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Books by Carlo Rescigno
L e due immagini di Apollo e Diana, inferiori al vero (h 147 cm, 1:0,8, maggiore di due terzi dal... more L e due immagini di Apollo e Diana, inferiori al vero (h 147 cm, 1:0,8, maggiore di due terzi dal vero e di tre piedi), dominano ancora oggi, in copia, la corte del tempio di Apollo a Pompei ( ). Gli originali, come noto, sono parte della coorte di bronzi vesuviani del Museo Nazionale di Napoli (figg. 2-3).
Cuma, il Tempio di Giove e la terrazza superiore dell’acropoli. Contributi e documenti, a cura di Carlo Rescigno, Edizioni Osanna, Venosa 2012.
Immaginando città, catalogo della mostra, Arte’m, Napoli 2014
-Deliciae Ficitiles IV. Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy: Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes, a cura di P. Lulof e C. Rescigno, Oxbow Books, Oxford 2011
-Carta Archeologia del percorso beneventano del Regio Tratturo e del Comune di Morcone, a cura di L. La Rocca e C. Rescigno, Quaderni di Oebalus II, 2010
-Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, Catalogo Generale, voll. 1 e 2, a cura di F. Zevi, F. Demma, E. Nuzzo, C. Rescigno, C. Valeri, Electa Napoli 2008
-N. Valenza, C. Rescigno, Cuma. Studi sulla Necropoli (scavi Stevens 1878-1896), Supplementi e Monografie della rivista “Archeologia Classica”, 2010
-C. Rescigno, Le colline di Senise. Il territorio tra la fiumarella S. Arcangelo e il fosso Bomberto, ATTA-X, 2001 suppl.: Carta Archeologica della Valle del Sinni.2
-C. Rescigno, Tetti campani. Età arcaica: Cuma, Pitecusa e gli altri contesti, Roma 1998
Papers by Carlo Rescigno
Artigiani per Apollo: documenti rituali dalle botteghe della piazza ellenistica di Pompei
Il Pittore C alla guerra di Troia. Un vaso cumano del Museo di Baia e il suo rinvenimento
The AD 79 Vesuvius eruption: stratigraphy, lithofacies variations and impact of the pyroclastic current deposits within the archaeological sites of Pompeii and Stabiae (southern Italy)
<p>Plinian eruptions are powerful explosive volcanic events that impact large areas with cu... more <p>Plinian eruptions are powerful explosive volcanic events that impact large areas with cubic kilometers of magma emplaced as pyroclastic material accumulated in thick blankets around the volcanic vents. The violence of the emplacement mechanism (i.e., fallout or pyroclastic density currents, PDC) and the sudden burial of the landscape, make these types of eruptions extremely dangerous. Aiming to fully understand these phenomena, an accurate reconstruction of the physical behaviour and the historical record of a volcano is critical as starting point for the assessment of volcanic hazard. In this scenario an excellent case is the worldwide-known Plinian AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, which destroyed Roman towns with large effects preserved in different sites around the volcano. This study reports the results of a collaboration between the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the University of Napoli Federico II to document the stratigraphic sequence and the type and extent of damage and victims buried under meters of pyroclastic material within the Pompeii and Stabiae archaeological sites. A systematic survey of well exposed outcrops along the recent excavations front allowed us to study in detail the facies variations of the different PDC stratigraphic units and how their distribution is affected even by urban structures. At Pompeii, the stratified ash PDC succession ranges in thickness from few tens of centimetres to two metres and shows considerable vertical and lateral variations in its sedimentological features. The layer associated with the most destructive impact on the Roman buildings shows down-current variation in thickness (0 to 330 cm) and texture. Where it is less than 30 cm thick, the deposit is fine-grained and thinly stratified, with few rounded pumice clasts scattered inside the matrix. Where it thickens, the lower part is rich in coarse pumice lapilli and locally shows well-developed stratifications, while the upper part shows an internal arrangement of alternating layers of fine and coarse ash, forming progressive bedforms. Upwards, the sequence is made up of a succession of plane-parallel ash layers with rare pumice lapilli clasts and diffuse accretionary lapilli. This ash sequence is interstratified with four well-sorted, thin lithic-rich layers that exhibit mantling structures of fall deposits. All PDC layers, except the lowermost, are dispersed across the entire Pompeii area, although some are locally missing as a result of the erosive action of the following PDC. At Stabiae, the ash PDC sequence is 83 cm thick. In few rooms of the Roman villa the ash deposits thicken up to 150 cm. Most of the ash layers identified at Pompeii are recognized also at Stabiae. In the upper part of the sequence a new PDC layer, never reported at Pompeii, is here documented for the first time. Damages are documented inside the more destructive ash layer and even in the upper ash layers, providing new insights about the risk assessment in distal areas.</p>
Norba : santuario di Giunone Lucina : appunti topografici
Apollo e Diana. Peripezie di scavo e fortuna museale di due bronzi pompeiani
ROMA.: Tetti DI Terracotta Dalle Pendici Nord-Orientali Del Palatino
Il santuario del Fosso dell’Incastro (Ardea). Le terrecotte architettoniche di fase arcaica
Introduction to Deliciae Fictiles V
Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and Workshops
The sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii: new geophysical and archaeological investigations
Groma. Documenting Archaeology, Apr 1, 2021
The paper discusses recent and integrated investigations in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii, w... more The paper discusses recent and integrated investigations in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii, which contribute to the overall understanding of the diachronic evolution of this sacred place, from the archaic period to the eruption of AD 79. High-resolution geophysical surveys have been interpreted in comparison with a new reading of the publication of Maiuri's excavations and the most recent excavations. The latest research offers significant additional information, not only on the constructive episodes of the architectural complex and the urban landscape in which it is inserted, but also on aspects related to the cult of Apollo and the associated rituality.
Spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric studies to determine the production technology of the VI BC Zeus Enthroned statue (Paestum, Italy) and Pre-Roman technology transfer
This work summarizes the spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric study of the most important terraco... more This work summarizes the spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric study of the most important terracotta statue of Poseidonia-Paestum (Italy), the so-called Zeus Enthroned (VI sec. BC). The selected analytical strategy combines the mineralogical and molecular information provided by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman analysis with the elemental data obtained from X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) and Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled to Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (SEM/EDS). To shed light on the raw materials used to create and decorate this unique artwork, the analytical results gathered in this study helped disclosing the applied production technology. As suggested by the detected mineral assemblages, the body was prepared in two steps, using calcareous clay (CC) rich in Mg- and Fe- minerals as raw materials. The inner core and the outer depurated layers were both fired in oxidizing conditions but reaching different temperatures (≥900 °C and 850-900 °C respectively). The statue was decorated by firing manganese- (jacobsite MnFe2O4) and iron- (hematite Fe2O3) oxides in oxidizing conditions. Knowing that the decoration techniques based on the use of Mn-oxides were mastered by Etruscans rather than by Ancient Greeks, the obtained results suggest a transfer of production technology across borders, thus providing an additional clue about the flourishing commercial and cultural exchanges occurred between Greek colonies and Italic pre-Roman societies.
L e due immagini di Apollo e Diana, inferiori al vero (h 147 cm, 1:0,8, maggiore di due terzi dal... more L e due immagini di Apollo e Diana, inferiori al vero (h 147 cm, 1:0,8, maggiore di due terzi dal vero e di tre piedi), dominano ancora oggi, in copia, la corte del tempio di Apollo a Pompei ( ). Gli originali, come noto, sono parte della coorte di bronzi vesuviani del Museo Nazionale di Napoli (figg. 2-3).
Cuma, il Tempio di Giove e la terrazza superiore dell’acropoli. Contributi e documenti, a cura di Carlo Rescigno, Edizioni Osanna, Venosa 2012.
Immaginando città, catalogo della mostra, Arte’m, Napoli 2014
-Deliciae Ficitiles IV. Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy: Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes, a cura di P. Lulof e C. Rescigno, Oxbow Books, Oxford 2011
-Carta Archeologia del percorso beneventano del Regio Tratturo e del Comune di Morcone, a cura di L. La Rocca e C. Rescigno, Quaderni di Oebalus II, 2010
-Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, Catalogo Generale, voll. 1 e 2, a cura di F. Zevi, F. Demma, E. Nuzzo, C. Rescigno, C. Valeri, Electa Napoli 2008
-N. Valenza, C. Rescigno, Cuma. Studi sulla Necropoli (scavi Stevens 1878-1896), Supplementi e Monografie della rivista “Archeologia Classica”, 2010
-C. Rescigno, Le colline di Senise. Il territorio tra la fiumarella S. Arcangelo e il fosso Bomberto, ATTA-X, 2001 suppl.: Carta Archeologica della Valle del Sinni.2
-C. Rescigno, Tetti campani. Età arcaica: Cuma, Pitecusa e gli altri contesti, Roma 1998
Artigiani per Apollo: documenti rituali dalle botteghe della piazza ellenistica di Pompei
Il Pittore C alla guerra di Troia. Un vaso cumano del Museo di Baia e il suo rinvenimento
The AD 79 Vesuvius eruption: stratigraphy, lithofacies variations and impact of the pyroclastic current deposits within the archaeological sites of Pompeii and Stabiae (southern Italy)
<p>Plinian eruptions are powerful explosive volcanic events that impact large areas with cu... more <p>Plinian eruptions are powerful explosive volcanic events that impact large areas with cubic kilometers of magma emplaced as pyroclastic material accumulated in thick blankets around the volcanic vents. The violence of the emplacement mechanism (i.e., fallout or pyroclastic density currents, PDC) and the sudden burial of the landscape, make these types of eruptions extremely dangerous. Aiming to fully understand these phenomena, an accurate reconstruction of the physical behaviour and the historical record of a volcano is critical as starting point for the assessment of volcanic hazard. In this scenario an excellent case is the worldwide-known Plinian AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, which destroyed Roman towns with large effects preserved in different sites around the volcano. This study reports the results of a collaboration between the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the University of Napoli Federico II to document the stratigraphic sequence and the type and extent of damage and victims buried under meters of pyroclastic material within the Pompeii and Stabiae archaeological sites. A systematic survey of well exposed outcrops along the recent excavations front allowed us to study in detail the facies variations of the different PDC stratigraphic units and how their distribution is affected even by urban structures. At Pompeii, the stratified ash PDC succession ranges in thickness from few tens of centimetres to two metres and shows considerable vertical and lateral variations in its sedimentological features. The layer associated with the most destructive impact on the Roman buildings shows down-current variation in thickness (0 to 330 cm) and texture. Where it is less than 30 cm thick, the deposit is fine-grained and thinly stratified, with few rounded pumice clasts scattered inside the matrix. Where it thickens, the lower part is rich in coarse pumice lapilli and locally shows well-developed stratifications, while the upper part shows an internal arrangement of alternating layers of fine and coarse ash, forming progressive bedforms. Upwards, the sequence is made up of a succession of plane-parallel ash layers with rare pumice lapilli clasts and diffuse accretionary lapilli. This ash sequence is interstratified with four well-sorted, thin lithic-rich layers that exhibit mantling structures of fall deposits. All PDC layers, except the lowermost, are dispersed across the entire Pompeii area, although some are locally missing as a result of the erosive action of the following PDC. At Stabiae, the ash PDC sequence is 83 cm thick. In few rooms of the Roman villa the ash deposits thicken up to 150 cm. Most of the ash layers identified at Pompeii are recognized also at Stabiae. In the upper part of the sequence a new PDC layer, never reported at Pompeii, is here documented for the first time. Damages are documented inside the more destructive ash layer and even in the upper ash layers, providing new insights about the risk assessment in distal areas.</p>
Norba : santuario di Giunone Lucina : appunti topografici
Apollo e Diana. Peripezie di scavo e fortuna museale di due bronzi pompeiani
ROMA.: Tetti DI Terracotta Dalle Pendici Nord-Orientali Del Palatino
Il santuario del Fosso dell’Incastro (Ardea). Le terrecotte architettoniche di fase arcaica
Introduction to Deliciae Fictiles V
Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and Workshops
The sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii: new geophysical and archaeological investigations
Groma. Documenting Archaeology, Apr 1, 2021
The paper discusses recent and integrated investigations in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii, w... more The paper discusses recent and integrated investigations in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Pompeii, which contribute to the overall understanding of the diachronic evolution of this sacred place, from the archaic period to the eruption of AD 79. High-resolution geophysical surveys have been interpreted in comparison with a new reading of the publication of Maiuri's excavations and the most recent excavations. The latest research offers significant additional information, not only on the constructive episodes of the architectural complex and the urban landscape in which it is inserted, but also on aspects related to the cult of Apollo and the associated rituality.
Spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric studies to determine the production technology of the VI BC Zeus Enthroned statue (Paestum, Italy) and Pre-Roman technology transfer
This work summarizes the spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric study of the most important terraco... more This work summarizes the spectroscopic-assisted archaeometric study of the most important terracotta statue of Poseidonia-Paestum (Italy), the so-called Zeus Enthroned (VI sec. BC). The selected analytical strategy combines the mineralogical and molecular information provided by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman analysis with the elemental data obtained from X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) and Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled to Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (SEM/EDS). To shed light on the raw materials used to create and decorate this unique artwork, the analytical results gathered in this study helped disclosing the applied production technology. As suggested by the detected mineral assemblages, the body was prepared in two steps, using calcareous clay (CC) rich in Mg- and Fe- minerals as raw materials. The inner core and the outer depurated layers were both fired in oxidizing conditions but reaching different temperatures (≥900 °C and 850-900 °C respectively). The statue was decorated by firing manganese- (jacobsite MnFe2O4) and iron- (hematite Fe2O3) oxides in oxidizing conditions. Knowing that the decoration techniques based on the use of Mn-oxides were mastered by Etruscans rather than by Ancient Greeks, the obtained results suggest a transfer of production technology across borders, thus providing an additional clue about the flourishing commercial and cultural exchanges occurred between Greek colonies and Italic pre-Roman societies.
Textiles and Rituals in Cumaean Cremation Burials
Origini, 2017
From the earliest colonial times the necropolis of Cumae has been characterised by cremation buri... more From the earliest colonial times the necropolis of Cumae has been characterised by cremation burials, deposited in a bronze or silver urn and placed in a stone cist. This burial system, present in different iterations throughout time, is well known and widely discussed in the literature. The presence of textiles used to wrap the bones or metal containers is recorded in the early 19th century excavation reports and has been confirmed by subsequent research. This use of textiles has been traditionally explained in light of the Homeric descriptions of heroic funerals. This paper attempts to systematically collect the available evidence, and to compare the information on funerary ceremonies that are known from the literary sources, with the data provided by the current analysis of extant textiles. The data collected to date indicate a continuity of specific textile use within cremation burials of Archaic Cumae, which whilst mimicking a much older tradition, express very different social...
32. Roof Tiles and Bricks
The Chora of Metaponto 6
FOLD&R Fasti On Line Documents & Research, 269, 2012
A team from the Second University of Naples has been excavating the upper temple of the acropolis... more A team from the Second University of Naples has been excavating the upper temple of the acropolis of Cuma since 2010. The two campaigns have made it possible to redefine the chronology of the phases covered by the monument, bringing to light new structural phases and dating those already visible. The re-examination of old and new finds have also allowed us to open a new discussion of the dedication of the temples and the ritual function of the so-called temple of Jove in the context of a renewed topographic approach to the antiquities of the acropolis.
“Testa ritratto di principe imperiale”, in La memoria ritrovata. Tesori recuperati dall’Arma dei Carabinieri, Roma 2014, pp. 94-95
“ ‘Dalla Fabbrica del Partenone’: un’antefissa ateniese a Napoli”, cds.
“Lo spazio delle madri. Edifici di culto e architetture di un santuario campano antico”, in Annali del Museo Campano, cds.
“Da Ausoni a Osci. Intrecci identitari nella Campania degli ‘Italici’: metodi e documenti, in Atti del LIV Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulla Magna Grecia – Ibridazione ed integrazione in Magna Grecia – Forme modelli e dinamiche, Taranto, 25-28 settembre 2014, cds.