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This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with clear maps, drawings, and plans, Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide covers all of the major, and an unparalleled number of minor, ancient sites in the city, and, unlike most other guides of Rome, includes major and many minor sites within easy reach of the city, such as Ostia Antica, Palestrina, Tivoli, and the many areas of interest along the ancient Roman roads. An essential resource for tourists interested in a deeper understanding of Rome's classical remains, it is also the ideal book for students and scholars approaching the ancient history of one of the world's most fascinating cities. • Covers all the major sites including the Capitoline, the Roman Forum, the Imperial Fora, the Palatine Hill, the Valley of the Colosseum, the Esquiline, the Caelian, the Quirinal, and the Campus Martius. • Discusses important clusters of sites-one on the area surrounding Circus Maximus and the other in the vicinity of the Trastevere, including the Aventine and the Vatican. • Covers the history and development of the city walls and aqueducts. • Follows major highways leading outside of the city to important and fascinating sites in the periphery of Rome. • Features 189 maps, drawings, and diagrams, and an appendix on building materials and techniques. • Includes an updated and expanded bibliography for students and scholars of Ancient Rome.

This paper presents a new fragment of the Forma Urbis Marmorea found during the works of the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma at Casale Torlonia, on the Aventine Hill. The paper describes the features of the new fragment, offering a possible interpretation of the topography represented on it.

In 12 BCE, Augustus undertook the responsibility for the calendar, which had gradually fallen out of alignment with the true dates of solstices and equinoxes. Augustus’ calendar reform, entailing the introduction of a leap day every four years, coincided with the erection of a grand meridian in the Campus Martius, known in Latin as Horologium Augusti. This device utilized the obelisk of Psamtik II (6° century BCE) as its gnomon that casted its shadow upon a travertine floor inscribed with bronze reference marks. Despite the discovery of the obelisk in 18th century and partial excavation of the floor in 1980, comprehending its geometric intricacies, regarding both dimensions and positioning, remained a challenge due to the complexities of conducting precise geomatic measurements in subterranean environments. Consequently, uncertainties persisted regarding its operational mechanics, particularly regarding whether the marks denoted days or ecliptic degrees. This study presents accurate measurements and statistically rigorous analyses that enable a precise repositioning of the meridian and a careful reconstruction of its geometry. The results suggest that the marks likely denoted specific days of the year, as recalled by Pliny the Elder. This provides support to the hypothesis that the monument functioned as an empirical validation of Augustus’ calendrical reform. In addition, the great accuracy achieved in positioning represents a fundamental aid in the desirable scenario to continue excavations of the meridian.

This article argues that Onofrio Panvinio's 1571 study of the Roman triumph embodies a central innovation of sixteenth-century classical scholarship, the use of visual reconstructions alongside textual accounts to communicate the details of ancient ceremonies. Panvinio built on the work of predecessors, most notably Pirro Ligorio, to produce a densely-detailed image of the triumphal procession in the style of Roman bas-reliefs, using the evidence of coins, friezes and texts. This illustration can be seen as an alternative historical rendition, rather than as an accompaniment to a textual description of the triumph. More generally, it reveals the creativity of Renaissance antiquarianism, a movement usually seen as devoted to the dry accumulation of evidence about antiquity, not its imaginative interpretation. Questo articolo deduce che lo studio di Onofrio Panvinio del 1571 del trionfo romano incarna un'innovazione centrale delia tradizione classica del XVI secolo, ovvero Vuso della ricostruzione visiva lungo i resocónti testuali per comunicare i dettagli delle antiche cerimonie. Panvinio costrut sul lavoro dei predecessori, più in particolare di Pirro Ligorio, per produrre un'imagine densamente dettagliata della processione trionfale nello stile del basso-rilievo romano, usando Yevidenza delle monete, dei fregi e dei testi. Questa illustrazione puo essere vista come una rappresentazione storica alternativa, piuttosto che un accompagnamento ad una descrizione testuale del trionfo. Piu generalmente, rivela la creatività delVantiquaria rinascente, un movimento usualmente visto come dedicato ad un accumulo arido di evidenza sulVantichità, non nella sua interpretazione immaginifica.

This survey article provides an update for the Journal’s readers on research relating to the City of Rome in antiquity since ‘The City of Rome: from Republic to Empire’ appeared in 1992.1 Extensive archaeological investigations have continued to take place in the city in recent years, given additional impetus by special funding from the Italian state in preparation for the ‘Giubileo’ (or Millennium) in 2000; while more generally the topography of ancient Rome has continued to be central to the work of historians writing about the city.

ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: La quinzièrne livraison des Studia erudita, la prestigieuse série de Pise, regroupe quelque quarante-huit articles et essais publiés par Mario Torelli au cours de ces dernières décennies. Malgré la diversité des thèmes, qui vont de l'archaïsme grec à la fin de l'Empire romain, ils ont un objectif commun: restituer la ou les significations que les monuments et les oeuvres d'art eurent en leur temps, et pour lesquelles ils ont été conçus. Les méthodes interdisciplinaires qui permettent cette démarche herméneutique font un large usage des nouvelles perspectives ouvertes par l'anthropologie, la sociologie et la sémiologie, sans oublier les disciplines traditionnellement liées à l'analyse archéologique, qu'elles soient littéraires, épigraphiques, iconographiques ou topographiques. Le recueil contient deux parties, dont la première s'attache au déchiffrement du langage de l'architecture, la seconde prenant en considération celui des images. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The fifteenth volume of Studia erudita, the prestigious Pisa series, includes about forty eight articles and essays published by M. Torelli during these last decades. Despite the diverse themes which range from Greek archaic to Roman imperial, they have a common aim: to determine the significance of the monuments in their period and for which they had been conceived. Interdisciplinary methods which support this hermeneutic research make wide use of new perspectives opened by anthropology, sociology and semiology, without forgetting those traditionally related to archaeological research -literary, epigraphical, iconographical or topographical. The collection is in two parts, the first devoted to the language of architecture, the second to that of the images.