Articles by Cristiana Cordone

This paper illustrates some results of rescue excavations carried out during public and private work executed between the third and sixth mile of the ancient Via Flaminia before and beyond the Milvian Bridge. The excavation data are still being studied, while the graphic documentation has already been scanned, georeferenced and vectorized by the SITAR. Due to the nature of the places, the adoption of multiple methods of investigation was required. In addition to the archaeological survey, geo-archaeological drillings and prospections using ERT (Electrical Resistivity Tomography) were undertaken. The findings, arising from the various sites investigated, mainly consist of funerary buildings (like Mausoleums under the Stadio Flaminio and remains of burial chambers under the Villa Flaminia) that escaped demolition of the early 20th century, when the road was involved in an intensive building campaign, which erased it from the city landscape. On the other side of the Tiber, a portion of the ancient Via Flaminia has been unearthed in the area of a gym, Mondofitness, at the fourth mile of the Via Flaminia, and trial excavations in the area of Saxa Rubra brought to light the ruins of a Roman Villa Rustica with a thermal complex.

The SITAR project, designed to implement the GIS Archaeology of Rome, was started in 2007 by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (SSBAR). The starting point for the SITAR project was the SSBAR requirement to digitize and manage a large quantity of administrative and scientific data concerning Cultural Heritage. This project was developed at a crucial point in which the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities was rethinking the Territorial Information System, the data standardization and data sharing system used in the past decades. It was the input to the new institutional Open Approach. This aspect is apparent in the proposed SITAR data model, whose linearity is applied in the same basic logical levels already identified and well-structured information architecture of the System and those that will be tested. The additional advantage of SITAR is precisely the possibility of splitting archaeological knowledge into these core levels and reassembling it under the guidance of those who have the tools and scientific knowledge to do so. The SSBAR aspires to the creation of an archaeological ‘cadastre’ of Rome which is an approved and certified basis created according to information on legal and administrative aspects of archaeological science. In addition, the comparison with other institutions actively engaged in testing new multimedia technologies applied to cultural heritage has encouraged the evolution of SITAR to 3D data modeling and the development of procedures to test the archaeological potential.