Patrick Conway's Roman Archaeology Field Reports Site - Page 2

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Luxembourg|Scotland|Spain|Tunisia|Turkey|Ukraine
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Italy

• Campanaio. This is the hompage of a geophysical survey project at a Roman settlement in Sicily. It is mainly a discussion of the results, with accompanying illustrations.
• Chianciano Terme. An excellent site report, with a "clickable" map, and numerous good pictures. Beautifully laid out. Available in English and Italian.
• Lake Nemi. The WWW page of the Lake Nemi Ship Reconstruction Project. Includes some pictures of and a fairly detailed background to the project, including a lot of administrative details. This site was very slow when I tried to access it.
• Licenza. An interesting site devoted to diggings at the villa of the Roman poet Horace. In addition to the actual archaeological section, which is sparse in both pictures and text but thorough nonetheless, there is a Study Center" which contains (in addition to the only actual site plan I could find) such things as audio files of Horace's poetry being read, and video clips from a documentary about the dig.
• Lugnano in Teverina. Excavations of a large Roman villa complex and later cemetery. An excellent site report, with a good site plan, and more than 40 photos and drawings. A nice thing about the pictures is that come in 2 sizes, each on its own page, which drastically cuts down the time it takes to load the page. This site is VERY well put-together.
• Ostia. A very brief report on the excavations, with no pictures, but some bibliographical information.
• Pompeii (Forum). The WWW site of the "Pompeii Forum Project," designed essentially to reconstruct the entire forum complex at Pompeii. An enormous site, with lengthy descriptions and excellent pictures and plans. Must be checked out.
• Pompeii (Regio I, Insula 9). A brief, unillustrated description of finds (including a possible cock-pit) in a house and garden in Pompeii.
• Pompeii (Regio VI, Insula 1). A very large and well-illustrated report on this field-school excavation. Also includes information about participating in the field school. Very much worth checking out!
• Rome (Monte Testaccio I). A brief report on the "amphora hill" in Rome includes several pictures, a bibliography, and information on obtaining publications related to the excavation. In Catalan, English, Italian, or Spanish.
• Rome (Monte Testaccio II). The official Web site of the exposition based on the above-listed dig. This is an incredible site, if you have a browser that lets you see frames. There are excellent photos, drawings, archeometric tables, and explanations of the amphorae uncovered. Very much worth an extended look! Currently available only in Italian and Spanish, with Catalan and English versions under construction.
• Valesio. Excavation of Roman baths at Valesio. There's a concise site description, with notes, a bibliography, and many references to Vitruvius. The focus of the page is reconstructing the baths, so there's no information on small finds, unfortunately. However, there are a some quite nice plans and a good elevation.

Jordan

• Petra. An excellent site, detailing excavations of the "Great" Temple site in the Nabataean capital city. There are good plans and pictures of the excavations (particularly if you follow the "Temple Tour" link), backed up by detailed descriptions. Interestingly, lengthy discussion of work done away from the actual archaeological site is included. These WWW pages should definitely be explored.
• Umm el-Jimal. A VERY brief description of the excavation of 1st to 3rd century A.D. house is included in this larger site report concerning excavation of Byzantine remains. However, the report does indicate that the Roman era site is significant, so I decided to include it here.

Lebanon

• Beirut (Souk). Some Roman material at this site, with a couple of pictures and plans. Sections on Roman finds are quite easy to find. NOTE: I couldn't get through to the server the last time I tried to look at this site, so I make no promises that it's still up.

Libya

• Leptis Magna. Though still under construction, this is still a fairly spectacular site. It includes a good "zoomable" map of the city, and a virtual museum (most of the galleries are not yet open, but it does include a bathroom!!). There are other interesting (or soon-to-be-interesting) things to investigate as well.
• Leptis Magna (Hadrianic Baths). Not a field project per se, but rather an attempt (with fairly impressive results) to create a computer model of what the baths looked like in antiquity. Contains some (very large) pictures of the results, much information on how the project was carried out, and a bibliography. WARNING: You will not be able to access this site between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. NZT (GMT +12)!!

Luxembourg

• Goeblange-Meicher. Fairly interesting-looking excavations at a Gallo-Roman site. A good, concise site report is found here, along with a large site-map. Be sure to check out the associated page on Archaeology in Luxembourg! Available in English and German.
• Vichten. An account of the discovery and excavation of a superbly preserved 3rd century A.D. mosaic. Excellent (and I do mean "Excellent"!!) pictures. Available in English and French.

Scotland

• Newstead. Excavation and survey in and around a Roman fort. An excellent, detailed, set of pages, with good pictures. Only the 1993 prelim. report is available on the www at this time.

Spain

• Arva. A brief summary, with a bibliography and a couple of pictures, of the excavations of the Roman city of Arva. Available in Spanish and Catalan (neither of which I am terribly fluent in, hence the brevity of my summary).
• Calafell. A brief overview of the findings from a villa site near Tarragona. Some pictures and a bibliography included. Available in English, Spanish, and Catalan.
• Carteia. A very good site, including numerous pictures, maps, sections and plans accompanied by excellent text descriptions of the excavations and monuments of this Roman city in the province of Cadiz. Includes bibliography. In Spanish.
• Seville Province. The homepage of the Ciudades Romanas Project. This project involved research on the locations of Roman towns, and sought to create a predictive model of townsites in Seville Province (A good bit of it, I will confess, went over my head). Much of the research was based on the intervisibility of (i.e. lines of sight between) the various towns. Lots of interesting pictures promised, although this site is still under construction.

Tunisia

• Leptiminus. A small site, containing an overview of the excavations at Leptiminus, along with a few black-and-white pictures.

Turkey

• Yavlac. A ton of information about the archaeology of the ancient city of Pisidian Antioch. The site focuses mainly on the architecture of the city, and contains numerous excellent photographs. There is also some interesting historical information about St. Paul's visit to Pisidian Antioch.
• Zeugma. Not so much a site report as a discussion of the dangers posed to the site of the ancient city by looting and the construction of a new dam. Includes a history of the site, pictures (thumbnail and full-size available), and a map. Please note: This page is more than a year old, and some of the info may now be out of day.

Ukraine

• Chersonesus. A page concerning research into the ancient Greco-Roman city, a city home to, among others, a group of diaspora Jews. The pages include a fairly large number of pictures (available in two sizes), and information about the pre-dig research. Unfortunately, I could not find a site report, although one is promised in the near future. Given that that promise was made in 1995, I'm not sure that this is a live site, but it's worth checking out anyway.

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