Archéologie & Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident - CNRS PSL

PROTECT - Knowledge for PReventiOn. TEChniques for repairing seismic damage from medieval period To modern era

Agnès — 2021-12-08T13:53:27Z

Project H2020-MSCA IF

Drawing Pompeii: the corpus of the architects of the “Grand Tour”

Jean-Michel Colas 1 — 2020-03-27T15:22:53Z

The analysis of collections and publications that have been transmitted by the architects of the Grand Tour permits to grasp the challenge that constitutes the representation of an ancient city, which is to be reproduced by drawing. Several Pompeii collections have been examined, in particular notebooks by the “topographer” William Gell, kept in the INHA Library.
A publication is forthcoming : H. Dessales, H. Dessales, Recueils de William Gell. Pompéi publiée et inédite (1801-1829), Paris, (...)

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Project Villa of Diomedes, Pompeii, coord. H. Dessales

Jean-Michel Colas 1 — 2020-03-27T09:44:06Z

This program focuses on one of the very first buildings excavated on the site of Pompeii, between 1771 and 1775, the Villa of Diomedes, which was mostly described and depicted by the travelers of the “Grand Tour”. Since 2012, thanks to the structuring programmePSL « Pompeii 3D », and with the partnership of the Parco archeologico di Pompei, a multidisciplinary program has been aimed at reconstructing its entire evolution, combining the material fabrication of a Roman villa with its (...)

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ANR RECAP (2015-2019), coord. H. Dessales

Jean-Michel Colas 1 — 2020-03-27T08:56:19Z

Initiated in January 2015, and nearing completion, the collaborative program RECAP (Post-earthquake Reconstruction Ancient experiments and innovations at Pompeii) aims to study the reconstruction of a city following an earthquake, through the particular case of Pompeii. The program associates four main partners, the AOROC laboratory (UMR 8546), the Inria (UMR 8538), the IPGP (UMR 7154) and the CJB (USR 3133) and four collaborators, the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (...)

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Leopoli Cencelle (Civitavecchia, Italy)

Agnès — 2020-01-13T13:24:37Z

The archaeological site of Leopoli-Cencelle is located in the Northern Lazio (Italy) between Tarquinia (VT) and Allumiere (RM), 80 km northwest of Rome and 12 km northwest of Civitavecchia. Sapienza University of Rome has been conducting an archaeological
survey in the area since 1994, with annual digging campaigns that have provided a framework of this Medieval city from its consecration in 854 CE until the 17th century.
From 2019, other institutions were associated with research, the (...)

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