De Giorgi L., Leucci G.
The archaeological site of Sagalassos is a very important settlement located in a magnificent mountain landscape, 7 km north from a little village named Aglasun (province of Burdur, SW Turkey). Since 1990 the University of Leuven (Belgium) carry out an interdisciplinary archaeological research programme that study the uninterrupted occupation of more than 1000 years in all its aspects from daily life to architecture, from trade and its mechanisms to environmental conditions of the past. The ancient roman city is a site covered under erosion layers and preserved many secrets that need to be...
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Giovanni Quarta, Giovanni Leucci, Raffaele Persico, Paola Durante, Sofia Giammaruco
In this paper, GPR data gathered by the non-destructive investigation campaign, performed by means of geophysical surveys carried out on the vault and the inner pillar of the Crypt of San Sebastiano are shown. The study is part of a wide preliminary diagnostic campaign aimed at the restoration of the monument, which included a thermographic relief on the painted walls and on the vault, a monitoring of climatic parameters such as temperature and relative humidity of the air and of the wall surfaces. In addition, in order to identify the materials constituting the wall paintings and their...
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Grazia Semeraro, Florinda Notarstefano, Renato Caldarola, Gianluca Quarta, Lucio Calcagnile
The aim of this work was to determine the provenance and the content of a group of archaic transport amphorae of different typologies retrieved during the archaeological excavations in the archaic settlement of Castello di Alceste (S.Vito dei Normanni- Br). We analysed a group of 16 samples belonging mainly to "Corinthian B" amphorae, which are widely diffused in the western Mediterranean basin and in Greece, but whose geographical provenance is still under discussion. XRF/FP analyses revealed that the amphorae were manufactured in three different areas of the Mediterranean: southern Italy,...
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Chiavoni Emanuela, Tacchi Gaia Lisa
As concerns the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, drawing is a crucial tool to document, understand and portray complex architectural and archaeological reality. Graphic data or informative documentation about an extremely interesting historical and artistic site can be enriched by its intangible values: atmosphere, colour, light and the environment.
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A. M. Gueli, V. Garro, S. Pasquale, G. Politi, G. Stella, D. Tanasi
The church of Sant'Agata la Vetere in Catania is located in a complex area of urban stratification and, according to historical sources, it is considered the first cathedral of the city. The occasion of archaeological excavations in the area of Sant’Agata la Vetere yielded many finds. Among these, frescoes, fragments of glass and mosaic tiles were dated, on an archaeological basis, to the 3rd and 4th centuries BC. The aim of the present work is to provide a scientific contribution to the archaeological classification of the site through the characterization of the finds from a compositional...
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G. Di Giacomo, L. De Giorgi, I. Ditaranto, I. G. Leucci, I. Miccoli, G. Scardozzi
This study concerns the main results of the research activity aimed at a new integrated knowledge of Casalrotto, a Medieval cave village (12th-13th century) near Mottola (TA). The research was based on archaeological and geophysical surveys performed in 2015 by researchers of the Laboratory of Geophysics applied to the Archaeological and Monumental Heritage and the Laboratory of Ancient Topography, Archaeology and Remote Sensing of CNR-IBAM in Lecce. In particular, archaeological investigations have allowed the upgrading the existing plan of the village through DGPS topographical surveys,...
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M. Cigola, A. Gallozzi, L.J. Senatore, R. Di Maccio, M. Molinara, G. Trovini, E. Marinelli, A. Montaquila, E. Polito, G. De Rosa
The Italian territory is characterized by an extremely high number of Cultural goods. Knowledge and measurement of many of these Cultural Heritage is extremely difficult in relation to the complexity of surveys through traditional methodologies. The contribution proposes an original approach to the knowledge and measurement of Cultural Heritage based on a social approach, transforming the user as an actor of the procedures for the acquisition of raw data. The Heritage Go (HeGo) project is the platform for data acquisition and processing. The contribution, in addition to a description of the...
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Maurizio Delli Santi
GIS is emerging as tools for controlling the territory. Today, it is recognized that they can be applied in different areas of cultural heritage. The Mediterranean area is characterized by its great use in the classical age of marbles and stones, which are widely reused in later times, a phenomenon that obeys economically viable rules. Similar destiny underwent also Oria, where many Roman city materials were used to build the medieval and modern center. The GIS for systematic mapping of the "ancient marbles" of the city of Oria has been organized so that the common features of stone articles...
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Enrico Butini, Flavio Butini, Micaela Angle, Pamela Cerino, Andrea De Angelis, Noemi Tomei, Flavio Altamura
In 2011, an extraordinary piece of gold jewelry set with precious stones was found in a woman's tomb discovered not far from Rome and dating from the third century AD. Our examination and archaeometric analyses enabled us to identify the technique used to make the jewel and to characterize the nature and provenance of the gemstones. The analyses showed that all the stones were natural sapphires. Their inclusions and gemmological features indicate that they came from southern and southeastern Asia, thus gaining insights about trade routes and the luxury-goods market during the Roman imperial...
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Maria Celeste Leuzzi, Mila Crippa, Giorgio Andrea Costa
In the frame of a research project involving a private collection of artworks a panel painting representing the Nursing Madonna (Madonna del latte) was studied by means of scientific examination. The Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry (DCCI) of the University of Genoa carried out non-invasive exams using reflectance spectroscopy in the visible range (vis-RS), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and imaging analyses like infrared reflectography (IRR), false colour infrared, UV fluorescence (UVF) in order to better understand the painting technique, from the underdrawing to the artist's...
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