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Arrivare a Sabratha. La città e la sua immagine
2018
Lo sviluppo urbanistico dei due più noti emporia di Tripolitania è stato indagato cercando di cogliere il senso dei alcuni evidenti cambiamenti nel tracciato dei principali assi viari. Leptis mostra di aver adeguato coerentemente alla sua espansione i suoi percorsi interni, mutandone la funzione da direttrici di traffico a percorsi “di rappresentanza”. Riguardo a Sabratha, sfugge la logica sottesa ad ognuna delle sue principali fasi di sviluppo urbanistico. L’emporio ellenistico si conformerebbe al modello urbanistico fissato da Alessandria. Difficile è trovare un riscontro nella pianta della città: ubicazione e dimensioni dell'agorà della Sabratha punica contrastano con la vocazione di sbo…
Reshaping civic space: some remarks on the transformations of the towns of Roman Sicily in the late Republic and early Empire
2018
Recent scholarship pointed out how the towns of Sicily experienced wide urbanistic and architectural transformations during the Hellenistic period. After the long debate on the chronology of the phenomena of material growth and dense urbanization shown by the archaeological record, that previously had been assigned exclusively to the Early Hellenistic period, it’s now generally accepted that several cities, especially in North-Western Sicily, reshaped their urban panoplia after the Roman conquest of the island, in the 2nd-1st centuries B.C., renovating extensively both civic and private buildings. Less known are the further transformations of the urban landscape between the late Republican …
«Questa è la città di Augusto». Archi e processioni a Leptis Magna
2020
A recent study on the Trajan's arch at Leptis Magna mentions a second arch of Tiberius, along a street which runs parallel to the main cardo, where the more famous “twin” of this arch is located. The study also mentions a structure, an arch as well, posed at the same place where the tetrapyle of Trajan was erected. These three arches mark the three vertices of a quadrilateral of streets involving the main places of the public consent through the Imperial House. It is not a case that this predecessor of the Trajan's arch lies on the crossway among the main cardo and a way with goes to the street that separes the Theatre, the fourth vertex of the quadrilateral, from the porticus post scaenam.…
Concordiae Agrigentinorum sacrum res publica Lilybitanorum. Nessi reali e presunti tra Agrigentum e Lilybaeum, a proposito di Iside. Parte I. Agrigen…
2019
The discovery of a temple at Agrigento in the neinties of the last Century and the recent detection of a sacred building at Lilibeo should contribute, according with their discoverers, to fill the lack of evidences concerning the Isis cult between the East and West part of Sicily. In order to re-consider the data that should confirm these two interpretations, the aim of this contribution is to take in exam the first of these two cases, Agrigento, suggesting, with the necessary prudence, a different lecture. Rather than an alternative hypothesis this lecture would offer a contribution to the debate. Some considerations on the sacred building and its location next to the Forum as well as on t…
Drusilla sacerdos o diva nella Colonia Augusta Himereorum Thermitanorum?
2018
Among the sculptures of the Museo Civico of Termini Imerese that were published by Nicola Bonacasa in 1960, a female portrait head of a Julio-Claudian princess is remarkable for its excellent workmanship. The paper deals with the problem of the identification of the subject, variously referred to as Agrippina I, Agrippina II, Messalina or Drusilla, according to the interpretation of the portrait series “Glyptothek of Munich 316- Caere” to which the head belongs. The comparanda, some iconographic details giving a certain aura of sanctity to the subject, and the very strong physiognomical resemblance with the likenesses of Caligula confirm the hypothesis that the woman portrayed in the head f…