Oscar Belvedere
Full Professor of Ancient Topography (SSD L-ANT /09) at the Department “Culture and Society” of University of Palermo, teaches "ancient topography" and "topography and town planning of the ancient world" in the master courses of Archaeology and Sciences of Antiquity. Member of the teaching staff of PhD Course in Cultural Heritage Sciences. Component of the scientific committees of the archaeological magazines, "Journal of Ancient Topography", "Orizzonti" and "Agri Centuriati", and the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Greek Archeology (Archeopress, Oxford).
He currently conducts research activity in the fields of ancient topography and archaeology of landscapes and within the Greek and Roman urban culture and town-planning and Greek housing culture. He devoted numerous works to the methodology of archaeological survey, to archaeological remote sensing and to the definition of GIS dedicated to ancient topography and landscape archeology, as well as to the ceramics archaeometry. He was coordinator of U.O. of Palermo for several PRINs (Projects of National Interest) from 1999 to 2007 and scientific director of numerous research projects with the Department of BB.CC.AA., the Archaeological Park of Agrigento and the Tourism Department of the Sicilian Region. Within international collaborations, he participated in research projects with the “Centre Camille Jullian” of the University Aix-Marseille and IPHES of Tarragona (Spain).
Address: Dipartimento Culture e Società.
Viale delle Scienze, ed. 15
I - 90128 PALERMO
He currently conducts research activity in the fields of ancient topography and archaeology of landscapes and within the Greek and Roman urban culture and town-planning and Greek housing culture. He devoted numerous works to the methodology of archaeological survey, to archaeological remote sensing and to the definition of GIS dedicated to ancient topography and landscape archeology, as well as to the ceramics archaeometry. He was coordinator of U.O. of Palermo for several PRINs (Projects of National Interest) from 1999 to 2007 and scientific director of numerous research projects with the Department of BB.CC.AA., the Archaeological Park of Agrigento and the Tourism Department of the Sicilian Region. Within international collaborations, he participated in research projects with the “Centre Camille Jullian” of the University Aix-Marseille and IPHES of Tarragona (Spain).
Address: Dipartimento Culture e Società.
Viale delle Scienze, ed. 15
I - 90128 PALERMO
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Four areas of Uggeri’s research are considered: his work on the territory of Camarina which he undertook from his youth using innovative approaches; second, his studies of ancient road systems for which he developed a comprehensive methodology, adopted by all scholars after him; third, his research on itineraries and cartographic sources; and fourth, his lifelong interest in Mediterranean navigation and maritime routes. Uggeri’s approach is that of the topographer who studies peripli and pilot books in their geographical and topographical contexts from the point of view of the traveler, in contrast to scholars of ancient navigation who consider them the result of the sailor’s vision of the coast, and therefore as eminently descriptive works. Lastly, we mention his studies on Byzantine Sicily, especially those on the new defensive system of castra where, using toponymy as his starting point and with close attention to the archaeological data, he attempts to outline the new territorial organization from the second half of the seventh century onwards and from the fall of Carthage to AD 827.
The consideration of these various topics pays due attention both to recent methodological approaches and advances in research, and to the innovative and remarkable contributions owed to Uggeri.
KEYWORDS: Giovanni Uggeri, methodology of ancient topography, ancient topography, ancient Sicily, Camarina, ancient road network.
houses, table wares, convivial meals · After a re-examination of the 5th century BC housing
culture at Himera in comparison with the housing culture of the same period in Athens, four
Athenian red-figured and black glazed pottery assemblages are examined by comparing them
with similar contexts from housing districts in Himera, in order to reconstruct as far as possible,
the dinner services for convivial meals that involved the consumption of wine, both in formal
meetings, both in everyday contexts. Finally, the stratigraphic context of five red-figured craters
found in Himera is taken into consideration, re-examining the associations with other ceramic
finds with the aim of reconstructing their contexts of use and the functions of the rooms where
they were found.
Keywords · Himera, 5th Century BC, Context, Material Culture.
Riassunto · Dopo un riesame della cultura abitativa imerese del v sec. a.C. a confronto con
quella documentata ad Atene, si prendono in considerazione quattro contesti ceramici ateniesi
confrontandoli con similari contesti di Himera, allo scopo di ricostruire nella misura possibile i
servizi da tavola destinati ad attività conviviali che prevedessero il consumo di vino, sia in occasione
di riunioni formali, sia in contesti quotidiani. Infine, si riesamina il contesto di rinvenimento di
cinque crateri a figure rosse ritrovati a Himera nell’abitato, riconsiderando le associazioni con altri
reperti ceramici al fine di ricostruire i modi di uso e le funzioni dei vani in cui sono stati ritrovati.
Parole chiave · Himera, v sec. a.C., contesti, cultura materiale.
of the city in 409 BC, we examine the “port district” across the river, analysing the settlement characteristics and the functions
of the buildings, as delineated by the excavators a few years ago. We come to the conclusion that the “neighbourhood” can be
interpreted as a proasteion ateichiston, a real projection of the town outside the walls, with more complex values than a simple
commercial district. The comparison with the proasteia of Syracuse allows us to outline the complexity of the reasons that justify
the projection of the cities beyond the walls and also the polyvalence of the term, which probably served to indicate other forms of
projection in the territory, such as the presence of ceramic workshops, dispersed farmhouses or peripheral sanctuaries.
Il titolo del seminario con i suoi termini binari, città e territorio, monumentalizzazione ed economia, crisi e sviluppo vuole riflettere la complessità della situazione dell’isola in età romana. Non una dicotomia tra i vari aspetti presi in esame, ma una loro dialettica, tra il consolidarsi di una situazione poleografica diversa, e nuovi assetti territoriali. La cui conseguenza sono il costituirsi di un nuovo paesaggio, profondamente diverso dal precedente, e di un nuovo assetto economico. Crisi e sviluppo, pertanto, non più visti in alternativa, come momenti e periodi che si alternano e succedono l’uno dopo l’altro nel tempo, ma come fattori operanti contemporaneamente in una realtà complessa sia dal punto di vista sociale ed economico, sia da quello urbano e territoriale.
Il volume è scaricabile in open access dal sito dell'editore UniPa Press
Four areas of Uggeri’s research are considered: his work on the territory of Camarina which he undertook from his youth using innovative approaches; second, his studies of ancient road systems for which he developed a comprehensive methodology, adopted by all scholars after him; third, his research on itineraries and cartographic sources; and fourth, his lifelong interest in Mediterranean navigation and maritime routes. Uggeri’s approach is that of the topographer who studies peripli and pilot books in their geographical and topographical contexts from the point of view of the traveler, in contrast to scholars of ancient navigation who consider them the result of the sailor’s vision of the coast, and therefore as eminently descriptive works. Lastly, we mention his studies on Byzantine Sicily, especially those on the new defensive system of castra where, using toponymy as his starting point and with close attention to the archaeological data, he attempts to outline the new territorial organization from the second half of the seventh century onwards and from the fall of Carthage to AD 827.
The consideration of these various topics pays due attention both to recent methodological approaches and advances in research, and to the innovative and remarkable contributions owed to Uggeri.
KEYWORDS: Giovanni Uggeri, methodology of ancient topography, ancient topography, ancient Sicily, Camarina, ancient road network.
houses, table wares, convivial meals · After a re-examination of the 5th century BC housing
culture at Himera in comparison with the housing culture of the same period in Athens, four
Athenian red-figured and black glazed pottery assemblages are examined by comparing them
with similar contexts from housing districts in Himera, in order to reconstruct as far as possible,
the dinner services for convivial meals that involved the consumption of wine, both in formal
meetings, both in everyday contexts. Finally, the stratigraphic context of five red-figured craters
found in Himera is taken into consideration, re-examining the associations with other ceramic
finds with the aim of reconstructing their contexts of use and the functions of the rooms where
they were found.
Keywords · Himera, 5th Century BC, Context, Material Culture.
Riassunto · Dopo un riesame della cultura abitativa imerese del v sec. a.C. a confronto con
quella documentata ad Atene, si prendono in considerazione quattro contesti ceramici ateniesi
confrontandoli con similari contesti di Himera, allo scopo di ricostruire nella misura possibile i
servizi da tavola destinati ad attività conviviali che prevedessero il consumo di vino, sia in occasione
di riunioni formali, sia in contesti quotidiani. Infine, si riesamina il contesto di rinvenimento di
cinque crateri a figure rosse ritrovati a Himera nell’abitato, riconsiderando le associazioni con altri
reperti ceramici al fine di ricostruire i modi di uso e le funzioni dei vani in cui sono stati ritrovati.
Parole chiave · Himera, v sec. a.C., contesti, cultura materiale.
of the city in 409 BC, we examine the “port district” across the river, analysing the settlement characteristics and the functions
of the buildings, as delineated by the excavators a few years ago. We come to the conclusion that the “neighbourhood” can be
interpreted as a proasteion ateichiston, a real projection of the town outside the walls, with more complex values than a simple
commercial district. The comparison with the proasteia of Syracuse allows us to outline the complexity of the reasons that justify
the projection of the cities beyond the walls and also the polyvalence of the term, which probably served to indicate other forms of
projection in the territory, such as the presence of ceramic workshops, dispersed farmhouses or peripheral sanctuaries.
Il titolo del seminario con i suoi termini binari, città e territorio, monumentalizzazione ed economia, crisi e sviluppo vuole riflettere la complessità della situazione dell’isola in età romana. Non una dicotomia tra i vari aspetti presi in esame, ma una loro dialettica, tra il consolidarsi di una situazione poleografica diversa, e nuovi assetti territoriali. La cui conseguenza sono il costituirsi di un nuovo paesaggio, profondamente diverso dal precedente, e di un nuovo assetto economico. Crisi e sviluppo, pertanto, non più visti in alternativa, come momenti e periodi che si alternano e succedono l’uno dopo l’altro nel tempo, ma come fattori operanti contemporaneamente in una realtà complessa sia dal punto di vista sociale ed economico, sia da quello urbano e territoriale.
Il volume è scaricabile in open access dal sito dell'editore UniPa Press
The seminars were funded by the Deutschen akademischen Austauschdienst.
The aim of the seminar was, therefore, to bring a group of north European archaeologists together with those who study "Romanization" and cultural contact in the Mediterranean area. What was expected from the exchange of opinion, is to clarify the possibility of interpreting the "Roman" world as a "globalized world" and how these interpretative categories could be applied. The debate has shown, on the one hand, that we cannot neither framed the problem in a purely theoretical nor purely material-based manner, and on the other hand, that the conditions in different provinces and the distant regions of the Roman Empire were divergent. It is more and more evident that the terms “Romanization” and “globalization” should be examined against the background of individual studies with regard to their efficiency and nuances.
The book can be downloaded in open access from the publisher UniPa Press website..