Between Continuity and Change: The Roma Tre University / MedA Foundation Archaeological Mission in the Framework of the New Agenda of the Department of Antiquities of Libya · The paper aims to discuss the main areas of Italian cooperation with the DoA, with the urgent need to reflect on how to interpret the term ‘cooperation’ in relation to research, conservation and promotion of cultural heritage, training, and dissemination of the results achieved. The ‘new course’ following the civil war period has heightened awareness of the opportunity to prioritise sustainable projects and functional interventions within the current DoA agenda: a request to all missions to link historic and archaeological research with the protection of ancient remains; the importance of land monitoring; fight against illicit trafficking of archaeological goods; as well as training, especially the technological one, concerning the registration of artefacts and their digital cataloguing. At this background, the paper presents the activities conducted by our mission since 2011, which included: the construction of the new roofs of the Villa of Silin (2017- 2018), the lifting, restoration and relaying of the peristyle mosaics, the repair of damaged masonry the restoration of the frescoes and the rehabilitation of the tomb of Aelia Arisuth in Gargaresh (2021-2022); the implementation of the project supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (contextualisation of the artefacts stored in the Red Castle warehouse; systematic description and classification of the archive documentation); the organising of two exhibitions, one dedicated to the works of Italian archaeological missions in Libya since the Second World War (Tripoli, 2021), the other focused on the photographs of Libyan archaeological landscapes preserved in Italian archives (Rome, 2022); the editing of the journal «Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya».
Musso, L. (2024). Tra continuità e cambiamento: la missione archeologica dell'Università Roma Tre/Fondazione MedA nel quadro dell'agenda del Dipartimento di Antichità della Libia. LIBYA ANTIQUA, 17, 95-106 [10.19272/202410601008].
Tra continuità e cambiamento: la missione archeologica dell'Università Roma Tre/Fondazione MedA nel quadro dell'agenda del Dipartimento di Antichità della Libia
Musso, Luisa
2024-01-01
Abstract
Between Continuity and Change: The Roma Tre University / MedA Foundation Archaeological Mission in the Framework of the New Agenda of the Department of Antiquities of Libya · The paper aims to discuss the main areas of Italian cooperation with the DoA, with the urgent need to reflect on how to interpret the term ‘cooperation’ in relation to research, conservation and promotion of cultural heritage, training, and dissemination of the results achieved. The ‘new course’ following the civil war period has heightened awareness of the opportunity to prioritise sustainable projects and functional interventions within the current DoA agenda: a request to all missions to link historic and archaeological research with the protection of ancient remains; the importance of land monitoring; fight against illicit trafficking of archaeological goods; as well as training, especially the technological one, concerning the registration of artefacts and their digital cataloguing. At this background, the paper presents the activities conducted by our mission since 2011, which included: the construction of the new roofs of the Villa of Silin (2017- 2018), the lifting, restoration and relaying of the peristyle mosaics, the repair of damaged masonry the restoration of the frescoes and the rehabilitation of the tomb of Aelia Arisuth in Gargaresh (2021-2022); the implementation of the project supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (contextualisation of the artefacts stored in the Red Castle warehouse; systematic description and classification of the archive documentation); the organising of two exhibitions, one dedicated to the works of Italian archaeological missions in Libya since the Second World War (Tripoli, 2021), the other focused on the photographs of Libyan archaeological landscapes preserved in Italian archives (Rome, 2022); the editing of the journal «Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya».I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
