15 January 2024
Aula Manlio Simonetti
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, (CU003, 3rd floor)
Sapienza University of Roma
Info: julian.bogdani@uniroma1.it
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Presentation
The on-field archaeological activities have much accelerated in various areas of Epirus in the last decades, and are producing an important progress of our knowledge of many aspects of the region, such as settlement distribution and land occupation, the definition of the urban landscapes, the organisation of defensive strategies, territory control and fortification, the funerary and religious spheres, etc. Lesser attention, considering the available publications, has been put on the analysis of the residential complexes, and this is not due to the lack of archaeological evidence, which is sometimes quite exceptional. Houses of different typologies, scale and prestige have been excavated and documented in recent years in large, fully urban centres such as Phoinike and Antigonea, and in minor sites such as Çuka e Ajtoit (Cestria). The rural landscape, as well, preserves evidences of small settlements equipped with monumental towers and other fortification elements. These have traditionally been interpreted as fortified farmhouses, underlining their economical function connected to agricultural and pastoral intensive exploitation of the chora. Among these stand out the structures preserved at Malathrea, a Hellenistic tetrapyrgos enlarged in Roman times and those of Mesopotamos near Ephyra in Thesprotia, erroneously interpreted for many years as the famous sanctuary of the Nekyomanteion. Exceptional architectural models, forged and diffused by the Macedonian dynasty are at the base of many of these residences that seem to integrate ‘palatial’ shapes and functions.
The workshop aims at offering a discussion table to share new excavation and research results and fostering a fruitful dialog on models, functions, chronologies, transformations and interpretation. It aims at setting the ground for an integrated understanding of the phenomenon of residential architecture in Hellenistic and Roman Epirus.
Contacts and information
The workshop is organised by:
- the Joint Archaeological Project of Sapienza University of Rome and Albanian Archaeological Institute of Tirana in Çuka e Ajtoit (Albania), in collaboration with
- the PhD School of Archaeology of Sapienza University of Rome.
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Programme
09:30-10:00
Welcome addresses:
- Gaetano Lettieri, Director of Dept. SARAS, Sapienza University of Rome
- Anila Bitri Lani, Ambassador of the Albanian Republic in Rome
- Federico di Giovanni, DGDP, Ufficio VI – Cooperazione culturale in ambito multilaterale, missioni archeologiche. Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
- Paolo Carafa, Deputy Rector for Archaeological Heritage, Sapienza University of Rome
10:00 - 10:20
Enrico Giorgi, Anna Gamberini, Dhimitër Çondi
La casa dei due peristili a Phoinike. Un'esempio di una residenza di rappresentanza di età ellenistica e i suoi sviluppi in età romana
10:20 - 10:40
Michael Benfatti, Belisa Muka
La casa degli intonaci di Phoinike. Definizione e sviluppi di modelli architettonici e decorativi
10:40 - 11:00
Roberto Perna, Sabina Veseli, Samuele Rocchi
Urban topography and residential architecture in Antigonea: new considerations
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50
Riccardo Carmenati, Ludovica Xavier de Silva
New data from the excavation at house 4 of Antigonea
11:50 - 12:10
Julian Bogdani, Albana Meta
New researches in the so-called Palace of Çuka e Ajtoit
12:10 - 12:30
Björn Forsén
Production and trade of Roman tegulae in Epirus
12:30 - 13:00
Discussion
13:00 - 15:00
Launch break
15:00 - 15:20
Gian Michele Gerogiannis
L’edilizia residenziale in Molossia in epoca ellenistica: stato della conoscenza e problemi aperti
15:20 -15:40
Francesco Maria Ferrara
Oikia, baris, basileion: l'architettura domestica in Macedonia alla luce delle testimonianze archeologiche e letterarie
15:40 - 16:00
Saimir Shpuza
Illyrian aristocratic practices. An example from the ongoing archaeological research at Bushat (Albania).
16:00 - 16:20
Giuseppe Lepore, Belisa Muka
Le cosiddette case sacre tra Epiro e Sicilia
16:20 - 16:40
Paolo Carafa
Rural and Urban Residential Architecture: Form Epirus to Latium
16:40 - 17:00
Discussion and conclusions
