inserire nuove letture ai testi già consultabili, possono richiederla all’indirizzo info@cispe. org.

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrstuhl für Klassische Philologie I der Universität Würzburg hat das Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi den Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum (THV) erstellt (www.thvproject.it). Der Plan dafür stammt von Gianluca Del Mastro. Der Thesaurus stellt eine Reihe von Suchmöglichkeiten über den Texten der herkulanischen Papyri zur Verfügung. Im Moment stehen rund 15 Papyri zur Verfügung; die Eingabe der Texte von Philodems Rhetorik und weiterer kleinerer Texte ist in Arbeit. Mittels eines Passwortes können registrierte Benutzer direkt eigene Neulesungen und Ergänzungsvorschläge eintragen. Registrierung und Passwort können unter der Adresse info@cispe.org beantragt werden.

NetVibes page for Pompeii and Herculaneum

Check out John Larkin's new NetVibes page of resources on Pompeii and Herculaneum. This is an excellent collection of links and images designed for teachers - but useful to us all. He describes the site here.

Web resources: Sisyphos

My thanks to Celia Mustermann for this link to Sisyphos - the University of Heidelberg's web resources on Pompeii (and elsewhere). This is a great collection of useful links!

Diana Kleiner lectures on-line

I've just come across a whole series of lectures on Roman architecture on academicearth.org, given earlier this year by Diana Kleiner of Yale. There are 23 lectures in total on a wide range of topics and sites and they include:
Habitats at Herculaneum and Early Roman Interior Decoration
Civic, Commercial and Religious Buildings of Pompeii
Houses and Villas at Pompeii
Exploring Special Subjects on Pompeian Walls
This looks like a fantastic resource.

Università di Napoli "Federico II" - Open Archive

Maybe you all already know that the Università di Napoli "Federico II" started publishing its students' doctoral theses online a few years ago in its Open Archive - but I've only just discovered it and it's a great way to share unpublished research.

Those theses that are of interest to this blog include:

Bosso, Raffaella (2008) Cultura urbana e cultura figurativa in Campania tra l'età tetrarchica e le incursioni alariciane. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Tomeo, Antonella (2008) L’area del Foro di Cuma: i materiali residui come indicatori delle modalità di occupazione di un sito. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Guardascione, Flavia Milena (2008) Terme pubbliche in Campania: le terme del foro di Cuma e il sistema idrico. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Coraggio, Flavia (2007) Cuma. Il tempio della Masseria del Gigante. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Falcomatà, Maria (2007) La ceramica a figure rosse campana. Dalla necropoli cumana alle necropoli campane: repertorio figurativo, circuiti di circolazione, interpretazione socio-culturale. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Amodio, Maria (2007) Le aree funerarie a Napoli tra III e VI secolo. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Esposito, Domenico (2006) La pittura di Ercolano. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Castaldo, Flavio (2006) Le necropoli dell'agro campano tra VI e V sec. a.C. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Cristilli, Armando (2006) Marmora neapolitana. Le statue in marmo da Napoli romana. Dottorato thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.