Acknowledgements:

In 1998 the excavation team consisted of Ben Akrigg, Tyler Bell, Sandra Blakely, Genevieve Gessert, Friederike Hachmeier and Felix Schaefer, with voluntary assistance from Paolo Imperatore, Steve Cirarlo, Elise Brewster, Joanne Williamson and Alexandra Lesk, without whose patient and skilled work the results obtained could not have been achieved. The team for the ongoing 1999 excavations consists of Tyler Bell, Sandra Blakely, Stephanie Knight, Zena Kamash and David Ingham. Thanks are due to Anna Leone for studying the pottery.

I am particularly grateful to Lisa Fentress and Malcolm Bell for their invitation to excavate the Via Medici mills, and for all their assistance before and during the project; to Caroline Bruzelius, Alessandra Vinciguerra, Shawna Leigh and Myles McDonnell for their support and co-operation; and to the Academy's staff for much practical help, in particular to Ann Coulson, Sarah Hartman, Marina Lella, Caroline Howard, Giovanni Cimoroni, and the maintenance and grounds crews. Other Academy fellows and scholars, especially Darby Scott, Eric Hostetter, Ted Pena and Jennifer Trimble, provided much help and advice.

References:

Bell, M. 1994. An imperial flour mill on the Janiculum. In: La ravitaillement en blé de Rome et des centres urbains des débuts de la République jusqu'au Haut Empire. Actes du colloque international de Naples (1991), Naples-Rome: 73-89

Van Buren, A. W. and Stevens, G. P. 1917. The Aqua Traiana and the mills on the Janiculum. Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome 1: 59-61.

Wikander, Ö. 1979. Water-mills in ancient Rome. Opuscula Romana 12: 13-36.

Go to:

• Background
• Results of the 1998 season
• The Aqua Traiana
• The mill structure
• Byzantine Blocking of the Aqua Traiana - Belisarius and the Goths?
• Bones and bullets - the siege of 1849?
• The 1999 season

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Last updated: 12/03/2001

By: Andrew Wilson ( andrew.wilson@archaeology.ox.ac.uk )