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ANALECTA ROMANA INSTITUTI DANICI XLIV ANALECTA ROMANA INSTITUTI DANICI XLIV 2019 ROMAE MMXX ANALECTA ROMANA INSTITUTI DANICI XLIV © 2020 Accademia di Danimarca ISSN 2035-2506 SCIENTIFIC BOARD Mads Kähler Holst (Bestyrelsesformand, Det Danske Institut i Rom) Jens Bertelsen (Bertelsen & Scheving Arkitekter) Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (Aalborg Universitet) Karina Lykke Grand (Aarhus Universitet) Thomas Harder (Forfatter/writer/scrittore) Morten Heiberg (Københavns Universitet) Hanne Jansen (Københavns Universitet) Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen (Den Danske Ambassade i Rom) Mogens Nykjær (Aarhus Universitet) Vinnie Nørskov (Aarhus Universitet) Niels Rosing-Schow (Det Kgl. Danske Musikkonservatorium) Erling Strudsholm (Københavns Universitet) Lene Østermark-Johansen (Københavns Universitet) EDITORIAL BOARD Marianne Pade (Chair of Editorial Board, Det Danske Institut i Rom - 31.08.19) Charlotte Bundgaard (Chair of Editorial Board, Det Danske Institut i Rom) Patrick Kragelund (Danmarks Kunstbibliotek) Sine Grove Saxkjær (Det Danske Institut i Rom) Gert Sørensen (Københavns Universitet) Anna Wegener (Det Danske Institut i Rom) Maria Adelaide Zocchi (Det Danske Institut i Rom) Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. — Vol. I (1960) — . Copenhagen: Munksgaard. From 1985: Rome, «L’ERMA» di Bretschneider. From 2007 (online): Accademia di Danimarca. ANALECTA ROMANA INSTITUTI DANICI encourages scholarly contributions within the Academy’s research fields. All contributions will be peer reviewed. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: [email protected] Authors are requested to consult the journal’s guidelines: www.acdan.it Contents SIGNE BUCCARELLA HEDEGAARD & CECILIE BRØNS: Lost in Translation: An Introduction to the Challenging Task of Communicating Long-lost Polychromy on Graeco - Roman Marble Sculptures 7 LÆRKE MARIA ANDERSEN FUNDER: Continuity and Reception: The Life of the Spinario 29 CLAUS ASBJØRN ANDERSEN: What is Metaphysics in Baroque Scotism? Key Passages from Bartolomeo Matri’s Disputations on Metaphysics (1646-1647) 49 COSTANTINO CECCANTI: “Andre udmærkede Bygmestre”: Hermann Baagøe Storck e lo stile toscano nella Danimarca dell’Ottocento 73 Philology Then and Now Proceedings of the Conference held at the Danish Academy in Rome, 16 July 2019 INTRODUCTION: Making Sense of Texts: From Early Modern to Contemporary Philology 95 MINNA SKAFTE JENSEN: The Emic-Etic Distinction: a Tool in Neo-Latin Research? 99 ŠIME DEMO: Getting Help from a Daughter: Linguistic Methodology and Early Modern Philology 113 PAOLO MONELLA: A Digital Critical Edition Model for Priscian: Glosses, Graeca, Quotations 135 JOHANN RAMMINGER: Stylometry in a Language without Native Speakers: A Test Case from Early Modern Latin 151 MARIANNE PADE: Imitation and Intertextaulity in Humanist Translation 169 JULIA HAIGH GAISSER: Philology and Poetry in the Humanism of Giovanni Pontano 187 KAREN SKOVGAARD-PETERSEN: Philological Pessimism: Henrik Ernst’s Treatise on Textual Criiticism (1652) 205 TRINE ARLUND HASS: The Meaning of Jul (Christmas) according to Pontanus, Vedel and Worm: Etymology, Controversy, and Foundation Myths of the Danes 217 Report JAN KINDBERG JACOBSEN, CLAUDIO PARISI PRESICCE, RUBINA RAJA & MASSIMO VITTI: Excavating Caesar’s Forum: Present Results of the Caesar’s Forum Project 239 REPORT Excavating Caesar’s Forum Present Results of the Caesar’s Forum Project by JAN KINDBERG JACOBSEN, CLAUDIO PARISI PRESICCE, RUBINA RAJA & MASSIMO VITTI Abstract. This report presents the Caesar’s Forum Project. It furthermore summarizes the results obtained this far while situating the current investigations within the broader research history pertaining to the area best known as that of Caesar’s Forum. Hitherto the 16th–20th century Alessandrino Quarter that until now only received limited scholarly attention has been excavated within the framework of the project. Moreover, the pottery from the 1998–2000 excavations conducted by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali has been processed in preparation for the ongoing excavations, which are expected to reveal material similar to that from previous excavations, spanning a cultural horizon of more than 3000 years. Introduction of Excellence, Centre for Urban Network The Forum Iulium, Gaius Julius Caesar’s Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University, eponymous forum in the heart of public the Danish Institute in Rome (DIR), and Rome, constitutes one of the most famous and Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali. influential architectural spaces of the ancient (Fig. 1) The project focuses on excavating world. Initiated in 54 BCE and abutting the the south-eastern part of the forum complex much older and tradition-bound Forum which makes up roughly one third of the entire Romanum, the new forum placed its patron at area of the late Republication forum space. the centre, both in terms of politics at the time The excavations are carried out in accordance and topographic location within the city, while with the most recent advances within the whole time accentuating how powerful archaeological fieldwork methods and aim not Caesar was becoming. It also set a precedent just to shed light on the Late Republican and and an example for many of the later Roman emperors. Since 2017, the joint Danish-Italian Caesar’s Forum Project has been unearthing a part of the forum area that hitherto had not been subjected to archaeological investigation. This report gives an overview of the Caesar’s Forum Project, situates it within the wider scholarly attention paid to the forum, and presents the results obtained until now. The project and its relation to previous archaeological excavations in the area The Caesar’s Forum Project was initiated in 2017. It is a collaboration between the Danish Fig. 1. Area of the 2019-excavations along the Via dei National Research Foundation’s Centre Fori Imperiali (photo: the Caesar’s Forum project) 240 JAN KINDBERG JACOBSEN, CLAUDIO P ARISI PRESICCE & RUBINA RAJA Imperial phases of the history of the forum Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune but to obtain knowledge about the entire span di Roma instigated a project to establish an of the archaeology of the area, which covers archaeological park in the area of the imperial more than 3000 years of habitation from the fora.5 This also included new excavations on Recent Bronze Age until the present. The the Caesar’s Forum which were carried out excavations are complemented by scientific in the years 1998-2000 and 2005-2008.6 For analyses allowing us to perceive the prehistory the first time, the investigation focused on and history of Rome – also before the city the earlier remains beneath the forum level, came into being – in what we might term high and foundations of buildings dating to the definition.1 archaic and early republican periods (7th–4th The current project is the latest of several century BCE) were uncovered.7 Moreover, the archaeological excavations in the forum space investigations led to the discovery of traces which began almost 90 years ago. The first of the initial human activity in the area during excavations were carried out in the early 1930s the Recent- and Final Bronze Age (13th–12th under the political reign of Benito Mussolini century BCE) and a slightly later series of and in connection with the construction of graves dating as early as the Late Bronze Age the Via dei Fori Imperiali (then called Via and Early Iron Age (11th–9th century BCE).8 dell’Impero).2 The excavations laid open the The results of these excavations likewise point north-westernmost part of the forum including towards the existence of specialized workshops large parts of the temple dedicated to Venus in the area during the 9th-6th century BCE.9 Genetrix. At this time, too, the three Corinthian Altogether, the previous archaeological columns which are now supporting a part of investigations underline the not surprising the architrave of the Venus temple in the forum fact that activity in the area, which became were reconstructed and put back into place.3 the location of Julius Caesar’s forum is not However, as the road was constructed along confined to the Caesarean period. Rather, and atop the imperial fora, large habitation it extends much further back in time and quarters had to be demolished, and, in the continues until modern times allowing us process, substantial parts of the Forum of the unique opportunity to investigate Rome’s Caesar were buried beneath it. From the 1960s archaeology and history even before the site and 70s the excavations focused on a small became Rome and up through time until today. area in front of the temple as well as the area A similar stratigraphical sequence is expected at immediately behind the curia, and during the the south-eastern end of the forum. Precisely 1980s the latter area was also archaeologically this broad, diachronic perspective lies at the investigated.4 The main focus of these heart of the aims of the present project and investigations was the layout of the forum and will be investigated in detail over the coming its portico. However, excavations within the years. recent decades have uncovered earlier phases in the southern part of the forum. In connection Results of the archaeological investigations of the with the Grand Jubilee of 2000, the Ministero project this far dei Beni Culturali, the Sovrintendenza Speciale The work done so far has until now provided per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, and the important insights pertaining to the history 1 Jacobsen & Raja 2018. 6 Delfino 2014; De