Papers by Francesca D'Andrea
Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3. III Convegno Internazionale di Antichistica Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, a cura di A. Cristilli, G. Di Luca, A. Gonfloni, E.S. Capra and M. Pontuali, 2024
This paper aims at analysing the interplay between landscape and power in the eastern sector of t... more This paper aims at analysing the interplay between landscape and power in the eastern sector of the Esquiline Hill in Rome (1st BCE - 3rd CE). Attention will first be directed to the urban and monumental
growth of this area at the beginning to the Empire emphasizing Augustus’ involvement in this development. To demonstrate the political and ideological significance this area acquired for the Princeps and his successors, the focus will then be turned to the private residences on the edge of the city (horti Romani) in an attempt to offer a political interpretation of the land distribution among the emperors’ entourage. The paper has a twofold goal: to demonstrate the interest of the emperors in controlling and acquiring this area,
including through donations and confiscations of land; and to analyse the ways in which emperors and their
supporters shaped the Esquiline into a Landscape of Power.
KTISEIS Fondazioni d’Occidente. Intrecci culturali tra Gela, Agrigento, Creta e Rodi – Atti delle XIV Giornate Gregoriane Agrigento, Museo Archeologico 25-27 Novembre 2022. A cura di Valentina Caminneci, Matteo D’Acunto, Claudia Lambrugo, Maria Concetta Parello, 2024
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia. Serie 5, 15.2 - Supplemento, 2023
The western sector of the sacred area of Temple D, located on the southern hill of Akragas, has r... more The western sector of the sacred area of Temple D, located on the southern hill of Akragas, has received little scholarly attention to date. This paper provides the first results of the archaeological research carried out in 2022, following on from the promising outcomes of the 2021 excavations. The study focuses on two walls made of calcarenite blocks to investigate their architectural features and chronology. The aim is to enhance our comprehension of the area by examining the functional and topographic relationships between these architectural remains, Temple D and its sacred area. The available evidence suggests that this sector preserves interesting data concerning the use of the sanctuary during the late Archaic period, before the construction of the 5th century BC Doric Temple.
Epigraphica. Periodico Internazionale di Epigrafia, 2023
La Direzione si vale inoltre di un ampio Comitato internazionale di lettura al quale sottopone, a... more La Direzione si vale inoltre di un ampio Comitato internazionale di lettura al quale sottopone, a seconda delle specifiche competenze e in forma anonima, gli articoli pervenuti con la procedura del «doppio cieco».
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, s. 5, 14/2, Supplemento, pp. 27-34, 2022
Archeologia Classica, LXXIII, pp. 269-294, 2022
This paper presents the rediscovery of an epigraphic document, which was believed to be lost sinc... more This paper presents the rediscovery of an epigraphic document, which was believed to be lost since the 16th century. The research begins with the analysis of a fragmentary inscribed epistyle, kept in storage within the archaeological area of the Scipio’s tomb, and it will be demonstrated that this inscription originally belonged to the epistyle of the so-called Schola Xanthi, discovered in 1539 in the Roman Forum. This building was immediately destroyed and the inscription, recovered from the warehouse on the Appian Way, remains the only epigraphic and archaeological evidence for this schola, devoted to the scribes and heralds of the curule aediles. The paper intends to examine the sources left by the antiquarians, in order to speculate on the circumstances that favoured the preservation of this inscription over the centuries. Secondly, the rediscovered fragmentary inscription will be used to suggest the reconstruction of the entire epistyle and to develop further consideration about the architecture, the chronology and the location of this Roman place of imperial administration.
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, s. 5, 13/2, Supplemento, pp. 103-110, 2021
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung , 127, pp. 290–321, 2021
Available online: https://publications.dainst.org/journals/rm/article/view/3673/7349
The object ... more Available online: https://publications.dainst.org/journals/rm/article/view/3673/7349
The object of this paper is a Roman relief discovered in Rome and now exhibited at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. Although the relief has been known since the Re-naissance, its provenance, chronology and interpretation are still a matter of debate. The first part of this study retraces the modern history of the relief, from the Villa Medici Collection to the Uffizi, through the examination of the antiquarian, icono-graphic and archival sources. Then attention is devoted to the archaeological study. The scene depicts the sacrifice of a bull, performed by the victimarii, in the presence of a togatus, two children holding a shield, a personification and, significantly, a palm tree. The paper offers a stylistic and iconographic analysis and an explanation of the relief, hitherto poorly investigated.
R. Dubbini (a cura di), I confini di Roma. Atti del convegno internazionale (Università degli Studi di Ferrara, 31 maggio- 2 giugno 2018), Pisa, 2019
We can try to imagine what an ancient traveller could have seen on reaching the city of Rome whil... more We can try to imagine what an ancient traveller could have seen on reaching the city of Rome while walking along the via Tiburtina or the via Labicana-Praenestina. He would have appreciated the multifunctional landscape of the south-eastern Esquiline, where giant aqueducts, extended necropolis and monumental tombs shared borders with lavish gardens. This paper focuses especially on the highly debated issues concerning the topography, archaeology and history of the horti Tauriani, Pallantiani and Epaphroditiani, which embellished this area between the beginning of the Empire and the 1st century AD. It is crucial to analyse the coexistence here between public infrastructures, tombs and private estates owned by emperors’ trusted men and freedmen, in order to define their boundaries and interrogate their topographical interactions. It is also important to investigate the spatial and functional relationships between the limits of the urban space of Rome and the development of this area of transition between the city and the countryside. The ultimate goal is to emphasize the economic, political and ideological significance of this strategic area, thus investigating the importance of the urban sprawl of the ancient city for the development of this landscape located at the periphery of Rome.
Mélanges de l'École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA), 130.1, pp. 143-164, 2018
Available online: https://journals.openedition.org/mefra/4782
Più di ottant’anni sono passati da... more Available online: https://journals.openedition.org/mefra/4782
Più di ottant’anni sono passati dall’importante pubblicazione di Pierre Grimal sugli horti Tauriani, Pallantiani ed Epaphroditiani. Il presente contributo offre una revisione dello status quaestionis su queste ricche proprietà immerse nel verde, estese in età imperiale nel settore sud-orientale del colle Esquilino, al fine di chiarire alcune delle numerose problematiche ancora aperte in merito alla loro localizzazione. Si prenderà successivamente in esame un inedito disegno di scavo, in cui si propone di riconoscere i resti del monumentale sepolcro di Epafrodito, eretto dal potente liberto imperiale lungo i confini delle sue proprietà. Si auspica in tal modo di offrire nuovi dati per definire i confini e l’estensione degli horti Epaphroditiani, utili a migliorare la conoscenza di questo importante settore periurbano della città antica.
Over eighty years have passed since Pierre Grimal’s work concerning the so-called Horti Tauriani, Pallantiani and Epaphroditiani was published. Through the re-examination of the status quaestionis about the south-eastern gardens of the Esquiline Hill, this paper aims at solving some of the many fundamental and still unsolved issues about their location during the Imperial Age. Furthermore, the examination of a handmade drawing allows us to clearly identify the remains of Epaphroditus’ monumental tomb, located along the borders of the imperial freedman’s gardens. Thanks to archival research, it is possible to clarify the highly debated location of the horti Epaphroditiani, in order to improve our understanding of the topography of this ancient landscape.
The tomb of the Scipios was discovered in 1780 in the Vigna Sassi, along the first mile of the Ap... more The tomb of the Scipios was discovered in 1780 in the Vigna Sassi, along the first mile of the Appian way. The history of this important discovery is well documented in archaeological literature and the monument has been studied since the 18th century and continues to be the object of new revisions at present. However, we are not well-informed about the development of this archaeological area after that crucial discovery. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge of the modern history of this ancient landscape and to investigate the collection of antiquities, created there to preserve the ancient finds from the area surrounding the Sciopios tomb and the columbarium of Pomponius Hylas. The results achieved through archival research allow us to know more about the redevelopment work carried out in this funerary area, purchased by the city of Rome in 1887 and fully restored by 1930.
La tomba degli Scipioni tornò alla luce nel 1780 nella Vigna Sassi, lungo il primo miglio dell’antica via Appia. La storia di questa importante scoperta è ampiamente nota in letteratura, il monumento è stato più volte studiato a partire dal XVIII secolo e continua ad essere oggetto di importanti revisioni. Al contrario, poco note sono le vicende riguardanti le trasformazioni dell’area archeologica a partire da questo cruciale ritrovamento. L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è di contribuire a colmare tali carenze, ripercorrendo la storia moderna dello sviluppo del paesaggio antico. Si vuole altresì porre l’attenzione sulla collezione di antichità che qui prese forma, composta da reperti rinvenuti nei terreni compresi tra il sepolcro degli Scipioni e il colombario di Pomponius Hylas. La ricerca d’archivio ha permesso di far luce sui lavori di restauro e valorizzazione dell’area, iniziati nel 1887 con l’acquisto dei monumenti da parte del Comune di Roma e ultimati solo nel 1930.
Progetto grafico e impaginazione LineLab.edizioni -Alessandria
Papers of the British School at Rome, 83, 2015, pp. 29-63., 2015
This article provides a reconstruction of a Roman funerary complex that was discovered near the P... more This article provides a reconstruction of a Roman funerary complex that was discovered near the Porta Maggiore in Rome at the end of the nineteenth century (1871), using excavation reports and drawings, archival photographs, topographical indications and epigraphic materials. This paper examines the inscriptions discovered inside these tombs, which have been published in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL VI, 5961–6148), but attributed to the wrong funerary context. Thanks to two photographs taken by John Henry Parker in 1871, we can now ‘re-place’ these inscriptions in their original burial chamber. The objective of this study is to use this varied evidence to contribute to our understanding of the archaeological and topographical development of this area, through an analysis of the different periods in which this burial ground was utilized.
The revision of six funerary inscriptions and a group of fragments belonging to an imperial monum... more The revision of six funerary inscriptions and a group of fragments belonging to an imperial monument,
already published in CIL, VI, led some young scholars to a few small but significant acquisitions. The
new readings, discoveries and interpretations here published were obtained during the preliminary works
for the digitization of these texts for EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma: www.edr-edr.it), and show
how important this project is not only as a research tool, but also in view of a process of “permanent
education”.
Conference Presentations by Francesca D'Andrea
Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3 III Convegno Internazionale di Antichità Classiche Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ 29-31 maggio 2023
Space is the Place Experiencing the Interplay of Architecture and Space in the Classical World The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Faculty of Classics University of Oxford Saturday, 22 April - Sunday, 23 April 2023
Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC), third annual meeting.
Univer... more Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC), third annual meeting.
University of Sidney, 13-15 February 2023
MAARC 2023 is hosted by The University of Sydney with the support of the Department of Archaeology, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation.
THE SHOCK OF THE OLD/NEW? Itinerant “Greek” Sculptures in Roman Times
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superi... more THE SHOCK OF THE OLD/NEW? Itinerant “Greek” Sculptures in Roman Times
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 16-17 January 2023
XVI CONGRESSUS INTERNATIONALIS EPIGRAPHIAE GRAECAE ET LATINAE (BORDEAUX 2022)
Section: «Tituli No... more XVI CONGRESSUS INTERNATIONALIS EPIGRAPHIAE GRAECAE ET LATINAE (BORDEAUX 2022)
Section: «Tituli Novi Latini» (Chairs: Anne Kolb and Jonathan Edmondson)
Architecture & Archaeology. Theory and Practices on the Mediterranean Cultural Heritage - Scuola Normale Superiore, June 8, 2022
Bilge Ar-Görkem Günay-Zeynep Kuban (ITU), The role of architects in archaeological sites: "The IT... more Bilge Ar-Görkem Günay-Zeynep Kuban (ITU), The role of architects in archaeological sites: "The ITU Summer School" Umut Almaç (ITU), Cultural heritage, digital documentation, inspection and visualization, alternative ways of capturing data, the contribution of new technologies, cons and pros Fernando Vela (UPM), Archeology of architecture and the historic city Fernando Vela (UPM), A case study: archeology of late medieval and modern Madrid (13th-18th centuries) Lunch Break 14:15 Alvaro Ridruejo (UPM), Ancient objects from the perspective of materials science Massimo Bergamasco (SSSA), Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Marcello Carrozzino (SSSA), Virtual Humans for the dissemination of Cultural Heritage Francesca D'Andrea (SNS), Excavation or Survey? Akragas and Lokroi: methods and approaches Cristoforo Grotta (SNS) Restoring and Monitoring an ancient temple: from the archive to the monument Maria Concetta Parello (Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi), Agrigento: the archaeological site and its Park Gianfranco Adornato (SNS), Conclusive remarks
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growth of this area at the beginning to the Empire emphasizing Augustus’ involvement in this development. To demonstrate the political and ideological significance this area acquired for the Princeps and his successors, the focus will then be turned to the private residences on the edge of the city (horti Romani) in an attempt to offer a political interpretation of the land distribution among the emperors’ entourage. The paper has a twofold goal: to demonstrate the interest of the emperors in controlling and acquiring this area,
including through donations and confiscations of land; and to analyse the ways in which emperors and their
supporters shaped the Esquiline into a Landscape of Power.
The object of this paper is a Roman relief discovered in Rome and now exhibited at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. Although the relief has been known since the Re-naissance, its provenance, chronology and interpretation are still a matter of debate. The first part of this study retraces the modern history of the relief, from the Villa Medici Collection to the Uffizi, through the examination of the antiquarian, icono-graphic and archival sources. Then attention is devoted to the archaeological study. The scene depicts the sacrifice of a bull, performed by the victimarii, in the presence of a togatus, two children holding a shield, a personification and, significantly, a palm tree. The paper offers a stylistic and iconographic analysis and an explanation of the relief, hitherto poorly investigated.
Più di ottant’anni sono passati dall’importante pubblicazione di Pierre Grimal sugli horti Tauriani, Pallantiani ed Epaphroditiani. Il presente contributo offre una revisione dello status quaestionis su queste ricche proprietà immerse nel verde, estese in età imperiale nel settore sud-orientale del colle Esquilino, al fine di chiarire alcune delle numerose problematiche ancora aperte in merito alla loro localizzazione. Si prenderà successivamente in esame un inedito disegno di scavo, in cui si propone di riconoscere i resti del monumentale sepolcro di Epafrodito, eretto dal potente liberto imperiale lungo i confini delle sue proprietà. Si auspica in tal modo di offrire nuovi dati per definire i confini e l’estensione degli horti Epaphroditiani, utili a migliorare la conoscenza di questo importante settore periurbano della città antica.
Over eighty years have passed since Pierre Grimal’s work concerning the so-called Horti Tauriani, Pallantiani and Epaphroditiani was published. Through the re-examination of the status quaestionis about the south-eastern gardens of the Esquiline Hill, this paper aims at solving some of the many fundamental and still unsolved issues about their location during the Imperial Age. Furthermore, the examination of a handmade drawing allows us to clearly identify the remains of Epaphroditus’ monumental tomb, located along the borders of the imperial freedman’s gardens. Thanks to archival research, it is possible to clarify the highly debated location of the horti Epaphroditiani, in order to improve our understanding of the topography of this ancient landscape.
La tomba degli Scipioni tornò alla luce nel 1780 nella Vigna Sassi, lungo il primo miglio dell’antica via Appia. La storia di questa importante scoperta è ampiamente nota in letteratura, il monumento è stato più volte studiato a partire dal XVIII secolo e continua ad essere oggetto di importanti revisioni. Al contrario, poco note sono le vicende riguardanti le trasformazioni dell’area archeologica a partire da questo cruciale ritrovamento. L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è di contribuire a colmare tali carenze, ripercorrendo la storia moderna dello sviluppo del paesaggio antico. Si vuole altresì porre l’attenzione sulla collezione di antichità che qui prese forma, composta da reperti rinvenuti nei terreni compresi tra il sepolcro degli Scipioni e il colombario di Pomponius Hylas. La ricerca d’archivio ha permesso di far luce sui lavori di restauro e valorizzazione dell’area, iniziati nel 1887 con l’acquisto dei monumenti da parte del Comune di Roma e ultimati solo nel 1930.
already published in CIL, VI, led some young scholars to a few small but significant acquisitions. The
new readings, discoveries and interpretations here published were obtained during the preliminary works
for the digitization of these texts for EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma: www.edr-edr.it), and show
how important this project is not only as a research tool, but also in view of a process of “permanent
education”.
Conference Presentations by Francesca D'Andrea
University of Sidney, 13-15 February 2023
MAARC 2023 is hosted by The University of Sydney with the support of the Department of Archaeology, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation.
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 16-17 January 2023
Section: «Tituli Novi Latini» (Chairs: Anne Kolb and Jonathan Edmondson)
growth of this area at the beginning to the Empire emphasizing Augustus’ involvement in this development. To demonstrate the political and ideological significance this area acquired for the Princeps and his successors, the focus will then be turned to the private residences on the edge of the city (horti Romani) in an attempt to offer a political interpretation of the land distribution among the emperors’ entourage. The paper has a twofold goal: to demonstrate the interest of the emperors in controlling and acquiring this area,
including through donations and confiscations of land; and to analyse the ways in which emperors and their
supporters shaped the Esquiline into a Landscape of Power.
The object of this paper is a Roman relief discovered in Rome and now exhibited at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. Although the relief has been known since the Re-naissance, its provenance, chronology and interpretation are still a matter of debate. The first part of this study retraces the modern history of the relief, from the Villa Medici Collection to the Uffizi, through the examination of the antiquarian, icono-graphic and archival sources. Then attention is devoted to the archaeological study. The scene depicts the sacrifice of a bull, performed by the victimarii, in the presence of a togatus, two children holding a shield, a personification and, significantly, a palm tree. The paper offers a stylistic and iconographic analysis and an explanation of the relief, hitherto poorly investigated.
Più di ottant’anni sono passati dall’importante pubblicazione di Pierre Grimal sugli horti Tauriani, Pallantiani ed Epaphroditiani. Il presente contributo offre una revisione dello status quaestionis su queste ricche proprietà immerse nel verde, estese in età imperiale nel settore sud-orientale del colle Esquilino, al fine di chiarire alcune delle numerose problematiche ancora aperte in merito alla loro localizzazione. Si prenderà successivamente in esame un inedito disegno di scavo, in cui si propone di riconoscere i resti del monumentale sepolcro di Epafrodito, eretto dal potente liberto imperiale lungo i confini delle sue proprietà. Si auspica in tal modo di offrire nuovi dati per definire i confini e l’estensione degli horti Epaphroditiani, utili a migliorare la conoscenza di questo importante settore periurbano della città antica.
Over eighty years have passed since Pierre Grimal’s work concerning the so-called Horti Tauriani, Pallantiani and Epaphroditiani was published. Through the re-examination of the status quaestionis about the south-eastern gardens of the Esquiline Hill, this paper aims at solving some of the many fundamental and still unsolved issues about their location during the Imperial Age. Furthermore, the examination of a handmade drawing allows us to clearly identify the remains of Epaphroditus’ monumental tomb, located along the borders of the imperial freedman’s gardens. Thanks to archival research, it is possible to clarify the highly debated location of the horti Epaphroditiani, in order to improve our understanding of the topography of this ancient landscape.
La tomba degli Scipioni tornò alla luce nel 1780 nella Vigna Sassi, lungo il primo miglio dell’antica via Appia. La storia di questa importante scoperta è ampiamente nota in letteratura, il monumento è stato più volte studiato a partire dal XVIII secolo e continua ad essere oggetto di importanti revisioni. Al contrario, poco note sono le vicende riguardanti le trasformazioni dell’area archeologica a partire da questo cruciale ritrovamento. L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è di contribuire a colmare tali carenze, ripercorrendo la storia moderna dello sviluppo del paesaggio antico. Si vuole altresì porre l’attenzione sulla collezione di antichità che qui prese forma, composta da reperti rinvenuti nei terreni compresi tra il sepolcro degli Scipioni e il colombario di Pomponius Hylas. La ricerca d’archivio ha permesso di far luce sui lavori di restauro e valorizzazione dell’area, iniziati nel 1887 con l’acquisto dei monumenti da parte del Comune di Roma e ultimati solo nel 1930.
already published in CIL, VI, led some young scholars to a few small but significant acquisitions. The
new readings, discoveries and interpretations here published were obtained during the preliminary works
for the digitization of these texts for EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma: www.edr-edr.it), and show
how important this project is not only as a research tool, but also in view of a process of “permanent
education”.
University of Sidney, 13-15 February 2023
MAARC 2023 is hosted by The University of Sydney with the support of the Department of Archaeology, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation.
Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 16-17 January 2023
Section: «Tituli Novi Latini» (Chairs: Anne Kolb and Jonathan Edmondson)
JANUARY 5-8, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
SESSION 1H: PRIVATA MAGNIFICENTIA. BUILDING AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN THE PRIVATE SPHERE (COLLOQUIUM)
ORGANIZERS AND MODERATORS:
Margaret Kurkoski (Princeton University)
Francesca D’Andrea (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
ne discute FRANCESCA D'ANDREA
Scuola Normale Superiore , Pisa, 19 marzo 2019.
Archeologia e storia del paesaggio urbano della via Appia a Roma.
Convegno di Studi
Progetto PRIN 2012 – “Roma, zona archeologica monumentale: conoscere per valorizzare”
10 giugno 2015 – Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani onlus, Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta 2, Salone Conferenze
By combining bibliographic research and unpublished archival notes, the paper aims to bring these inscriptions back to their originai contexts. It will firstly illustrate how and when these inscriptions were placed in the storage. Then, it will focus on the epigraphic materials and their provenances. The analysis of these inscriptions, as texts and monuments, defìnes rheir funerary contexts and indicates that they mosdy belong to freedman and slaves who decided to be buried in family chambers, columbaria or funerary precincts, from the Late Republic until the third century AD.
The results of this investigation allow us to pinpoint the provenance of several inscriptions, discovered along the first and second mile of the Appian Way, in order to increase our understanding of this ancient funerary landscape.