Fasti Online Documents and Research. The Journal of Fasti Online, 2022
This article is a preliminary publication of the results of the excavations and research at propr... more This article is a preliminary publication of the results of the excavations and research at proprietà Lolli and Colleoni 2011-2012, Villa Adriana, known as the Liceo area and often considered as a part of Hadrian’s Villa. The Liceo Project, which is the framework of this fieldwork, aims to document the archaeological remains and the topography of the area through digital documentation, archaeological excavation and prospection and understand its relation to the Imperial villa. The project has two core objects of study, the so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini with its ambulatorium and a recently excavated structure (Building A) that can be interpreted as a smaller villa with baths. The so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini has an enigmatic ambulatorium which originally gave the name to the area, Liceo. Building A was discovered in 2004, and the excavations carried out by the project have shown that the excavated structure had a basin. Water supply was abundant here: a cistern may have been connected with a large aqueduct of probable Hadrianic date which passes nearby. In addition, the end of a late Republican aqueduct, hewn out of the tufa rock, was discovered beneath Building A. The building had at least four different building phases: the first can be dated to the early Augustan period and the last to the Hadrianic period. In addition, the basin seems to have been reused in late Antiquity as a lime kiln. The spina-wall of the ambulatorium of the so-called Villa Lolli Paolini was cleaned of vegetation, and it became apparent that a double water channel was attached to the south side of it, continuing all the way to its double exedra in the west. The fact that the Hadrianic aqueduct mentioned above, which presumably lead water into Hadrian’s Villa, seems to begin behind the western exedra of the ambulatorium, raises interesting questions regarding where this water came from.
The study deals with the ancient town of Caleacte (Kale Akte, Calacte), modern Caronia, on the no... more The study deals with the ancient town of Caleacte (Kale Akte, Calacte), modern Caronia, on the north coast of Sicily. Information provided by ancient textual sources, epigraphy and archaeology on the economic conditions and framework of the site and its micro-region are presented in the first chapter. Production and exchange through a diachronic perspective of nearly 1,000 years is illustrated through the study of pottery, mainly transport amphorae but also fine ware and lamps, dating primarily to the late 4th c. BC-late 4th c. AD. The material and the amphora fabrics are presented in an illustrated catalogue, which constitutes one of the few detailed publications of Roman material, especially of amphorae, from Sicily. Transport amphorae functioned in Antiquity as containers for mainly wine, oil and fish products. They constitute one of the most valuable sources we possess for acquiring knowledge on ancient economy. Thin-section analysis is used as an important method for indicating...
• The Liceo Project was initiated in 2011 and aims to identify and document standing structures i... more • The Liceo Project was initiated in 2011 and aims to identify and document standing structures in the so-called Liceo area, immediately south of Hadrian's Villa. It furthermore aims to create a digital map of the area and its structures with the aid of GIS. Archaeological investigation at proprietà Lolli, Villa Adriana, began in 2004 with a limited excavation of a structure which was partly revealed. The structure, built on a slope on arched substructures had several rooms with black-and white mosaics and cocciopesto floors centered around a basin. The Liceo area was included by Piranesi in his map of Hadrian's Villa, but the structure has never been recorded before.
This paper examines the origins of the ancient urban settlement Kale Akte on the north coast of S... more This paper examines the origins of the ancient urban settlement Kale Akte on the north coast of Sicily, based on the extensive excavations and research carried out at Caronia and Caronia Marina over the last two decades. It is suggested that the name Kale Akte-'Fair Promontory'-was probably coined in Archaic times by Greek merchants and would have derived from the promontory with its harbour, an obvious landmark for the Greeks. The recently discovered Archaic harbour at Caronia Marina is regarded as a Sikel harbour, created as a maritime outlet for a Sikel settlement that must have existed on the hill-top of Caronia before the foundation by Ducetius. The archaeological finds suggest that the Sikel settlement was well acquainted with the Greek custom of the symposion. In the Archaic period, Kale Akte can be viewed as a 'middle ground' where traders of different ethnicities and cultural identity put differences aside in order to make a profit on trade. The topographical characteristics of the site are compared with the two other alleged foundations by Ducetius: Menai (Mineo) and Paliké. The hill-top of Caronia has close similarities with Mineo, but also with Cittadella, the precursor to Morgantina. Ducetius cannot have been the instigator behind the grand urban plan of Morgantina, since all his urban projects seem to have been on a relatively limited scale. The topographical situation of Kale Akte is also compared with that of the neighbouring cities Halaesa, Apollonia and Haluntium. However, the interests of these urban centres were dominated by territorial ambitions, while Kale Akte appears to have specialized in trade and maritime commerce from its inception. It is suggested that the harbour of Kale Akte in Roman times may well have served a much larger area than its own territory. The foundation of Kale Akte on the hill-top of Caronia is thought to have been undertaken by Ducetius with the consent of Syracuse, which was interested in founding a maritime trading post on this part of the coast, and was still under Sikel dominion. This would explain the open character of the settlement and the lack of any fortifications.
I. Kamenjarin and M. Ugarkovic (eds.) Exploring the neighbourhood. The Role of Ceramics in Understanding Place in the Hellenistic World Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of IARPotHP Kaštela, June 2017, 1st – 4th, Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, pp. 343-352, 2020
In the following, I will discuss new evidence for a central Dalmatian production of the main type... more In the following, I will discuss new evidence for a central Dalmatian production of the main types of Adriatic wine amphorae, mainly the Greco-Italic, Lamboglia 2 (L2) and Dressel 6A (Dr 6A) types, produced from the 3rd century B. C. to the 1st century A. D. Through xrf-analysis of amphora finds from the Dalmatian and Italian coasts, a case for a central Dalmatian production of these wine amphorae, situated on the island of Vis (Issa), is presented.
This paper focuses on the important trading post and Roman city Narona in the province Illyria/Da... more This paper focuses on the important trading post and Roman city Narona in the province Illyria/Dalmatia and its role as a gateway- and port community over a period of a millennium. The river harbour of Narona functioned in this period as a very important port for exchange between the Illyrian hinterland and the Mediterranean. A major theme is how the geographic situation of the harbour settlement was key to its strategic importance and how the latter varied over time due to varying political and economic conjunctures. The city had particular cultural characteristics as an inclusive, multi-cultural, “middle-ground” harbour settlement, attractive to merchants and freedmen but at the same time exclusive as seat of the Roman administration and later a Roman colony. The recent discovery of the importance of the central Dalmatian wine export from Issa and the ager of Narona and its consequences for the view of Narona as a port and commercial node has for the first time been integrated in this updated biography of a still little-known site.
Perspectives on ancient Greece. Papers in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens, ed. Schallin, A-L (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 8, 22), Stockholm 2013, 231-250.
Matters of Scale. Processes and courses of events in the past and the present. In: Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 56, 2012 (eds. N. M. Burström & F. Fahlander), Nov 2012
Svensk antikforskning vid Medelhavet. Gustaf VI Adolf och fältarkeologi i historiskt perspektiv (ed. F. Whitling), KVHAA Konferenser, 87, Stockholm 2014, 70-75.
Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory: Settlement, Trade and Production on the Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC–AD 500, University of British Columbia Studies in the Ancient World, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2020
This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and poli... more This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over the time-span of a thousand years. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed is the gradual population shift away from the hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock. The book is particularly important for the comprehensive analysis of the 1999–2004 excavations at the latter, with fresh interpretations of the function of the buildings excavated and their chronology, as well for reviewing the present state of our knowledge about Kale Acte/Calacte, and defining research questions for the future. The archaeological material at the heart of this study comes from excavations at the site conducted by the author. It is one of the few detailed publications from Sicily of Hellenistic and Roman amphora material. The conclusions about changing trends of commercial production and exchange will be of interest to those working on ceramic material elsewhere in Sicily and indeed further afield. The study also offers a fresh perspective of the economic history of ancient Sicily. The origins of Kale Akte and its alleged foundation by the exiled Sikel leader, Ducetius, in the fifth century BC, are also discussed in the light of the latest archaeological discoveries. An Italian summary of each chapter is also included.
Fasti Online Documents and Research. The Journal of Fasti Online, 2022
This article is a preliminary publication of the results of the excavations and research at propr... more This article is a preliminary publication of the results of the excavations and research at proprietà Lolli and Colleoni 2011-2012, Villa Adriana, known as the Liceo area and often considered as a part of Hadrian’s Villa. The Liceo Project, which is the framework of this fieldwork, aims to document the archaeological remains and the topography of the area through digital documentation, archaeological excavation and prospection and understand its relation to the Imperial villa. The project has two core objects of study, the so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini with its ambulatorium and a recently excavated structure (Building A) that can be interpreted as a smaller villa with baths. The so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini has an enigmatic ambulatorium which originally gave the name to the area, Liceo. Building A was discovered in 2004, and the excavations carried out by the project have shown that the excavated structure had a basin. Water supply was abundant here: a cistern may have been connected with a large aqueduct of probable Hadrianic date which passes nearby. In addition, the end of a late Republican aqueduct, hewn out of the tufa rock, was discovered beneath Building A. The building had at least four different building phases: the first can be dated to the early Augustan period and the last to the Hadrianic period. In addition, the basin seems to have been reused in late Antiquity as a lime kiln. The spina-wall of the ambulatorium of the so-called Villa Lolli Paolini was cleaned of vegetation, and it became apparent that a double water channel was attached to the south side of it, continuing all the way to its double exedra in the west. The fact that the Hadrianic aqueduct mentioned above, which presumably lead water into Hadrian’s Villa, seems to begin behind the western exedra of the ambulatorium, raises interesting questions regarding where this water came from.
The study deals with the ancient town of Caleacte (Kale Akte, Calacte), modern Caronia, on the no... more The study deals with the ancient town of Caleacte (Kale Akte, Calacte), modern Caronia, on the north coast of Sicily. Information provided by ancient textual sources, epigraphy and archaeology on the economic conditions and framework of the site and its micro-region are presented in the first chapter. Production and exchange through a diachronic perspective of nearly 1,000 years is illustrated through the study of pottery, mainly transport amphorae but also fine ware and lamps, dating primarily to the late 4th c. BC-late 4th c. AD. The material and the amphora fabrics are presented in an illustrated catalogue, which constitutes one of the few detailed publications of Roman material, especially of amphorae, from Sicily. Transport amphorae functioned in Antiquity as containers for mainly wine, oil and fish products. They constitute one of the most valuable sources we possess for acquiring knowledge on ancient economy. Thin-section analysis is used as an important method for indicating...
• The Liceo Project was initiated in 2011 and aims to identify and document standing structures i... more • The Liceo Project was initiated in 2011 and aims to identify and document standing structures in the so-called Liceo area, immediately south of Hadrian's Villa. It furthermore aims to create a digital map of the area and its structures with the aid of GIS. Archaeological investigation at proprietà Lolli, Villa Adriana, began in 2004 with a limited excavation of a structure which was partly revealed. The structure, built on a slope on arched substructures had several rooms with black-and white mosaics and cocciopesto floors centered around a basin. The Liceo area was included by Piranesi in his map of Hadrian's Villa, but the structure has never been recorded before.
This paper examines the origins of the ancient urban settlement Kale Akte on the north coast of S... more This paper examines the origins of the ancient urban settlement Kale Akte on the north coast of Sicily, based on the extensive excavations and research carried out at Caronia and Caronia Marina over the last two decades. It is suggested that the name Kale Akte-'Fair Promontory'-was probably coined in Archaic times by Greek merchants and would have derived from the promontory with its harbour, an obvious landmark for the Greeks. The recently discovered Archaic harbour at Caronia Marina is regarded as a Sikel harbour, created as a maritime outlet for a Sikel settlement that must have existed on the hill-top of Caronia before the foundation by Ducetius. The archaeological finds suggest that the Sikel settlement was well acquainted with the Greek custom of the symposion. In the Archaic period, Kale Akte can be viewed as a 'middle ground' where traders of different ethnicities and cultural identity put differences aside in order to make a profit on trade. The topographical characteristics of the site are compared with the two other alleged foundations by Ducetius: Menai (Mineo) and Paliké. The hill-top of Caronia has close similarities with Mineo, but also with Cittadella, the precursor to Morgantina. Ducetius cannot have been the instigator behind the grand urban plan of Morgantina, since all his urban projects seem to have been on a relatively limited scale. The topographical situation of Kale Akte is also compared with that of the neighbouring cities Halaesa, Apollonia and Haluntium. However, the interests of these urban centres were dominated by territorial ambitions, while Kale Akte appears to have specialized in trade and maritime commerce from its inception. It is suggested that the harbour of Kale Akte in Roman times may well have served a much larger area than its own territory. The foundation of Kale Akte on the hill-top of Caronia is thought to have been undertaken by Ducetius with the consent of Syracuse, which was interested in founding a maritime trading post on this part of the coast, and was still under Sikel dominion. This would explain the open character of the settlement and the lack of any fortifications.
I. Kamenjarin and M. Ugarkovic (eds.) Exploring the neighbourhood. The Role of Ceramics in Understanding Place in the Hellenistic World Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of IARPotHP Kaštela, June 2017, 1st – 4th, Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, pp. 343-352, 2020
In the following, I will discuss new evidence for a central Dalmatian production of the main type... more In the following, I will discuss new evidence for a central Dalmatian production of the main types of Adriatic wine amphorae, mainly the Greco-Italic, Lamboglia 2 (L2) and Dressel 6A (Dr 6A) types, produced from the 3rd century B. C. to the 1st century A. D. Through xrf-analysis of amphora finds from the Dalmatian and Italian coasts, a case for a central Dalmatian production of these wine amphorae, situated on the island of Vis (Issa), is presented.
This paper focuses on the important trading post and Roman city Narona in the province Illyria/Da... more This paper focuses on the important trading post and Roman city Narona in the province Illyria/Dalmatia and its role as a gateway- and port community over a period of a millennium. The river harbour of Narona functioned in this period as a very important port for exchange between the Illyrian hinterland and the Mediterranean. A major theme is how the geographic situation of the harbour settlement was key to its strategic importance and how the latter varied over time due to varying political and economic conjunctures. The city had particular cultural characteristics as an inclusive, multi-cultural, “middle-ground” harbour settlement, attractive to merchants and freedmen but at the same time exclusive as seat of the Roman administration and later a Roman colony. The recent discovery of the importance of the central Dalmatian wine export from Issa and the ager of Narona and its consequences for the view of Narona as a port and commercial node has for the first time been integrated in this updated biography of a still little-known site.
Perspectives on ancient Greece. Papers in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens, ed. Schallin, A-L (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 8, 22), Stockholm 2013, 231-250.
Matters of Scale. Processes and courses of events in the past and the present. In: Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 56, 2012 (eds. N. M. Burström & F. Fahlander), Nov 2012
Svensk antikforskning vid Medelhavet. Gustaf VI Adolf och fältarkeologi i historiskt perspektiv (ed. F. Whitling), KVHAA Konferenser, 87, Stockholm 2014, 70-75.
Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory: Settlement, Trade and Production on the Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC–AD 500, University of British Columbia Studies in the Ancient World, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2020
This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and poli... more This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over the time-span of a thousand years. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed is the gradual population shift away from the hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock. The book is particularly important for the comprehensive analysis of the 1999–2004 excavations at the latter, with fresh interpretations of the function of the buildings excavated and their chronology, as well for reviewing the present state of our knowledge about Kale Acte/Calacte, and defining research questions for the future. The archaeological material at the heart of this study comes from excavations at the site conducted by the author. It is one of the few detailed publications from Sicily of Hellenistic and Roman amphora material. The conclusions about changing trends of commercial production and exchange will be of interest to those working on ceramic material elsewhere in Sicily and indeed further afield. The study also offers a fresh perspective of the economic history of ancient Sicily. The origins of Kale Akte and its alleged foundation by the exiled Sikel leader, Ducetius, in the fifth century BC, are also discussed in the light of the latest archaeological discoveries. An Italian summary of each chapter is also included.
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Villa Adriana, known as the Liceo area and often considered as a part of Hadrian’s Villa. The Liceo Project, which is the framework of this fieldwork, aims to document the archaeological remains and the topography of the area through digital documentation, archaeological excavation and prospection and understand its relation to the Imperial villa. The project has two core objects of study, the so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini with its ambulatorium and a recently excavated structure (Building A) that
can be interpreted as a smaller villa with baths. The so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini has an enigmatic ambulatorium which originally gave the name to the area, Liceo. Building A was discovered in 2004, and the excavations carried out by the project have shown that the excavated structure had a basin. Water supply was abundant here: a cistern may have been connected with a large aqueduct of probable Hadrianic date which passes nearby. In addition, the end of a late Republican aqueduct, hewn out of the tufa rock, was discovered beneath Building A. The building had at least four different building phases: the first can be dated to the early Augustan period and the last to the Hadrianic period. In addition, the basin seems to have been reused in late Antiquity as a lime kiln. The spina-wall of the ambulatorium of the so-called Villa Lolli Paolini was cleaned of vegetation, and it became apparent that a double water channel was attached to the south side of it, continuing all the way to its double exedra in the west. The fact that the Hadrianic aqueduct mentioned above, which presumably lead water into Hadrian’s Villa, seems to begin behind the western exedra of the ambulatorium, raises interesting questions regarding where this water came from.
production of these wine amphorae, situated on the island of Vis (Issa), is presented.
Books by Adam Lindhagen
Villa Adriana, known as the Liceo area and often considered as a part of Hadrian’s Villa. The Liceo Project, which is the framework of this fieldwork, aims to document the archaeological remains and the topography of the area through digital documentation, archaeological excavation and prospection and understand its relation to the Imperial villa. The project has two core objects of study, the so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini with its ambulatorium and a recently excavated structure (Building A) that
can be interpreted as a smaller villa with baths. The so-called Villa of the Lolli Paolini has an enigmatic ambulatorium which originally gave the name to the area, Liceo. Building A was discovered in 2004, and the excavations carried out by the project have shown that the excavated structure had a basin. Water supply was abundant here: a cistern may have been connected with a large aqueduct of probable Hadrianic date which passes nearby. In addition, the end of a late Republican aqueduct, hewn out of the tufa rock, was discovered beneath Building A. The building had at least four different building phases: the first can be dated to the early Augustan period and the last to the Hadrianic period. In addition, the basin seems to have been reused in late Antiquity as a lime kiln. The spina-wall of the ambulatorium of the so-called Villa Lolli Paolini was cleaned of vegetation, and it became apparent that a double water channel was attached to the south side of it, continuing all the way to its double exedra in the west. The fact that the Hadrianic aqueduct mentioned above, which presumably lead water into Hadrian’s Villa, seems to begin behind the western exedra of the ambulatorium, raises interesting questions regarding where this water came from.
production of these wine amphorae, situated on the island of Vis (Issa), is presented.