Ricerc@Sapienza

The survey of historical windows and doors in Latium describes the features of fragile components which have been often completely substituted or transformed. Taking and figurative role in the architectural and urban image into consideration, the knowledge of their main typologies – sometime exclusively given by the painted representations on historical façades – helps to improve their conservation

Le Antichità di Cora (1764) costituiscono, da diversi punti di vista, un caso speciale: per l’impegno editoriale in esso profuso dall’artista-impresario Piranesi; per il carattere monografico attribuito al pur limitato dossier; per la assoluta novità che l’eccentrico contesto avrebbe rappresentato nel panorama delle conoscenze sulle antiche architetture romane.

L’ultima tappa delle ricognizioni di Piranesi nella regione di Roma – la più remota ed eccentrica di un itinerario dedicato ai luoghi dei Colli Albani frequentati dalla corte pontificia di Clemente XIII Rezzonico, mecenate di quelle esplorazioni – portò l’architetto veneziano a Cori, l’antica città latina di Cora alle falde dei Monti Lepini, lungo l’itinerario storico e archeologico – ma, al tempo stesso, poetico ed estetico – della Via Appia.

Know since the second half of the Eighteenth century, the figural corinthian capitals of Cora (Latium) have not yet received adequate consideration and appropriate contextualization whthin this original type of Italic architectural decoration of the Hellenistic period. The present works analyses their form and meaning and highlights their formal, compositional and stylistic relationships with other and much better known series of similar artefacts from southern Italy and Etruria.

Objective: Concha bullosa is a rather common condition of the nasal turbinates, rarely reported in archaeological skeletal collections. This paper examines a case of concha bullosa as seen in a female cranium from a burial in central Italy, dated to the Longobard domination in the Peninsula (mid-7th– early 8th century CE). Materials: The individual under investigation (T86/17) comes from the funerary area of Selvicciola, located near the town of Viterbo in northern Latium, Italy. Methods: The skeleton was macroscopically examined.

Edizione e commento di un cospicuo lotto di graffiti tracciati post cocturam su ceramica a vernice nera da Norba (dintorni della cd. Acropoli Minore)

The most significant results of seed germination of Sporobolus aculeatus (L.) P.M.Petersonand Juncus subulatus Forssk. are reported. The seeds were collected from the Natural Monument “Palude di Torre Flavia” in Latium. The highest germination value (92.0%) for S. aculeatus seeds were obtained after 2 months of cold stratification and then incubation at an alternating temperature of 20/10°C in continuous darkness. For J. subulatus, the best germination value (95.0%) were obtained with alternating temperatures, 20/10°C and 15/6°C, under a 12/12h (light/dark) photoperiod.

We have explored the multimethod approach combining 40Ar/39Ar on single crystal, ESR on bleached quartz, and ESR/U-series on teeth to improve the age of four neighbours “Acheulian” sites of the Frosinone Province (Latium, Italy): Fontana Ranuccio, Cava Pompi (Pofi), Isoletta, and Lademagne. Ages obtained by the three methods are in mutual agreement and confirm the potential of dating with confidence Middle Pleistocene sites of Italy using these methods.