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THE CITY OF ROME POSTGRADUATE COURSE
1 April – 27 May 2011
WEEK 1
FRIDAY 1 April
Students arrive – orientation meetings (course outline, administration etc):
16.15 Tea, followed by:
16.30 Library Tour, with Valerie Scott (BSR librarian), building tour
18.00 Introductory talk (Robert Coates-Stephens)
19.15 Drinks
20.00 Dinner (as every day except Saturdays)
SATURDAY 2 April : FORUM ROMANUM (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Introduction, Central area [PERMIT]
Caesarian & Augustan Rostra
Column of Phocas
Clivus Capitolinus and Porticus of the Di Consentes
Temples of Saturn, Concord, Vespasian and Castor
Monument of Bibulus
SUNDAY 3 April : FORUM BOARIUM
LEAVE 8.30am
Forum Boarium: introduction
10.00 Temple of Hercules [PERMIT]
Temple of Portunus
Area Sacra of S. Omobono
Arch of the Argentarii & ‘Arch of Janus’
S. Maria in Cosmedin, crypt (Great Altar of Hercules?)
Bridges of Aemilius, Cestius and Fabricius
Tiber Island
MONDAY 4 April : FORUM ROMANUM (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Mamertine Prison [PERMIT]
Comitium & Lapis Niger (overview)
Basilicas Aemilia & Julia
Temple of Divus Julius & Arches of Augustus
Arch of Septimius Severus
18.30 Seminar by Robert Coates-Stephens: “Sources for Roman topography”
TUESDAY 5 April : CAPITOLINE
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30am Araceli insula [PERMIT]
Piazza del Campidoglio
10.30 Temple of Veiovis [PERMIT]
Tabularium
Capitoline Museums & exhibition on Roman portraiture
Substructures of Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
Arx and ‘Auguraculum’
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WEDNESDAY 6 April
FREE STUDY
18.00 Lecture by Christopher Smith (Director, BSR): “Locating the Sacred”
THURSDAY 7 April : FORUM ROMANUM (Day 3)
LEAVE 8.30am
Vicus Tuscus & ‘Temple of Augustus’
9.30 Horrea Agrippiana [PERMIT]
Atrium Vestae
Upper Via Sacra & ‘Regia’
Arch of Titus
13.00/13.30 Metro C excavations at S. Maria del Loreto (Athenaeum?) – guided tour with
Giovanni Ricci (Cooperativa Archeologia)
WEEK 2
FRIDAY 8 April : CAMPUS MARTIUS (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Republican temples of Largo Argentina – guided tour with Monica Ceci (Sovrintendenza
Archeologica di Roma)
Crypta Balbi Museum & visit to the excavations [PERMIT]
Palazzo Mattei di Giove
Theatre of Pompey
Piazza Navona (Stadium of Domitian)
18.30 Seminar by Gabriele Cifani (University of Rome Tor Vergata): “Roman archaic
architecture and its social significance”
SATURDAY 9 April : MUSEUM VISIT
LEAVE 9.00am
Villa Giulia (Etruscan and Latial antiquities), with Rafael Scopacasa (BSR)
MONDAY 11 April : PALATINE (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.15am
9.00am House of the Griffins [PERMIT]
House of Augustus [PERMIT]
House of Livia [PERMIT]
Precinct of Victory & Magna Mater
Palatine Antiquarium
Aula Isiaca [PERMIT]
Domus Tiberiana & Orti Farnesiani
18.30 seminar by Robert Coates-Stephens: “Materials in construction and decoration”
TUESDAY 12 April : CAMPUS MARTIUS (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Forum Holitorium: temples beneath S. Nicola in Carcere [PERMIT]
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Temples of Apollo Sosianus & Bellona and fragments in Palazzo Lovatelli
Theatre of Marcellus
Porticus of Octavia
12.30/13.00 Palazzo della Cancelleria: Tomb of Hirtius & Domitianic casts [PERMIT]
Baths of Agrippa & Saepta
Pantheon
Ara Pacis & Museum (overview of Mausoleum of Augustus)
WEDNESDAY 13 April
FREE STUDY
18.00 Lecture by Stephen Heyworth (Wadham College Oxford): “Roman topography and
Latin diction”
THURSDAY 14 April : IMPERIAL FORA (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.30am
Imperial Fora: introduction
10.00 Forum of Caesar [PERMIT]
Forum of Augustus [PERMIT]
Forum of Nerva [PERMIT]
Templum Pacis [PERMIT]
12.30 or 14.00 Torre dei Conti [PERMIT]
WEEK 3
FRIDAY 15 April : PALATINE (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30am Domus Praeconum [PERMIT] to be confirmed
Domus Flavia
Domus Augustana, lower court and stadium
Domus Severiana
Septizodium (with Peter Fane-Saunders, BSR)
Vigna Barberini
SUNDAY 17 April : CAMPUS MARTIUS (Day 3)
9.30 ‘Augustan sundial’ [PERMIT]
Column of Marcus Aurelius
Temple of Hadrian
Isaeum Campense
Palazzo Altemps
MONDAY 18 April
FREE STUDY
TUESDAY 19 April : IMPERIAL FORA (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
Markets & Forum of Trajan
Museum of the Imperial Fora
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Palazzo Valentini excavations – guided tour with Paola Baldassarri (Sovraintendenza
archeologica del Lazio)
WEDNESDAY 20 April : VIA APPIA (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Porta Appia & Museum of the Aurelianic Walls
10.30 Columbaria of Vigna Codini [PERMIT]
11.30 Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas [PERMIT]
‘Arch of Drusus’
Baths of Caracalla
Porta Capena
18.00 Lecture by Nathaniel Jones (Yale University / CASVA [Center for Advanced Study in
the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington DC]): “Augustan Picture Galleries: Real and
Fictional”
THURSDAY 21 April : Museo Nazionale Romano
LEAVE 9.00am
Baths of Diocletian
Museo Nazionale Romano, Epigraphic Department & Aula X
Palazzo Massimo
18.30 seminar by Seth Bernard (American Academy in Rome): “Developments in midRepublican Roman architecture and the urban context”
WEEK 4
FRIDAY 22 April : OSTIA
LEAVE 8.30am
Ostia Antica, including:
12.30 Casa di Diana [PERMIT]
SUNDAY 24 APRIL : EASTER DAY
MONDAY 25 April (Easter Monday)
FREE STUDY
18.30 Seminar by Jonas Bjornebye (Norwegian Archaeological Institute in Rome): “Mithras
and the city of Rome”
TUESDAY 26 April : ESQUILINE (Day 1)
LEAVE 8.30am
Clivus Suburanus
10.00 Auditorium of Maecenas [PERMIT]
11.00 Compital altar, via S. Martino ai Monti [PERMIT]
Arch of Gallienus (Porta Esquilina)
Servian Walls at Termini
‘Trophies of Marius’ (Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus)
‘Temple of Minerva Medica’
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WEDNESDAY 27 April : AVENTINE & TESTACCIO
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Monte Testaccio [PERMIT]
‘Porticus Aemilia’ (Navalia?)
Tiber wharves
11.30 S. Sabina & ‘Isaeum’ excavations [PERMIT]
12.30 Mithraeum of via dei Cerchi [PERMIT]
Circus Maximus
18.00 Lecture by Ellen Westcott (BSR / Macquarie University): “Measuring sentiment. The
tombs and epitaphs of Isola Sacra”
THURSDAY 28 April : PORTUS
LEAVE 8.30am (coach)
9.30 Isola Sacra necropolis [PERMIT]
Portus – visit to the excavations, with Stephen Kay (British School at Rome) [PERMIT]
WEEK 5
FRIDAY 29 April : VATICAN MUSEUMS
LEAVE 9.30am
10.00 Room of the Aldobrandini Wedding, Odyssey Frescoes of via Graziosa [PERMIT]
Musei Pio-Clementino (Gallery of the Statues, Hall of the Busts, Cabinet of the Masks),
Chiaramonti, Braccio Nuovo
MONDAY 2 MAY : FORUM ROMANUM (Day 4)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Temple of Venus and Rome [PERMIT]
Curia & Tetrarchic Forum, with Monica Hellstrőm (Columbia University / American
Academy in Rome)
SS. Cosma & Damiano & ‘Temple of Romulus’
Basilica of Maxentius
Arch of Constantine
Colosseum, including visit to substructures & 3rd level balcony
From Monday-Wednesday the Swedish Academy and the Norwegian Archaeological Institute
hold a 3-day international workshop on “The Moving City”. Speakers include Ray Lawrence,
Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Michele Salzman and Diana Spencer. Entry might be arranged
for those interested (some papers relate directly to students’ individual research topics)
TUESDAY 3 May
FREE STUDY
WEDNESDAY 4 MAY
FREE STUDY
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THURSDAY 5 May : CAELIAN
LEAVE 8.30am
Neronian nymphaeum
S. Stefano Rotondo
Arch of Dolabella, Servian Wall & Arcus Neroniani
11.00 Temple of Claudius substructures [PERMIT]
11.30 Insula & domus beneath SS. Giovanni & Paolo [PERMIT]
Ludus Magnus
Isaeum Metellinum
18.00 Lecture by Filippo Coarelli (University of Perugia): “I vici del Palatino”
(In Italian, with English summary)
WEEK 6
FRIDAY 6 May : VIA APPIA (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
Villa of the Quintilii
Via Appia, 6th – 3rd miles
Tomb of Caecilia Metella
Circus of Maxentius
Catacombs of Praetextatus [PERMIT] tbc
MONDAY 9 May
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, Day 1
TUESDAY 10 May
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, Day 2
WEDNESDAY 11 May : OPPIAN
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 S. Pietro in Vincoli and Republican houses beneath [PERMIT]
Domus Aurea (overview)
Baths of Trajan
S. Clemente
12.30 Nymphaeum of Via Annibaldi [PERMIT]
18.00 Lecture by Marina Prusac (University of Oslo): “Colossal portraits in late antique
Rome”
THURSDAY 12 May :
FREE STUDY
WEEK 7
FRIDAY 13 May : TRASTEVERE & TIBER BANKS
LEAVE 8.30am
Roman houses under Palazzo Spada, tbc
S. Cecilia & Roman houses
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12.00 ‘Syrian Sanctuary’ of Janiculum [PERMIT]
S. Maria in Trastevere
Castel S. Angelo (Mausoleum of Hadrian)
MONDAY 16 May : QUIRINAL
LEAVE 8.30am
9.15 Mithraeum of Palazzo Barberini [PERMIT]
Piazza del Quirinale: introduction & Dioscuri statues
Altar of the Fire of Nero tbc
Servian Wall at via Salandra
14.00 Horti Sallustiani [PERMIT]
Praetorian Camp
TUESDAY 17 May : VIA OSTIENSIS
LEAVE 8.30am
Porta Ostiensis and Museum of Via Ostiensis
10.00 Pyramid of Cestius and funerary chamber [PERMIT]
Montemartini Museum, Via Ostiensis
S. Paolo fuori le Mura
WEDNESDAY 18 May
FREE STUDY
18.00 Lecture by Claire Sotinel (Université Paris Est-Créteil): “Episcopal sponsorship and the
churches of Rome in late antiquity”
THURSDAY 19 May : ESQUILINE (Day 2)
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Republican tombs of via Statilia [PERMIT]
Porta Maggiore & Tomb of Eurysaces [PERMIT]
Aurelianic Walls - either at Sessorian or Porta Tiburtina
S. Giovanni in Laterano
WEEK 8
FRIDAY 20 May
FREE STUDY
18.30 Seminar by Sue Russell (Assistant Director, BSR) on Pirro Ligorio, antiquarian
SATURDAY 21 May : TIVOLI
LEAVE (coach) 8.45am
Hadrian’s Villa, including
Teatro Marittimo [PERMIT]
Tivoli
MONDAY 23 May
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FREE STUDY
TUESDAY 24 May : EXTRAMURAL BASILICAS
LEAVE 8.30am
9.30 Mausoleum of Constantina (S. Costanza) & S. Agnese fuori le Mura
S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura
Verano Cemetery & tomb of Lanciani
WEDNESDAY 25 May
FREE STUDY
18.00 Lecture by David Knipp (University of Freiburg / German Archaeological Institute in
Rome): “The Roman buildings at S. Maria Antiqua. Late antique transformation and
decoration”
THURSDAY 26 May : FORUM ROMANUM (Day 5)
S. Maria Antiqua and Oratory of the XL Martyrs [PERMIT] , tbc
Lacus Juturnae
House of the Knights of Rhodes [PERMIT]
FRIDAY 27 May : Course ends