Papers by Daniela Rossi
Collezione privata Arch. Barbato Fototeca dei Musei Vaticani La documentazione grafica e fotograf... more Collezione privata Arch. Barbato Fototeca dei Musei Vaticani La documentazione grafica e fotografica relativa ai nuovi scavi è da attribuire ai singoli archeologi e alle società indicate in nota come esecutori dei lavori; le tavole 6-8 sono state redatte da Valerio Bramucci La catacomba ebraica di Monteverde: vecchi dati e nuove scoperte a cura di
Bullettino Della Commissione Archeologica Comunale Di Roma, 2009
Scienze dell'Antichità, 2018, 1, pp. 101-109, 2018
Nell’economia sociale del territorio di Veio, oltre al commercio e all’allevamento di bestiame e ... more Nell’economia sociale del territorio di Veio, oltre al commercio e all’allevamento di bestiame e cavalli, l’at- tività di estrazione del tufo ha certamente ricoperto, alla luce della svolta epocale che l’edilizia pubblica e privata hanno subito con l’età arcaica, un ruolo di grande rilievo. In alcuni casi studio è possibile collegare da un punto di vista stratigrafico e quindi cronologico, o almeno topografico, queste cave con le altre tracce di frequentazione (abitazioni, necropoli) e quindi ricostruirne il complesso di appartenenza. Il contributo si prefigge dunque di presentare i dati editi sulle cave del territorio di Veio integrati con le recenti acquisizio- ni – prevalentemente inedite – e di fornire un quadro di lettura dell’attività estrattiva come uno degli elemen- ti caratterizzanti il “rango” di una nascente aristocrazia terriera che dominerà la scena politica ed economica della città etrusca fino alla sua definitiva capitolazione a Roma.
Atti convegno "Novità nella ricerca archeologica a Veio – Dagli studi di Ward-Perkins alle utlime scoperte” - British School at Rome – 18 gennaio 2013, 2015
Talks by Daniela Rossi
This conference addresses the ways in which burials were ordered, organised and commemorated in R... more This conference addresses the ways in which burials were ordered, organised and commemorated in Rome in the imperial period. Our focus will be on Rome and the suburbium. With a strong concentration on the topography of burials we will examine collective burials, the imagery used in burials, and grave cult, and look at the whole period from the early empire into the fifth century AD. Our intention is to analyse the relationships between social groups and burial groups, the ways in which funerary architecture and burial practice shaped and constrained relationships between the deceased and the bereaved, and change over time. In particular we hope to examine how far it is possible to differentiate between social groups from imperial burial practice.
Interventi a convegni by Daniela Rossi
Convegno dal titolo “Craft and Production in the European Iron Age” - University of Cambridge – 2... more Convegno dal titolo “Craft and Production in the European Iron Age” - University of Cambridge – 25/27 settembre 2015.
In the social economy of the territory of Veii, in addition to trade and the rearing of livestock and horses, the quarrying of tuff undoubtedly played a highly significant role, which can placed in the light of the momentous changes that public and private construction underwent in the Archaic period. There was agrowing demand for raw material for craft activities and for the construction of the new dwellings, with socles and sometimes walls made of tuff blocks that replaced the earlier huts of Protohistoric tradition as well as for the emerging tradition of construction of cult buildings. This called for systematic quarrying activities, scattered across the whole territory, whose traces have now been investigated stratigraphically, especially in recent years. In numerous contexts we find quarries associated with dwellings or with funerary complexes. In some cases it is possible from a stratigraphic and hence chronological point of view, or at least from a topographical perspective, to connect these quarries to other evidence of human activity, and thus to piece together the broader context in which they belonged. Two examples are particularly striking. The first is the site at Via A. d’Avack on the Via Veientana, where the quarry is in close proximity to the complex of contemporaneous tombs, which in some cases have yielded tuff funerary beds of exquisite craftsmanship. The second, equally rich in significance, is the Lucchina complex on the Via Trionfale, recently investigated by the current authors. Here, in addition to a thoroughfare lined by tombs ranging from the Orientalising to the late Archaic period, a well‐developed residential complex built of tuff blocks has been uncovered. Close to the dwellings and the road with the tombs, there was an area showing clear evidence of tuff quarrying; here, too, information about the social status of the owners of the dwellings, who also owned the nearby tombs, must also be considered in the light of the presence of the quarry. This paper thus sets out to present the published data relating to the quarries in the territory of Veii integrated with the recently obtained data (largely unpublished), to provide a framework for interpreting quarrying activity as one of the elements characterising the status of a rising landowning aristocracy that would dominate the political and economic landscape of the Etruscan city until its final capitulation to Rome.
Contributi in rivista by Daniela Rossi
Frontière· s Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’Art, 2022
The recent archaeological discoveries made in the north-western qua- drant of Rome, within the am... more The recent archaeological discoveries made in the north-western qua- drant of Rome, within the ambit of so-called ‘emergency archaeology’, make it possible to put knowledge into practice in a subject area which stimulates intense academic debate: the territory between Veii and Rome, in the period between the Archaism and the final conquest of the Etruscan city. The data available until now that have been employed in the reconstruction of settlement dynamics come almost exclusively from funerary contexts. The archaeological evidences–pertaining to residential structures–are rare and sporadic, although gradually increasing. The case illustrated here of the excavation in the Lucchina area (Via Trionfale,Ottavia)representsarareopportunitytoexaminea‘border’cultureindepththrough information provided by investigations–still under way–into a complex of Etruscan-Veian dwellings: houses with a tripartite layout of which there remain the bases in tufa blocks and collapsed tiles. In the necropolis, on the other hand, a tomb is being investigated of the Veian type a estibolo or a traite, with access steps and three loculi (two for cremations and one for inhumation) which have yielded a rich funerary equipment. A Veian community, then, providing evidence of the phenomenon of ‘internal colonisation’ of the suburb of the city so close to the border with Rome.
Mediterranea, XVIII, 2, LEGGERE IL PASSATO, COSTRUIRE IL FUTURO GLI ETRUSCHI E GLI ALTRI POPOLI DEL MEDITERRANEO Scritti in onore di Gilda Bartoloni, 2021
The Etruscan site of Acquafredda, situated in the southeastern territory of Veii, at the border w... more The Etruscan site of Acquafredda, situated in the southeastern territory of Veii, at the border with the land dominated by Rome, was excavated about forty years ago and has recently been the subject of new investigations. The paper aims at summarizing the history of studies dedicated to the site, integrating it with the results of new excavations, and critically discussing some recent hypotheses about the chronology and function of the settlement.
Archeologia Classica LXIV, 2013 - pp. 51-131
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In the social economy of the territory of Veii, in addition to trade and the rearing of livestock and horses, the quarrying of tuff undoubtedly played a highly significant role, which can placed in the light of the momentous changes that public and private construction underwent in the Archaic period. There was agrowing demand for raw material for craft activities and for the construction of the new dwellings, with socles and sometimes walls made of tuff blocks that replaced the earlier huts of Protohistoric tradition as well as for the emerging tradition of construction of cult buildings. This called for systematic quarrying activities, scattered across the whole territory, whose traces have now been investigated stratigraphically, especially in recent years. In numerous contexts we find quarries associated with dwellings or with funerary complexes. In some cases it is possible from a stratigraphic and hence chronological point of view, or at least from a topographical perspective, to connect these quarries to other evidence of human activity, and thus to piece together the broader context in which they belonged. Two examples are particularly striking. The first is the site at Via A. d’Avack on the Via Veientana, where the quarry is in close proximity to the complex of contemporaneous tombs, which in some cases have yielded tuff funerary beds of exquisite craftsmanship. The second, equally rich in significance, is the Lucchina complex on the Via Trionfale, recently investigated by the current authors. Here, in addition to a thoroughfare lined by tombs ranging from the Orientalising to the late Archaic period, a well‐developed residential complex built of tuff blocks has been uncovered. Close to the dwellings and the road with the tombs, there was an area showing clear evidence of tuff quarrying; here, too, information about the social status of the owners of the dwellings, who also owned the nearby tombs, must also be considered in the light of the presence of the quarry. This paper thus sets out to present the published data relating to the quarries in the territory of Veii integrated with the recently obtained data (largely unpublished), to provide a framework for interpreting quarrying activity as one of the elements characterising the status of a rising landowning aristocracy that would dominate the political and economic landscape of the Etruscan city until its final capitulation to Rome.
Contributi in rivista by Daniela Rossi
Atti di convegni by Daniela Rossi
In the social economy of the territory of Veii, in addition to trade and the rearing of livestock and horses, the quarrying of tuff undoubtedly played a highly significant role, which can placed in the light of the momentous changes that public and private construction underwent in the Archaic period. There was agrowing demand for raw material for craft activities and for the construction of the new dwellings, with socles and sometimes walls made of tuff blocks that replaced the earlier huts of Protohistoric tradition as well as for the emerging tradition of construction of cult buildings. This called for systematic quarrying activities, scattered across the whole territory, whose traces have now been investigated stratigraphically, especially in recent years. In numerous contexts we find quarries associated with dwellings or with funerary complexes. In some cases it is possible from a stratigraphic and hence chronological point of view, or at least from a topographical perspective, to connect these quarries to other evidence of human activity, and thus to piece together the broader context in which they belonged. Two examples are particularly striking. The first is the site at Via A. d’Avack on the Via Veientana, where the quarry is in close proximity to the complex of contemporaneous tombs, which in some cases have yielded tuff funerary beds of exquisite craftsmanship. The second, equally rich in significance, is the Lucchina complex on the Via Trionfale, recently investigated by the current authors. Here, in addition to a thoroughfare lined by tombs ranging from the Orientalising to the late Archaic period, a well‐developed residential complex built of tuff blocks has been uncovered. Close to the dwellings and the road with the tombs, there was an area showing clear evidence of tuff quarrying; here, too, information about the social status of the owners of the dwellings, who also owned the nearby tombs, must also be considered in the light of the presence of the quarry. This paper thus sets out to present the published data relating to the quarries in the territory of Veii integrated with the recently obtained data (largely unpublished), to provide a framework for interpreting quarrying activity as one of the elements characterising the status of a rising landowning aristocracy that would dominate the political and economic landscape of the Etruscan city until its final capitulation to Rome.