AIA-7F: The Quirinal Project: The Quirinal Project: Excavations at Palazzo Canevari, Rome (Colloquium)

Organizers

John North Hopkins, New York University; and Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan

Discussants

Ortwin Dally, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome

Overview Statement

This colloquium serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of initial results from The Quirinal Project, a joint initiative of the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma, The University of Michigan and New York University to study, publish and musealize the in situ and cataloged remains from 150 years of sporadic excavations on the Quirinal Hill in Rome.  The site in question is beneath the 19th century Palazzo Canevari, recently renovated and made ready for a museum on its first floor, and the project incorporates data in the archives of the Soprintendenza pertinent to highly complex urban excavations between 1873 and 2023 both within the Palazzo and beneath neighboring buildings and streets.  The finds include an early domestic structure built in opus quasi-quadratum and roofed in terracotta, at least one segment of Rome’s urban fortifications, an early temple foundation of impressive dimensions, and multiple other activities covering the span of the regal and republican periods as well as later landscape activity pertinent to the Empire. This colloquium will include eight brief presentations on 1) the stratigraphy of early sixth-century BCE building activity; 2) and 3) the complex archival re-assembly of stratigraphy pertinent to one stand-alone monumental ashlar wall and three conjoined walls excavated in three campaigns spanning 25 years; 4) the ceramics and dating of diagnostic stratigraphy; 5) a diachronic overview and identification of buildings on the site; 6) a new understanding of Roman topography on the Quirinal as a result of these excavations; 7) a presentation of the musealization at Palazzo Canevari; and 8) a response.