Villa Magna

Web components of publication

Excavations at Villamagna 2006—2010 (the web publication)
E. Fentress, C. Goodson, M. Maiuro eds.

The Villamagna website is designed to present the stratigraphy of the excavation and the various catalogues – of pottery, of finds, of masonry- that have been created. With the exception of the stratigraphy, the catalogues are submitted in the form of word files and spreadsheets, and will be displayed on the web as illustrated databases, in an improved version of the current display of the object database in ARK. Viewers/readers will be able to search across the objects and limit their searches by Area, or by chronology or by object type or material, for example. The discussions of stratigraphy will be linked to the ARK database by clickable SU and SSU numbers, and it will thus be necessary for the authors of the strat reports to clean up the individual records as far as possible.
The Home Page of the site will consist of a brief introduction, and a menu allowing the user to select the category he wishes to consult (the numbered categories below). Each of these will open a page with another range of choices (the lettered categories below).
1. The Stratigraphy.
a. Areas A and G: The winery (Janine Young)
b. Areas A and F: The baths (Andrea Di Miceli)
c. Areas A and F: The medieval stratigraphy of the casale (Darian Totten)
d. Area FIV: the cistern (Ismini Miliaresis)
e. Area D (Serena Privitera)
f. Areas BII and C: the church and the area to the north (CG)
g. Area BI: the cemetery (Cori Fenwick)
h. Area E: the ‘Fontana Romana’ (MM)
2. The Masonry and Brickstamps
a. The Roman Masonry (Margaret Andrews and Seth Bernard)
b. The Brickstamps (Seth Bernard)
c. The Medieval Masonry (Margaret Andrews with CG, if necessary)
3. The Decoration
a. The Roman Architectural Fragments (Dirk Booms)
b. The Roman Pavements (Dirk Booms)
c. The Painted Plaster (Roberta Ferritto and Federica Pollari)
d. The Medieval Architectural Fragments (Megan McNamee)
4. The Objects
a. The Roman sculpture (Ann Kuttner)
b. The Roman coins (Andrea Di Miceli)
c. The Medieval coins (Marco Bianchi)
d. Small Finds From area A, G and F (the winery) (Beatrice Cernuta) From area D, the barracks (Ryan Ricciardi) From area B and C, the monastery, church and cemetery (Archidio Mariani) Tools, weights and agricultural implements (Tyler Franconi)
5. The Pottery and Glass
a. Black Glazed pottery (Raffaele Laino)
b. Italian Sigillata (Paola Umbri)
c. Roman Coarsewares (Mihaela Ciausescu)
d. Roman Amphorae (Mihaela Ciausescu)
e. African Red Slip (Candace Rice)
f. Roman Lamps (Gioia Gaianigo)
g. Roman Glazed Wares (Ilaria De Luca)
h. Dolia (Candace Rice)
i. Late Roman Coarsewares (Darian Totten)
j. Roman Glass (Birgitta Hoffman)
k. Medieval Pottery (Giorgio Rascaglia)
l. Medieval Glass (Barbara Lepri)
6. The Human Skeletal Remains
a. Physical Anthropology (Francesca Candilio, Samantha Cox, Rowan Brixey)
b. Isotopic Analysis (Erika Nitsch)
7. Plant and Animal Remains
a. Seeds (Kevin Williams)
b. Charcoal (xxx)
c. Animal Bones (xxx)