Notes From Rome 2021–22

Abstract

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (August 2021 – June 2022) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and newspaper reports.

Notes From Rome 2022–23

“…In related news, following the return of a major cache of looted artefacts from the United States to Italy in December 2021, 68 in January 2023 it was announced that a further 60 ancient works of art had been recovered and were being repatriated, 27 coming from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 69 The pieces were briefly shown to the press in Rome and include bronze helmets and a bronze bust, an array of black figure ceramics, and a fresco of the infant Hercules wrestling a snake from Pompeii.…”