CHIUDI

Month: July 2023

Subject
Ruins on the right of the Via Appia Antica. The composition depicts two men one seated and one standing as they explore the landscape and monumental ruins.

Accession Number. 2015.742.5
Watercolor over graphite
Carlo Labruzzi, Rome 1748 – 1817 Perugia
1789
42.8 × 55.2 cm

Placement
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (storage)

Credits
The Met Collection

References
Andrea de Rosa and Barbara Jatta, La Via Appia nei disegni di Carlo Labruzzi alla Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, 2013, p. 265.

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Subject
View of the stone pavement of the Via Appia, from “Le Antichità Romane”.

Accession Number. 2012.136.862.2
Prints
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Mogliano Veneto (?) 1720 – 1778 Rome
1756
52 x 38.7 cm

Insciptions
Top left: III. VII / 119
(View of the ancient Via Appia, running under the walls already described in the tables of the Ustrino, now covered by its ruins.
A: Solid street level before applying the filling material (around 7 cm) composed of lime pozzolana and flint chips; the flints are strongly fixed above it.
B: They are cut below in the shape of spearhead.
C: Other flints are put every 2 metres like wedges to press and tighten them.
D: The upper layer was probably used by people riding and getting off their horses and by wayfarers to rest. This part and the lower one are placed over a big infill wall made of flint chips larger than the previous.)
Lower right: Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.

Placement
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (storage)

Credits
The Met Collection

References
John Wilton-Ely Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Alan Wofsy, San Francisco, 1994.

MISITI, Maria Cristina; SCALONI, Giovanna (ed.), Giambattista Piranesi: sognare il sogno impossibile, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Roma, 2022, libro multimedia.

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Subject
Fragment of a sarcophagus’ gabled lid with angular acroterion with theatrical mask.

Accession number 22.M322-1.190.
White marble, relief sculpture.
Height cm 15; width cm 40; depth cm 2.4.
Beginning of 4th cent. A.D.

Provenance
Uncertain provenance between the 8th and the 9th mile of the Via Appia Antica.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, p. 481.

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Subject
Fragment of pediment with relief scene probably belonging to a funerary monument

Accession number 22.M322-1.7.
Marble, chiseling.
Max. height cm 16.1; max. width cm 35; depth cm 2.4.
Late 3rd-4th cent. A.D.


Provenance
5th-6th mile of the Via Appia Antica, in the so called Orazi’s tomb.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, p. 462.

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Subject
Three playing dice made of bone.

Accession number 22.M322-1.4.
Bone, rub-up, engraving.
Side cm 0.8; side cm 0.7; longer side cm 1.1; smaller side cm 1.
Intact.
Roman age.

Provenance
5th-6th mile of the Via Appia Antica, in the so called Orazi’s tomb.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, p. 459.

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Subject
Male torso belonging to a sculpture smaller than the human size. The upper and lower part are missing.

Accession number 575995
Pentelic marble, all-round.
Cm 24 x 15 x 11.
Fragmentary with scratch and abrasion.
2nd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Thermal area of Villa dei Quintili, in a tiepidarium service room.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, p. 427.

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Subject
Brick with medium lunate mark on two lines.

Accession number 22.M322-4.92.
Terracotta, printing technique.
Mark: diameter cm 10, letters height cm 1.8, signum height cm 5.
Fragmentary.
40-155 A.D (Steinby 1974-75); 160-169 A.D. (Helen 1976).

Provenance
Capo di Bove thermal bath.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, p. 417.

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Subject
Apodal bowl decorated with dilute cobalt blue and manganese.

Accession number 22.M322-2.181.
Glazed inside and colourless outside; rose-brown mixture.
Edge diameter cm 28.2, bottom cm 19.8, height cm 5.8 (max. cm 6.4 in the deformed part).
Partially recomposed with fragments.
15th cent., first half.

Provenance
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, 3rd mile of the Via Appia Antica.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, pp. 366-367.

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Subject
Bearded head belonging to an artifact, later used as building stone.

Accession number 22.M322-2.179.
White marble, relief sculpture with engraving.
Preserved max. height cm 38.5; min. depth cm 3.5 – max. cm 5. Letters cm 2.7 – 2.9.
Incomplete and fragmentary.
Last quarter of 3rd cent. A.D.

Provenance
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, 3rd mile of the Via Appia Antica.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, pp. 365-366.

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Subject
Fragment of funerary torch; only the terminal part is preserved.

Accession number 277545
White Carrara marble.
Height cm 40; max. diameter cm 14.5.
Without the support body. Surface washed away and worn. Chipping along the margins.
Imperial age.

Provenance
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, 3rd mile of the Via Appia Antica.

Placement
Appia Antica Archaeological Park (storage).

Credits
Archive of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park (pictures of Giulio Archinà).

References
Patrimonium Appiae: depositi emersi, catalogo della mostra curated by di F.R. Paolillo, M. Pontisso, S. Roascio, Quingentole 2022, pp. 336-337.

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