SURVEY AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Enrico FELICI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-ANT/09 - Ancient topography
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

The course, through classroom lectures and practical survey, gives the knowledge and methods for the recognition of building materials, with widenings on the interpretation of construction processes and architectural systems in antiquity, on the development and design of specific classes of monuments, as well as for the documentation of monuments and archaeological excavation, even in the underwater environment. We use examples of comparison between the archaeological remains and the evidence of the sources, especially Vitruvius.


Course Structure

Classroom lectures with slide show and reading of sources. Practice of archaeological direct survey and technical analysis on a monument (Whether the health regulations aimed at epidemiological containment will allow it to be carried out).


Detailed Course Content

Building materials; quarries. Construction process: mould; clay, wood; stone; opus caementicium, in its various forms (incertum, reticulatum, testaceum, etc.). Examples of building and architectural types. Archeological prospecting, remote sensing, direct survey. Cartography. Elements of archaeological stratigraphy. Graphic rendering. Archaeological survey practice.


Textbook Information

A. Carandini, Storie dalla terra: manuale dello scavo archeologico, Bari 1981, pp. 31-102.

F. Coarelli, L'inizio dell'opus testaceum a Roma e nell'Italia romana, in P. Boucheron, H. Broise, Y. Thébert (Eds.), (acte du coll.) La brique antique et médiévale. Production et commercialisation d'un matériau, (Saint-Cloud 1995) Rome 2000, pp. 87-95.

F. Coarelli, Opus mixtum, in (a cura di) F. M. Cifarelli, (atti del conv.) Tecniche costruttive del tardo ellenismo nel Lazio e in Campania, (Segni 2011) Roma 2013.

E. Felici, in F. P. Arata, E. Felici, Porticus Aemilia, navalia o horrea ? Ancora sui frammenti 23 e 24 b-d della Forma Urbis, in Archeologia Classica 62, n.s. 1, 2011: pp. 137-148 (12).

E. Felici, Il porto di Claudio e Vitruvio, in Atlante Tematico di Topografia Antica 23, 2013, pp. 111-137.

E. Felici, Dalla latomia al cantiere. Il trasporto nautico della pietra, in (a cura di) G. Buscemi Felici, E. Felici, L. Lanteri, Produzioni antiche sulla costa sud orientale della Sicilia. Saggi di topografia antica litoranea, Bari 2020 (ISBN 978-88-7228-927-3), pp. 147-174.

E. Felici, Antium. Archeologia subacquea e Vitruvio nel porto di Nerone, Bari 2021: pp. 93-103, 130-189.

C.F. Giuliani, L’edilizia nell’antichità, Roma 2006.

C.F. Giuliani, L'opus caementicium nell'edilizia romana, in (a cura di) C.F. Giuliani, A. Samuelli Ferretti, (atti del semin.) Opus caementicium. Il materiale e la tecnica costruttiva, Roma (1997) 1998, pp. 49-61.

C.F. Giuliani, Archeologia oggi. La fantasia al potere, in Quaderni di archeologia e di cultura classica 2, Tivoli 2012, pp. 5-48.

P. Gros, L’architettura romana. I monumenti pubblici, trad. it. Milano 2001, pp. 434-467.

G. Gullini, L'architettura e l'urbanistica, in Princeps urbium. Cultura e vita sociale dell'Italia romana, Milano 19932, pp. 419-714.

M. Medri, Manuale di rilievo archeologico, Roma-Bari 2003, pp. 26-79, 168-211.

 

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The reference texts can be consulted in the Library, except for some articles and transcriptions of ancient sources which, in compliance with current regulations, will be made available by the teacher on the STUDIUM digital platform.