Rome Transformed: Researching the Eastern Caelian C1-C8 Ce (Rome)

Rome Transformed: Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Eastern Caelian (Rome)

“…Fundamental to the aspirations of ROMETRANS, the ERC-funded research project ‘Rome Transformed: interdisciplinary analysis of political, military, and religious regenerations of the city's forgotten quarter C1-C8 CE’ is an ambitious programme of fieldwork () 1 . Our last report (Haynes et al, 2020) recognised the impact of COVID-19 on this programme, but also explained how the project's overall research momentum had nevertheless been maintained. The ongoing off-site analysis of data captured in the field prior to early March 2020 and a range of equally essential work on archival sources and database development kept team members fully occupied.…”

Multiple GPR surveys in urban area. The case of S. Giovanni in Laterano and S. Croce in Gerusalemme, as part of ERC Rome Transformed Project

“…In the complex site considered in the Rome Transformed Project, a series of GPR surveys employing different frequencies were carried out. The Rome Transformed Project aims to enhance the knowledge of Rome place in cultural change across the Mediterranean world by mapping political, military and religious changes to the Eastern Caelian from the first to eighth centuries AD [4]. An important aspect of the project strategy is the employment of different geophysical methods (GPR and ERT) suitable for deep stratigraphic urban investigations.…”

Rome Transformed: Fieldwork in South-East Rome

“…Previous reports (Haynes et al , 2020; 2021) have summarised progress on ROMETRANS, the ERC-funded research project ‘Rome Transformed: interdisciplinary analysis of political, military, and religious regenerations of the city's forgotten quarter C1-C8 CE’ (). The period 2021–22, which falls half-way through the current five-year project, has been of the utmost importance to the overall fieldwork programme.…”