tailieunhanh - THE 2011 FIELD SEASON AT THE VILLA SAN MARCO, STABIAE: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS

What the described event marks is a moment where an expectation is shattered: the composer, who expected to become a big success in the French capital, had his art rejected by one of the most important figures from the city’s artistic scene. An event such as this is criss-crossed by innumerable social vectors. On one hand, a foreign artist, fresh from the ‘periphery,’ a recent arrival in the great cultural centre of the period; on the other, a Parisian artist completely established and at home in his setting. More than a purely aesthetic question, therefore, a whole series of cultural contents, legitimacies, representations and hierarchies was. | The Journal of Fasti Online ISSN 1828-3179 Published by the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica Piazza San Marco 49 - I-00186 Roma Tel. Fax http http The 2011 Field Season at the Villa San Marco Stabiae Preliminary Report on the Excavations Taco T. Terpstra In the summer of 2011 Columbia University in collaboration with H2CU Centro Interuniversitario per la Formazione Internazionale started an archaeological project in ancient Stabiae The Advanced Program of Ancient History and Art APAHA a program that is projected to run for five years. During this time the project will perform stratigraphic excavations in one of the largest and most opulent villas in Campania the Villa San Marco. This villa along with Pompeii Herculaneum and the rest of Stabiae was buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 . In the 18th century when archaeological interest in the lost Campanian cities began it was among the earliest structures to be uncovered. Excavated by the Bourbons to extract artefacts and wall paintings it was then immediately reburied. A program to bring the villa back to light started in the 1950s and continues to the present day but only with the aim to uncover what the Bourbons had already seen. APAHA is the first program ever to perform stratigraphic excavations in the Stabiae villas investigating the pre-79 . history of the site. The project s goal is to understand the architectural history of the villa as well as any existing older habitational layers giving a full archaeological account of the stratigraphy from the eruption of Mt Vesuvius down to virgin soil. The project will also excavate in the street that delineates the northern section of the Villa San Marco with the aim of understanding the interaction between private and public space. Since the street is an extension of the Stabiae city-grid plan part of the goal of these excavations is also to investigate the connection between the villa and the .