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Zusammenstellung der Tafeln von Alexandre Simon Stefan. Aus dem französischen übersetzt von Birgi... more Zusammenstellung der Tafeln von Alexandre Simon Stefan. Aus dem französischen übersetzt von Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer, Dieter Hörnig sowie Fritz Mitthof und Julian Gabriel Schneider.
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Reviews : P. GROS, CRAI 2015, 4, p. 1761-1763 : M. M. MCCARTY, ClR 66, 2016, 2, p. 556-558 ; H. D... more Reviews :
P. GROS, CRAI 2015, 4, p. 1761-1763 : M. M. MCCARTY, ClR 66, 2016, 2, p. 556-558 ; H. DUCHÊNE, L’Histoire 422, avril 2016, p. 22-23 ; F. S. KLEINER, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2016.09.32 ; J.-CH. BALTY, AntCl 85, 2016, p. 616-618 ; M. BECKMANN, JRA 29, 2016, p. 770-772 ; A. PALLADINO, Histara, 2017-04-19 (http:/histara.sorbonne.fr./cr.php?cr=2701) ; L. BORGIES, Latomus 76, 2017, p. 565-566 ; M. GALINIER, REA 119, 2017, 1, p. 219-222 (contrairement à l’allégation de cet auteur, l’édition française n’est pas épuisée) ; id., RA 2017, 2, p. 423-426 ; L. BIANCHI, ArchCl 70, 2019, p. 757-767.
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Papers by Alexandre Simon STEFAN
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, 2023
OSCAR BELVEDERE, Giovanni Uggeri e la metodologia di indagine sul campo in topografia antica CAIR... more OSCAR BELVEDERE, Giovanni Uggeri e la metodologia di indagine sul campo in topografia antica CAIROLI F. GIULIANI, Terremoto e ossatura murale, parametri spesso travisati o trascurati nell'architettura archeologica ALEXANDER V. PODOSSINOV, Influence of periplic literature on the coastal road system of the Tabula Peutingeriana ANNAPAOLA MOSCA, Paesaggi interconnessi. Tra Pianura e Alpi PIER LUIGI DALL'AGLIO, CARLOTTA FRANCESCHELLI, Le buone pratiche per la gestione delle acque indesiderabili nella città romana: alcuni casi di studio GIULIO CIAMPOLTRINI, PAOLA RENDINI, Antichi e recenti ritrovamenti per la via romana da Lucca a Firenze RICCARDO CHELLINI, Note topografiche sui tular fiesolani e sulla Strada Maremmana di Fonte Santa GIUSEPPE SCARDOZZI, Lo stadio di Hierapolis di Frigia: un monumento fantasma nella valle del Lykos English Summaries Note to contributors Dinu Adamesteanu (1913-2004) ALEXANDRE SIMON STEFAN* Le legs multiforme de Dinu Adamesteanu repose non seulement sur sa très riche carrière d'archéologue de terrain, qui l'a porté des côtes du Pont Euxin à celles de Sicile, de Grande Grèce ou de Césarée Maritime jusqu'au lointain Afghanistan, mais aussi sur ses dons remarquables de fondateur d'institutions, de musées ou de réserves archéologiques, d'organisateur de recherches et de promoteur infatigable de collaborations internationales. Enfin, il a aussi endossé la figure du maître pour tous ceux, nombreux, qui se considèrent ses élèves parmi ses collaborateurs et ses étudiants. Le bilan du savant est inséparable d'un destin que résume parfaitement l'épitaphe que lui-même avait choisie: "Dacoromano per nascita / Cittadino del mondo per vocazione / Lucano per scelta".
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, 2020, XXX, p. 333-338, 2020
Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography. Addendum. A Roman marching camp in the hinter... more Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography. Addendum. A Roman marching camp in the hinterland ?
Leveled rectangular earthworks revealed by aerial photographs near the ancient site of Histria have recently been attributed to a Roman legionary marching camp. The lack of rounded corners and of well-configured gates, the course of a river that cuts the rampart, as well as the inappropriate relief lead the Author to refute the Roman character of the work and to consider it as a modern pastoral enclosure.
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, XXIX, 2019, p. 9-92, 2 pl. hors texte, 2019
Alexandre Simon STEFAN, Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography: palaeo-environment, u... more Alexandre Simon STEFAN, Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography: palaeo-environment, urban configurations, harbor installations, tumular necropolis, roads to the chôra (7th Century BC – 7th Century AD)
Systematically excavated since 1914, Histria has been also periodically photographed since 1929 from the air and constitutes in classical European archeology a significant, although little known, example of the use of aerial surveys. After his first discoveries obtained by this method in the reconstitution of the successive stages of the organization of the urban space, the Author was able to develop as head of the Archaeological Research Department of the National Museum of History in Bucharest (1978 – 1987) a dynamic program, comprising several vertical missions at low altitude and the realization of photogrammetric mapping over a large area around the fortified center. Presented now for the first time, the results of these researches bring some important advances. They concern first of all the reconstitution of the ancient natural environment, strongly modified thereafter, where the tracks of some fifteen roads converging towards the city are identified and accurately fixed on the map. Aerial photographs specify also the location of almost 6000 tumuli erected during nearly a millennium outside the walls, some of which are remarkable for their size (more than 100 m in diameter). It appears that early on, the necropolis was surrounded by a mighty vallum and a ditch - an advanced protection of the city itself apparently used by two other Milesian colonies in the region (Orgamè and Olbia). The relief retains the contours of a circular inner harbor (cothon) and its outer harbor opens to the south, silted after the abandonment of the city, while east of the acropolis the aerial images show the outline of a powerful submerged structure, most likely the jetty of another port. The analysis of the orientations of a certain number of structures of the acropolis area offers the indices of an orthogonal urban plan from the older phases, extended towards the west at the time of the Early Roman wall. All these achievements and the precisions of the cartography allow a critical analysis and a better understanding of the data provided by a century of archaeological excavations and enable to better distinguish the many configurations of the urban space and of its periphery throughout the long history of the city.
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, XXVI, 2016, p. 159-198., 2016
At the same time with his series of well-known works on Pompei, the architect F. Mazois was about... more At the same time with his series of well-known works on Pompei, the architect F. Mazois was about to complete an important publication on the monuments of Poseidonia-Paestum at the time of his premature death in 1826. The present study analyses the 106 documents attached to this project, preserved in the Cabinet des Estampes – Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and remained unpublished until today. In addition to the nine pages of text, these are drawings of the various stages of his architectural surveys, from the sketches on the spot, with measurements and annotations, to the final plates for the in folio volume. The most important part, which is reserved for the two archaic temples (of Hera and Athena) and the temple of Classic period ("Great Temple", "of Poseidon"), exceeds in precision, in details and in quality of graphic expression the surveys made at the same time by Delagardette (1798/1799), Wilkins (1807) or Labrouste (1828). The work of Mazois is thus revealed as a significant, unfortunately unknown, chapter in the history of research on Doric architecture. Mazois' surveys are also valuable for recording the state of the site and some monuments before the destructions and modern overlays, including the general topography of the town walls and the external environment, the inner part of the East Gate and the two bridges in front of the North Gate, several streets, the location of the peribolos east of the southern sanctuary and its entrance, a small temple dismantled thereafter, the amphitheater, an aqueduct, as well as the drawing of an inscription today lost. All the data delivered by the Mazois archives are confronted with the achievements of the research carried out between 1991-2006 by the Author in Poseidonia-Paestum.
Gli antecedenti 1. Carta delle regioni carpatico-egee in epoca classica ed ellenistica. Tratteggi... more Gli antecedenti 1. Carta delle regioni carpatico-egee in epoca classica ed ellenistica. Tratteggio blu-i Geti; tratteggio nero-estensione del regno macedone all'epoca di Filippo II; C-cataratte; SR-ubicazione di Sarmizegetusa Regia I secolo a.C.-I secolo d.C. (Illustrazione dell'autore).
Les Géto-Daces et les enseignes romaines. Les Daces chasseurs de têtes. Octavien/Auguste, hér... more Les Géto-Daces et les enseignes romaines.
Les Daces chasseurs de têtes.
Octavien/Auguste, héritier du projet de bellum Geticum de César, face à M. Licinius Crassus, vainqueur effectif des Gètes : les spolia opima, les signa recepta et la tombe de Caecilia Metella.
Les Romains chasseurs de têtes.
Les monuments d'Adamclissi, témoins de clades et de triomphes romains : mais où et quand ?
Le suicide de Longinus, chef de guerre romain sur le front dace : mort volontaire d'un général vaincu.
La commémoration des viri qui pro republica morte occubuerunt.
Quelques constantes de la guerre romaine : le suicide - une alternative courante à la captivité romaine ; les Romains et les sanctuaires des ennemis vaincus.
378 CHRONIQUE . 65 Photographies numériques d'A. S. Stefan.
sur le culte, cf. M. Torelli, Paestum romana, Paestum, 1999, p. 58. 8 C'est le cas de celui qui s... more sur le culte, cf. M. Torelli, Paestum romana, Paestum, 1999, p. 58. 8 C'est le cas de celui qui se trouve à 18 m de l'angle nord-est du temple périptère classique, signalé pour la première fois par P. C. Sestieri, FA, XI, 1956, pl. B; voir supra p. 456-457.
tion voulue de la nouvelle porte et un rapport presque orthogonal entre celle-ci et le segment te... more tion voulue de la nouvelle porte et un rapport presque orthogonal entre celle-ci et le segment terminal de la plateia Nord-Sud. La cour intérieure communiquait avec la ville par une baie unique, pourvue de deux battants, comme le prouve la saillie d'une pièce qui resserre le passage (fig. 28); deux murs de cette dernière étaient percés de petites portes afin de permettre une circulation piétonale entre la ville et la cour intérieure, même en situation de porte fermée. Ce schéma est attesté à l'identique pour la porte méridionale, tandis que la porte Ouest offre des variantes plus élaborées.
Zusammenstellung der Tafeln von Alexandre Simon Stefan. Aus dem französischen übersetzt von Birgi... more Zusammenstellung der Tafeln von Alexandre Simon Stefan. Aus dem französischen übersetzt von Birgit Lamerz-Beckschäfer, Dieter Hörnig sowie Fritz Mitthof und Julian Gabriel Schneider.
https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/shop/30669/die-trajanssaeule
Reviews : P. GROS, CRAI 2015, 4, p. 1761-1763 : M. M. MCCARTY, ClR 66, 2016, 2, p. 556-558 ; H. D... more Reviews :
P. GROS, CRAI 2015, 4, p. 1761-1763 : M. M. MCCARTY, ClR 66, 2016, 2, p. 556-558 ; H. DUCHÊNE, L’Histoire 422, avril 2016, p. 22-23 ; F. S. KLEINER, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2016.09.32 ; J.-CH. BALTY, AntCl 85, 2016, p. 616-618 ; M. BECKMANN, JRA 29, 2016, p. 770-772 ; A. PALLADINO, Histara, 2017-04-19 (http:/histara.sorbonne.fr./cr.php?cr=2701) ; L. BORGIES, Latomus 76, 2017, p. 565-566 ; M. GALINIER, REA 119, 2017, 1, p. 219-222 (contrairement à l’allégation de cet auteur, l’édition française n’est pas épuisée) ; id., RA 2017, 2, p. 423-426 ; L. BIANCHI, ArchCl 70, 2019, p. 757-767.
www.persee.fr/issue/efr\_0223-5099\_2005\_mon\_353\_1
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, 2023
OSCAR BELVEDERE, Giovanni Uggeri e la metodologia di indagine sul campo in topografia antica CAIR... more OSCAR BELVEDERE, Giovanni Uggeri e la metodologia di indagine sul campo in topografia antica CAIROLI F. GIULIANI, Terremoto e ossatura murale, parametri spesso travisati o trascurati nell'architettura archeologica ALEXANDER V. PODOSSINOV, Influence of periplic literature on the coastal road system of the Tabula Peutingeriana ANNAPAOLA MOSCA, Paesaggi interconnessi. Tra Pianura e Alpi PIER LUIGI DALL'AGLIO, CARLOTTA FRANCESCHELLI, Le buone pratiche per la gestione delle acque indesiderabili nella città romana: alcuni casi di studio GIULIO CIAMPOLTRINI, PAOLA RENDINI, Antichi e recenti ritrovamenti per la via romana da Lucca a Firenze RICCARDO CHELLINI, Note topografiche sui tular fiesolani e sulla Strada Maremmana di Fonte Santa GIUSEPPE SCARDOZZI, Lo stadio di Hierapolis di Frigia: un monumento fantasma nella valle del Lykos English Summaries Note to contributors Dinu Adamesteanu (1913-2004) ALEXANDRE SIMON STEFAN* Le legs multiforme de Dinu Adamesteanu repose non seulement sur sa très riche carrière d'archéologue de terrain, qui l'a porté des côtes du Pont Euxin à celles de Sicile, de Grande Grèce ou de Césarée Maritime jusqu'au lointain Afghanistan, mais aussi sur ses dons remarquables de fondateur d'institutions, de musées ou de réserves archéologiques, d'organisateur de recherches et de promoteur infatigable de collaborations internationales. Enfin, il a aussi endossé la figure du maître pour tous ceux, nombreux, qui se considèrent ses élèves parmi ses collaborateurs et ses étudiants. Le bilan du savant est inséparable d'un destin que résume parfaitement l'épitaphe que lui-même avait choisie: "Dacoromano per nascita / Cittadino del mondo per vocazione / Lucano per scelta".
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, 2020, XXX, p. 333-338, 2020
Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography. Addendum. A Roman marching camp in the hinter... more Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography. Addendum. A Roman marching camp in the hinterland ?
Leveled rectangular earthworks revealed by aerial photographs near the ancient site of Histria have recently been attributed to a Roman legionary marching camp. The lack of rounded corners and of well-configured gates, the course of a river that cuts the rampart, as well as the inappropriate relief lead the Author to refute the Roman character of the work and to consider it as a modern pastoral enclosure.
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, XXIX, 2019, p. 9-92, 2 pl. hors texte, 2019
Alexandre Simon STEFAN, Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography: palaeo-environment, u... more Alexandre Simon STEFAN, Histria. Aerial photographs and general topography: palaeo-environment, urban configurations, harbor installations, tumular necropolis, roads to the chôra (7th Century BC – 7th Century AD)
Systematically excavated since 1914, Histria has been also periodically photographed since 1929 from the air and constitutes in classical European archeology a significant, although little known, example of the use of aerial surveys. After his first discoveries obtained by this method in the reconstitution of the successive stages of the organization of the urban space, the Author was able to develop as head of the Archaeological Research Department of the National Museum of History in Bucharest (1978 – 1987) a dynamic program, comprising several vertical missions at low altitude and the realization of photogrammetric mapping over a large area around the fortified center. Presented now for the first time, the results of these researches bring some important advances. They concern first of all the reconstitution of the ancient natural environment, strongly modified thereafter, where the tracks of some fifteen roads converging towards the city are identified and accurately fixed on the map. Aerial photographs specify also the location of almost 6000 tumuli erected during nearly a millennium outside the walls, some of which are remarkable for their size (more than 100 m in diameter). It appears that early on, the necropolis was surrounded by a mighty vallum and a ditch - an advanced protection of the city itself apparently used by two other Milesian colonies in the region (Orgamè and Olbia). The relief retains the contours of a circular inner harbor (cothon) and its outer harbor opens to the south, silted after the abandonment of the city, while east of the acropolis the aerial images show the outline of a powerful submerged structure, most likely the jetty of another port. The analysis of the orientations of a certain number of structures of the acropolis area offers the indices of an orthogonal urban plan from the older phases, extended towards the west at the time of the Early Roman wall. All these achievements and the precisions of the cartography allow a critical analysis and a better understanding of the data provided by a century of archaeological excavations and enable to better distinguish the many configurations of the urban space and of its periphery throughout the long history of the city.
Rivista di Topografia Antica/Journal of Ancient Topography, XXVI, 2016, p. 159-198., 2016
At the same time with his series of well-known works on Pompei, the architect F. Mazois was about... more At the same time with his series of well-known works on Pompei, the architect F. Mazois was about to complete an important publication on the monuments of Poseidonia-Paestum at the time of his premature death in 1826. The present study analyses the 106 documents attached to this project, preserved in the Cabinet des Estampes – Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and remained unpublished until today. In addition to the nine pages of text, these are drawings of the various stages of his architectural surveys, from the sketches on the spot, with measurements and annotations, to the final plates for the in folio volume. The most important part, which is reserved for the two archaic temples (of Hera and Athena) and the temple of Classic period ("Great Temple", "of Poseidon"), exceeds in precision, in details and in quality of graphic expression the surveys made at the same time by Delagardette (1798/1799), Wilkins (1807) or Labrouste (1828). The work of Mazois is thus revealed as a significant, unfortunately unknown, chapter in the history of research on Doric architecture. Mazois' surveys are also valuable for recording the state of the site and some monuments before the destructions and modern overlays, including the general topography of the town walls and the external environment, the inner part of the East Gate and the two bridges in front of the North Gate, several streets, the location of the peribolos east of the southern sanctuary and its entrance, a small temple dismantled thereafter, the amphitheater, an aqueduct, as well as the drawing of an inscription today lost. All the data delivered by the Mazois archives are confronted with the achievements of the research carried out between 1991-2006 by the Author in Poseidonia-Paestum.
Gli antecedenti 1. Carta delle regioni carpatico-egee in epoca classica ed ellenistica. Tratteggi... more Gli antecedenti 1. Carta delle regioni carpatico-egee in epoca classica ed ellenistica. Tratteggio blu-i Geti; tratteggio nero-estensione del regno macedone all'epoca di Filippo II; C-cataratte; SR-ubicazione di Sarmizegetusa Regia I secolo a.C.-I secolo d.C. (Illustrazione dell'autore).
Les Géto-Daces et les enseignes romaines. Les Daces chasseurs de têtes. Octavien/Auguste, hér... more Les Géto-Daces et les enseignes romaines.
Les Daces chasseurs de têtes.
Octavien/Auguste, héritier du projet de bellum Geticum de César, face à M. Licinius Crassus, vainqueur effectif des Gètes : les spolia opima, les signa recepta et la tombe de Caecilia Metella.
Les Romains chasseurs de têtes.
Les monuments d'Adamclissi, témoins de clades et de triomphes romains : mais où et quand ?
Le suicide de Longinus, chef de guerre romain sur le front dace : mort volontaire d'un général vaincu.
La commémoration des viri qui pro republica morte occubuerunt.
Quelques constantes de la guerre romaine : le suicide - une alternative courante à la captivité romaine ; les Romains et les sanctuaires des ennemis vaincus.
378 CHRONIQUE . 65 Photographies numériques d'A. S. Stefan.
sur le culte, cf. M. Torelli, Paestum romana, Paestum, 1999, p. 58. 8 C'est le cas de celui qui s... more sur le culte, cf. M. Torelli, Paestum romana, Paestum, 1999, p. 58. 8 C'est le cas de celui qui se trouve à 18 m de l'angle nord-est du temple périptère classique, signalé pour la première fois par P. C. Sestieri, FA, XI, 1956, pl. B; voir supra p. 456-457.
tion voulue de la nouvelle porte et un rapport presque orthogonal entre celle-ci et le segment te... more tion voulue de la nouvelle porte et un rapport presque orthogonal entre celle-ci et le segment terminal de la plateia Nord-Sud. La cour intérieure communiquait avec la ville par une baie unique, pourvue de deux battants, comme le prouve la saillie d'une pièce qui resserre le passage (fig. 28); deux murs de cette dernière étaient percés de petites portes afin de permettre une circulation piétonale entre la ville et la cour intérieure, même en situation de porte fermée. Ce schéma est attesté à l'identique pour la porte méridionale, tandis que la porte Ouest offre des variantes plus élaborées.