This lamp with a lot incorrect Dated III-IV century AD, almost completely illegible for the naked eye, and still the subject of study by Professor Gabriella Bevilacqua of the University of Rome Sapienza, is just one of the many, inaugurated waste ending in the sewer (precisely in the southern HypoGean Collector) of the Spectio Amfitum on a quiet day by the specty day.
These objects, much daily use, have come down to us thanks to the progressive decrease in maintenance activities of the sewerage system, typical of the last phases of this place that is responsible for always guaranteeing the Roman people “Panem et Circes”.
This story that life details reveals in the Roma of the Time is in the center of the new museum part in the hypogeea of the Flavo Amphitheatre, a setting that completes the general museum project of the basement, compiled by Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi and Barbara Nazzaro, who can start today. Part of a broader project of the recurrence of the Colosseum, which witnesses were offered by the emperor.
The new museum part in the Hypogeea of the Flavo -Amfitheater
There is a combs in Bosso Wood (III vento DC) and a gold ring has been lost by someone between the 6th and 8th century DC, decorated with a small architecture, where within a free liberal spherical spherical spherical to the movement of the ring. And then a note, probably between the steps, slid away during a game in the stands and still coins, such as those of Oricalco, a buyer and zinc alloy, published by the emperor Marcus Aurelio to celebrate the ten years of his kingdom. Because the games in the amphitheater were also a political moment when the emperor brought the people together by practicing his propaganda.
And here is the formula of the youthful poet, “panem etcirkes”, to not only materialize in the performance of exotic animals (the ostrich, the lion, the leopard) to be surprised and surprised the Roman people, but also in the delicacies of food and wine, the emperor offers and gave. Still perfectly preserved, as can be appreciated in the preparation, the shells of oysters, Tellins, ZeeBrasem, different seasoned with rare herbs, and then the melon seeds, the peachhazelnuts and cherries, seasonal fruit that apparently struck the Camea’s steps to see the show.
The findings therefore confirmed the diet that, according to Martial, used the plebs between the stands, including pigs, chicken, sea bass and walls. The pigna scales document the habit of tackling the pine nuts.
The new exhibition sector in Hypogeea also embraces amphorae for wine and to contain the fish sauce, and then marble plates on which the spectators have engraved the most exciting phases of the shows, from the hunting scene to the faces of the Darlings, to the Fighting between Gladiator with their battlesamenam (Vindicomus (Vindicomus (Vindicomus (Vindicom) Vlaa (the Theta Nigrum For example, it refers to the first letter of the Greek word Thanatos) and to victory.
The new museum part in the Hypogeea of the Flavo -Amfitheater
But the “waste” of that time, very expensive to reconstruct the day of life today, customs, precious defects of Rome, also consists of the remains of the scenography, the animal carcases (of small dogs used to attach bears) that were eliminated with cleaning at the end of the show.
The reorganization of the Set -Up therefore responds to the need to distribute the historical and cultural in -depth points during the visit, so that the tourist pressure is organized differently. In that sense, in the second order, the museum will also be the subject of a new design: between 2025 and 2026 the phases of the history of the Colosseum will be reconsidered, thereby reinforcing the dialogue between the monument, architecture and materials that belong to it, in the different eras and reuse.
From today, in the Western sector of Hypogeea, the archaeological material will be found during the archaeological examinations, coordinated by the park from 2022, exposed for the first time during the archaeological examinations, coordinated by the park. These are research that, in addition to the inspections in the hydraulic system under the square, old and modern, especially the excavation of the hypogeumhydraulic manifold that is placed in the southern part of the color, especially the excavation of the color, 70 meters of stratigraphy.
To open the new Museumpad, which uses the scientific curatorship of Federica Rinaldi, Alessandra Celant and Claudia Minniti, a video is following the most important phases of archaeological research and specialist studies that have led between 2022 and today, between 2022 and today, between the realization of the new exhibition project. To breathe new life into those days, the setting was designed by the Tortelli and Frassoni Studio of Brescia organized as a journey to discover the habits of the spectators waiting to praise their babies. The Set -Up improves these materials with an attractive and didactic graphic device. Graffiti are reproduced as designs to be better understandable in detail. Instead, the bones of the animals have been moved in their original position thanks to the reproductions of the skeletons, while the different types of forests used for scenography (chestnut, white FIR, OLM and others) are displayed in addition to the design of the reference tree species and the leaves.
Underground of the Colosseum, fragments of the marble sessions | Photo: © Simona Murrone, Archaeological Park of the Colosseum
The Set -Up improves all finds and also the arrangement of the windows is aimed at improving the original travertines of the Flavia phase, beautiful, so that each subject is brought together in a single display case. The panels of texts and an agile guide support the visit. A complex museological and museographic work has made it possible to restore value and meaning for the lost materials in the sewer collectors of the Colosseum.
From morning to evening the long days in the amphitheater spent between activities intended for body care, gambling, even betting and cursing against rivals. The lost objects and the end of the day converted into waste, now present in this compelling set -up, present these habits, between hair pins, naaine: spoles for the yarn, toothpick for personal hygiene.
As Alfonsina Russo, director of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, explains: “Protection, research and improvement, the three pillars of each museum that never wants to stop reconsidering, allows you to always offer new perspectives, invite the audience to increase their knowledge and eventually return to see it, a direct line with the Institute”.
In this direction the new installation of Hypogeea, open to the public in 2021, strengthened in 2022 with a first temporary exhibition, which subsequently became permanent in 2023; Today the new section completes this first path of redevelopment, according to the logic of the exposure of the finds in their context of origin.
The research and research work took place thanks to the collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome, in particular with the Department of Antiquity Sciences, with the Department of Environmental Biology and at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, with which the Archaeological Park of the Concept of Oin. The existing agreements for research and improvement with the Central Institute of Restoration have also proved fundamentally. Thanks to these similarities and the many internal and external professionals of the park, a scientific edition of the research that will be available in the fall is.
“Met vandaag – Said Federica Rinaldi, een archeoloogofficier die verantwoordelijk is voor het Colosseum, nu benoemd in de richting van het National Roman Museum – voltooien we de museuminstelling van de Hypogea van het Colosseum. Deze afval wordt verkregen uit het geavanceerde archeologisch materiaal, zelfs de schijnbaar meer onbeduidende materialen, digitalisering, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, digitalisatie, is gevolgd On the excavations, on the colored, gravitation.
The hypogeea can be visited every day from 8.30 to 17.20 with a full experience in Arena and underground ticket. The ticket is valid 2 consecutive days for just one access to the Colosseum (with basement and arena) and only one access to the archaeological areas of the Roman Forum, the Palatin and the Imperial Forums and the Super Locations
Tuesday and Thursday The evening will also be observed, from 8 pm to 11.30 pm.
Official website: www.colosseo.it
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