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PALACE-SANCTUARY OR PAVILION? AUGUSTUS’ HOUSE AND THE LIMITS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2022

T.P. Wiseman
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February 2021 saw the coincidentally simultaneous publication of two important books about the Augustan Palatine: Dal mostro al principe by Andrea Carandini and Paolo Carafa, and Il complesso di Augusto sul Palatino by Patrizio Pensabene, Patrizio Fileri and Enrico Gallocchio. Since Carandini and Pensabene have been for decades the most significant archaeological investigators of the Palatine, these two major works of synthesis offer a timely opportunity to assess the historical contribution of archaeology in the 60 years since Gianfilippo Carettoni first identified ‘the house of Augustus’. That contribution has been surprisingly disappointing, and this article tries to explain why.

Nel febbraio 2021 sono stati pubblicati contemporaneamente per coincidenza due importanti volumi sul Palatino in età augustea: Dal mostro al principe di Andrea Carandini e Paolo Carafa e Il complesso di Augusto sul Palatino di Patrizio Pensabene, Patrizio Fileri ed Enrico Gallocchio. Poiché Carandini e Pensabene sono stati responsabili per decenni le più significative investigazioni archeologiche del Palatino, queste due grandi opere di sintesi offrono una buona occasione per valutare il contributo storico dell'archeologia nei sessant'anni trascorsi da quando Gianfilippo Carettoni identificò per la prima volta “la casa di Augusto”. Quel contributo è stato sorprendentemente deludente e questo articolo cerca di spiegarne il motivo.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 90 , October 2022 , pp. 9 - 34
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