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ITALY
ROME
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House
of Augustus
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Rome's first emperor, Augustus, lived in a complex
of buildings that included a late-Republican house
and a new temple that he built and dedicated to Apollo.
The complex sits atop the Palatine Hill just across
the street from the venerated hut of Romulus, Rome's
legendary founder. Augustus' house was probably damaged
in the fire of 64 A.D. The remains of the house disappeared,
but were at the same time preserved, in the fill brought
to the site under Domitian, who near the end of the
first century raised the level on this part of the
hill. The House of Augustus project is a collaboration
between the University of Bologna and UCLA. The goal of
the project is to create a computer model in which
the architectural remains and works of art uncovered
by twentieth century archaeologists will be virtually
restored to their original Augustan state.
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| Name
of site |
House
of Augustus |
| Location |
Palatine
Hill, Rome |
| Date
represented in model |
ca.
10 A.D. |
| Scientific
Committee |
Daniela
Scagliarini (University of Bologna), Bernard Frischer
(UCLA) |
| Modeler(s) |
Philip
Stinson |
| File
format |
MultiGen
Creator |
| Status
of project |
In
progress |
| Comments
and Links |
Completed
as of this date are: a simplified elevation of the surviving
structure, the so-called Studiolo of Augustus, the Room
of the Masks, and the Room of the Pine Garlands. Frischer
and Stinson have written an article about the project
that will appear in the acts of the Ghent Conference
on the Proposed Ename Charter on Site Presentation to
be published by the Ename Center for Pubic Archaeology
and Heritage Presentation (see
http://www.enamecenter.org/pages/projects_charter.html).
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May
10, 2003 |
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Perspective, "Studiolo" of Augustus |
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