Books by Riccardo Montalbano
Il volume, corredato da una carta archeologica in scala 1:1000, analizza l'assetto antico della z... more Il volume, corredato da una carta archeologica in scala 1:1000, analizza l'assetto antico della zona compresa tra via delle Muratte e il foro di Traiano.
Books (as editor) by Riccardo Montalbano
ArcheoFOSS XIV 2020: Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological resea... more ArcheoFOSS XIV 2020: Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research collects the proceedings of the fourteenth ArcheoFOSS international conference, held online due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book gathers seventeen papers on three principal topics, the main sessions of the conference: use and application of free/libre and open-source (FLOS) tools in archaeology; creation, use and promotion of open data and open formats in archaeology; and development and customization of FLOS software and hardware solutions for cultural heritage. Forty-one scholars of very diverse age, academic affiliation and geographic location, but all actively involved in the promotion of FLOS culture, open data and open science in digital archaeology and humanities, contribute. The volume is completed by a critical analysis of the contribution of these important annual meetings to the scientific and cultural activity of the ArcheoFOSS community. The opportunity offered by the pandemic-related difficulties to widen the geographical scope of the conference has been further boosted by the decision to adopt the English language for most of the papers, with the hope that this will extend the work of the ArcheoFOSS community far beyond the Italian national borders.
Papers by Riccardo Montalbano
Tutela & Restauro 2021 – Notiziario della Soprintendenza archeologia belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Firenze e le province di Pistoia e Prato, 2021
ArcheoFOSS 14 | 2020 edited by Julian Bogdani, Riccardo Montalbano, and Paolo Rosati; Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021
SITAR is a project by the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma that... more SITAR is a project by the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma that has changed the relationship between the institution and citizens as regards the knowledge, protection, enhancement and communication of the city's archaeological heritage. The need to open up to external users was taken into account when structuring the technological platform, so that the work carried out by the Soprintendenza could benefit the various communities that make up our society. SITAR-awarded with the Archaeological Heritage Prize 2021 by the European Archaeology Association (EAA)-has become a platform that provides open-data under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, characterized by a participatory approach thanks to which different types of users can interact with the institution, directly intervening in the process of creating and reviewing the data.
Il contributo mira a presentare una selezione di elementi di decorazione architettonica in marmo ... more Il contributo mira a presentare una selezione di elementi di decorazione architettonica in marmo rinvenuti durante lo scavo della cd. Coenatio Rotunda, presso la Vigna Barberini sul Palatino.
M. Serlorenzi, R. Montalbano, A. D'Andrea, SITAR: a new open-data infrastructure for a public archaeology of Rome, in J. Bogdani, R. Montalbano, P. Rosati (eds), ArcheoFOSS 14/2020. Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research, pp. 108-118 SITAR is a project by the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma that... more SITAR is a project by the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma that has changed the relationship between the institution and citizens as regards the knowledge, protection, enhancement and communication of the city’s archaeological heritage. The need to open up to external users was taken into account when structuring the technological platform, so that the work carried out by the Soprintendenza could benefit the various communities that make up our society. SITAR – awarded with the Archaeological Heritage Prize 2021 by the European Archaeology Association (EAA) – has become a platform that provides open-data under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, characterized by a participatory approach thanks to which different types of users can interact with the institution, directly intervening in the process of creating and reviewing the data.
Il contributo affronta il tema della viabilità urbana di Roma in età medio repubblicana da una du... more Il contributo affronta il tema della viabilità urbana di Roma in età medio repubblicana da una duplice prospettiva. Da un lato, evidenzia come l’approccio combinato delle fonti disponibili consenta di ricostruire indirettamente le percorrenze della città antica, anche in contesti per i quali non siano disponibili dati archeologici. Dall’altro lato, affronta la questione della strada come realtà fisica a partire da una selezione di contesti di scavo significativi e cronologicamente ben definiti. L’obiettivo è definire le caratteristiche costruttive delle strade urbane con specifico riferimento all’arco cronologico in esame e valutare se e in che modo l’utilizzo differenziato di tecniche e materiali impiegati possa riflettere le diverse funzioni e gerarchie degli assi viari cittadini.
This contribution addresses the theme of the urban road system in Rome in the middle Republican period from a twofold perspective. On the one hand, it highlights how the combined approach of the available sources makes it possible indirectly to reconstruct the routes of the ancient city, even in contexts for which no archaeological data are available. On the other hand, it addresses the question of the road as a physical reality starting from a selection of significant and chronologically well-defined excavation contexts. The aim is to define the construction characteristics
of urban roads with specific reference to the chronological period under examination, and to assess whether and how the differentiated use of techniques and materials used can reflect the different functions and hierarchies of the city’s roadways.
Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, 2020
The goal of this paper is to analyze the role and significance of the ambitus, a narrow open spac... more The goal of this paper is to analyze the role and significance of the ambitus, a narrow open space between properties, in the framework of the urban history of Rome from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. The author tackles several issues relating to this architectural feature – including its origin, function, size and the alleged gradual disappearance during the mid-Republican period –, taking into account not only the rich written documentation (literary, juridical and epigraphic), but also the archaeological evidence brought to the light by recent excavations.
The article aims at highlighting the complexity of the topographical reconstruction of the urban ... more The article aims at highlighting the complexity of the topographical reconstruction of the urban street network, particularly for the more ancient phases of the City. Starting from four case studies concerning the Republican Campus Martius, the paper explores some conceptual and methodological issues and illustrates how the information coming from different kind of sources (archaeological, textual and iconographic) can be profitably combined.
G. Leoni, R. Montalbano, G. Ricci, M. Serlorenzi, “La scoperta della fabbrica di Volpato”, in M. Serlorenzi, M. Barbanera, A. Pinelli (a cura di), Il classico si fa pop. Di scavi, copie e altri pasticci, Milano 2018, pp. 32-46 (ISBN: 9788891820730).
Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 58, 2019
Literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources testify to the presence of Greek gymnasia in pre-... more Literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources testify to the presence of Greek gymnasia in pre-Roman Italy. This paper investigates the political and cultural reasons that led to the adoption of a Greek lifestyle in 'non Greek' contexts, most notably the embracing of the gymnasial ideology. Examining several case studies in two different cultural contexts, namely the Brettian city of Petelia and the Samnite cities of Abella, Pom-peii, and Cuma, it is comparatively assessed how the elite of these cities negotiated Greek gymnasial ideology. It is argued that strategies ranged from fully embracing the gymnasium as both an institution and building type to selective emulation of only certain features.
Literarische, epigraphische und archäologische Quellen bezeugen die Existenz griechischer Gymnasia im vorrömischen Italien. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die politischen und kul-turellen Gründe, die zur Übernahme griechischen Lebens-stils, allen voran der Gymnasiums-Ideologie, in diesen nicht-griechischen Kontexten geführt haben können. Anhand von Fallstudien in zwei verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten, der brettischen Stadt Petelia und den Samnitischen Städte Abella, Pompeji und Cuma, wird analysiert, wie die Elite dieser Städte griechische Gymnasiums-Ideologie ausgehandelt hat. Es wird gezeigt, dass Strategien von der vollständigen Über-nahme des Gymnasiums als Institution und Bautyp bis zur selektiven Nachahmung ausgewählter Charakteristika reichte.
Il contributo mira a offrire un aggiornato inquadramento dell'assetto urbanistico della porzione ... more Il contributo mira a offrire un aggiornato inquadramento dell'assetto urbanistico della porzione di città antica posta a ridosso delle regioni VI e VII, in considerazione dei recenti ritrovamenti effettuati in occasione dello scavo della nuova Rinascente di via del Tritone e dei Due Macelli.
Studi Romani, LXII (2014), pp. 51-70
Il ritrovamento della corrispondenza inedita tra Bernardo Filipponi e i membri della Commissione ... more Il ritrovamento della corrispondenza inedita tra Bernardo Filipponi e i membri della Commissione delle Belle arti, che ha per oggetto la scoperta in situ della famosa statua di Saturnino (oggi conservata al Museo Gregoriano Profano) e delle relative iscrizioni, ha posto le basi per un riesame della documentazione archeologica del settore meridionale della regio VII via Lata a Roma, con un focus particolare sull’edilizia abitativa.
▪ R. MONTALBANO, “Templum Pacis: i documenti d’archivio degli scavi del XIX secolo”, in R. Meneghini, R. Rea (a cura di), Le biblioteche nel mondo classico. Catalogo della mostra (Roma, 21 febbraio-5 ottobre 2014), pp. 248-254 (ISBN: 8837098553)., Mar 2014
Il contributo mira a riorganizzare e contestualizzare topograficamente una serie di ritrovamenti,... more Il contributo mira a riorganizzare e contestualizzare topograficamente una serie di ritrovamenti, effettuati tra la metà dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, pertinenti all'architettura e alla decorazione del Templum Pacis.
Il Pincio, Giardino di Roma. Atti del workshop, 10-11 Dicembre 2014, Villa Medici,) Palazzo Massimo, Roma a cura di P. Fortini e S. Trevisan, 2015
Forma Urbis Romae, arco di Settimio Severo al Foro, Porta degli Argentari, Porta Asinaria, Terme ... more Forma Urbis Romae, arco di Settimio Severo al Foro, Porta degli Argentari, Porta Asinaria, Terme di Caracalla.
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This contribution addresses the theme of the urban road system in Rome in the middle Republican period from a twofold perspective. On the one hand, it highlights how the combined approach of the available sources makes it possible indirectly to reconstruct the routes of the ancient city, even in contexts for which no archaeological data are available. On the other hand, it addresses the question of the road as a physical reality starting from a selection of significant and chronologically well-defined excavation contexts. The aim is to define the construction characteristics
of urban roads with specific reference to the chronological period under examination, and to assess whether and how the differentiated use of techniques and materials used can reflect the different functions and hierarchies of the city’s roadways.
Literarische, epigraphische und archäologische Quellen bezeugen die Existenz griechischer Gymnasia im vorrömischen Italien. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die politischen und kul-turellen Gründe, die zur Übernahme griechischen Lebens-stils, allen voran der Gymnasiums-Ideologie, in diesen nicht-griechischen Kontexten geführt haben können. Anhand von Fallstudien in zwei verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten, der brettischen Stadt Petelia und den Samnitischen Städte Abella, Pompeji und Cuma, wird analysiert, wie die Elite dieser Städte griechische Gymnasiums-Ideologie ausgehandelt hat. Es wird gezeigt, dass Strategien von der vollständigen Über-nahme des Gymnasiums als Institution und Bautyp bis zur selektiven Nachahmung ausgewählter Charakteristika reichte.
This contribution addresses the theme of the urban road system in Rome in the middle Republican period from a twofold perspective. On the one hand, it highlights how the combined approach of the available sources makes it possible indirectly to reconstruct the routes of the ancient city, even in contexts for which no archaeological data are available. On the other hand, it addresses the question of the road as a physical reality starting from a selection of significant and chronologically well-defined excavation contexts. The aim is to define the construction characteristics
of urban roads with specific reference to the chronological period under examination, and to assess whether and how the differentiated use of techniques and materials used can reflect the different functions and hierarchies of the city’s roadways.
Literarische, epigraphische und archäologische Quellen bezeugen die Existenz griechischer Gymnasia im vorrömischen Italien. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die politischen und kul-turellen Gründe, die zur Übernahme griechischen Lebens-stils, allen voran der Gymnasiums-Ideologie, in diesen nicht-griechischen Kontexten geführt haben können. Anhand von Fallstudien in zwei verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten, der brettischen Stadt Petelia und den Samnitischen Städte Abella, Pompeji und Cuma, wird analysiert, wie die Elite dieser Städte griechische Gymnasiums-Ideologie ausgehandelt hat. Es wird gezeigt, dass Strategien von der vollständigen Über-nahme des Gymnasiums als Institution und Bautyp bis zur selektiven Nachahmung ausgewählter Charakteristika reichte.
MACHINA Technology of Ancient Rome is the result of an educational workshop held in the year 2009 in preparation of the homonymous exhibition that was displayed in the Museum of Roman Civilization EUR Rome. The scientific work was carried out almost entirely by students BA, MA, the Scuola di Specializzazione and PhD Fellows in Archeology of the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza University of Rome, under the scientific direction of prof. M. Galli, and was conceived and edited together with G. Pisani Sartorio.
indice di affidabilità. Per l’area in esame (Fori Boario, Olitorio e Campo Marzio), un contributo straordinario proviene dai dati archivistici, che – integrati con le altre fonti documentarie disponibili – costituiscono una fonte imprescindibile per la comprensione della progressiva strutturazione dello spazio urbano. Al fine di rilevare le potenzialità e i limiti di utilizzo di questa tipologia di dati in relazione alle aree urbane di contesti a continuità di vita, verranno utilizzati casi studio esemplificativi, utili a discutere aspetti di carattere metodologico.
registry dedicated to Rome’s heritage, free for all to access and consult.
Since the beginning, the main goal of the project was to provide to the
community involved in the study and preservation of the archaeological
and historical heritage of Rome with a useful support for the process of
urban co-planning. For this reason, unlike other similar experiences at national and international level, the representation is no longer symbolic, but the archaeological data are processed in their “planimetric reality”, after an accurate georeferencing process carried out by professional archaeologists. Today, the system brings together several types of data, ranging from archival documentation to the single archaeological features found during the archaeological excavations.
After 13 years from the development of the first web application, from
May 2018 a system re-engineering was started, aimed at merging the three original applications (WEBAIS, SIGEDO, AMBIENTE TUTELA) into a single system.
The infrastructure is now hosted on the GARR cloud (based on the OS Open Stack) and has a modular architecture, so that each service is allocated on specific “container”, as shown in fig. 1. This choice stems from a twofold requirement: on the one hand, to optimize the response to individual requests, and on the other to ensure a specific maintenance of the single services.
Among the main innovations is the creation of a Digital Library, which allows the user to explore the SITAR documentary heritage (maps, drawings, scientific reports), filtering the results through specific parameters (fig. 2).
The new Digital Library is served by the open source suite ELK: it uses ElasticSearch as a search engine, Logstash for the index creation and Kibana to generate an effective view on the data. The documents are scanned through OCR and the system can retrieve the keywords used to search within every single document.
The final objective of the new engineering was to align SITAR with the FAIR DATA philosophy and therefore to guarantee an easy and well documented data acquisition. For this reason, SITAR data can now be acquired by any user 1. through download in the main OPEN FORMATS (GEOJSON, GML2, GML3, KML; GEOTIFF, GEOTIFF8, SVG, CSV: fig. 3), 2. through specific requests to the dedicated GEOSERVER instance or, at an upper level, thanks to the REST services (fig. 4) . The publication of the API allows the users to dynamically exploit the SITAR dataset, negotiating the protocol and the format according to its specific needs.
Finally, it is worth noting that the postgres/postgis SITAR database – that currently stores 5.000 excavations, 25.000 archaeological features and 100.000 attachments – adopts CIDOC CRM Archaeo as semantic model and the data have been extracted and represented in RDF, using the XML language.
La difficoltà di un approccio organico al tema è certamente da ricondurre alla complessità del dossier documentario, cui partecipano fonti di natura eterogenea e caratterizzate da un differente indice di affidabilità. Il contributo intende pertanto proporre, da un lato, una riflessione metodologica sul tema della ricostruzione della viabilità antica in un contesto pluristratificato, ponendo l’accento sulla pluralità di fonti disponibile – da affrontare ciascuna secondo la propria specifica filologia – e sulla loro concreta possibilità di utilizzo; dall’altro, evidenziare una serie di criticità dovute alla natura estremamente frammentaria e discontinua dei dati.
Una giornata di confronto aperto sulle nuove funzionalità del Sistema e dei servizi open-data messi a disposizione a beneficio delle comunità scientifiche di riferimento, del mondo dell’impresa e dei cittadini, nel contesto più ampio del panorama regionale e nazionale.
The conference will be held on October 15-17, in the World Wide Web. More information is available at https://2020.archeofoss.org
Aperta la call for papers, workshops and Demos per la quattordicesima edizione del convegno internazionale ArcheoFOSS: Software, hardware, processi, dati e formati aperti nella ricerca archeologica, che si svolgerà online nei giorni 15, 16, 17 ottobre 2020.
Il convegno ci concentra su tre temi:
1. Uso e applicazione di strumenti Free/Libre ed Open source (FLOS) in archeologia
2. Produzione, uso e promozione di open data e open format in archeologia
3. Sviluppo e adattamento di strumenti software e hardware FLOS in ambito culturale
In breve:
- Il convegno, i workshop e le demo si svolgeranno online a causa della pandemia causata dal COVID-19
- Termine ultimo per l’invio degli abstract estesi: mezzanotte del 30 giugno 2020
-Termine ultimo per la notifica di accettazione delle proposte
- Termine ultimo per l’invio di proposte di workshop: mezzanotte del 30 giugno 2020
- Termine ultimo per la notifica di accettazione di workshop
- Termine ultimo per l’invio delle proposte di demo: mezzanotte del 31 agosto 2020
- Date del convegno: 15, 16, 17 ottobre 2020
- Informazioni: https://2020.archeofoss.org/
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