Patrimonio Culturale Mediterraneo: Italia e Montenegro. Conoscenze e prospettive

Responsabili di progetto

Alessandro Naso, Dragana Kujovic

Accordo

MONTENEGRO - MoS-not in force - Ministero della Scienza del Montenegro

Bando

CNR/MoS 2015-2016

Dipartimento

Scienze umane e sociali, patrimonio culturale

Area tematica

Scienze umane e sociali, patrimonio culturale

Stato del progetto

Nuovo

Proposta di ricerca

In this project the scholars from Italy and Montenegro will research a variety of the Mediterranean cultural heritage segments.
Alessandro Naso will be specially focused on Italic cultures and their overseas relationships; trade and relationship in archaic Mediterranean; early Greek Trade amphoras; handcraft productions in pre-roman Italy; land use and settlement patterns in pre-roman Italy and amber artefacts from the sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus.
The research of Sergio Ribichini will be specifically focused on study of Phoenician and Punic religious traditions based on Greek and Latin literature; Definitions of the sacred space in the ancient Mediterranean and especially of the holy places known as "tophet" and Examination of religious contacts among different cultures in the Mediterranean basin.
Paola Moscati will deal with archaeological computing in the 21st century, promoting an interdisciplinary approach, in line with the policies of international research and the socio-economic conditions of each country. From fieldwork to laboratory investigations, from cultural heritage preservation to data dissemination, education and musealisation, computer science offers powerful tools for building an integrated platform on which methods and resources of different disciplines can be managed simultaneously, contributing to reconstruct, and therefore safeguard the past through innovative tools. This approach, in which the technological component expands and various disciplines coordinate and converge, matches with the trends towards specific fields of research developed at the end of the last century, such as environmental archeology, landscape archeology, archaeology of architecture, and experimental archeology.
Massimo Botto will focus research in the project on the Phoenician and Punic period, especially at Pani Loriga (Sardinia). This research will include historical and archaeological survey, geophysical and geological research, implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS) and 3d modelling.
Lucia Alberti will research the Greek Bronze Age and especially on necropolis and tombs as part of a broader interest in burial customs and mortuary practices of the ancient Mediterranean. Her research involves an integrated approach to the study of the Knossos valley, including historical and archaeological analysis, geophysical and geological techniques and the implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS). The results of the project, both in spatial and archaeological settings, will contribute to create a webGIS accessible online. There is also the possibility to create access points, where the users, clicking on an interactive screen, could enjoy the same views and landscapes saw from tombs by the ancient inhabitants of the area. For this aim, through Quick Time clips, some spherical outlooks and virtual reconstructions will be reconstructed, in which the visitor will free-move inside the landscape.
Carla Sfameni will focus her researches in the project on Roman villas with reference to the Mediterranean style, as well as on archeological and historical topics of the Late Antiquity.
Archives, libraries, museums, mosques, churches, both Orthodox and Catholic monasteries, and private collections, dispersed throughout Montenegro, store a variety of testimonies and manuscripts in Arabian, Persian and Turkish, among which the majority official documents are those from Ottoman Rule era. The research undertaken by Dragana Kujovi will be focused on what stands for elements of recognizing Oriental and Islamic heritage within the respective territories of Bar and Ulcinj, but primarily on the written traces imprinted and preserved on paper, stone, walls, glass, textile, metal and alike.
The research of Olga Pelcer Vuja
i would be mainly focused on epigraphical sources, as they are the ones to give the most information on social and economic conditions in antiquity. It is necessary to collect all existing inscriptions from Montenegro, around 350 of them, and prepare them for professional publication and digitalization. In that way we will be able to preserve our cultural heritage and connect with other European projects and databases such as http://www.eagle-network.eu/ or platforms http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/ and http://pleiades.stoa.org/ linking all geographical data, archaeological sites, inscriptions, photos and existing literature.
Tatjana Koprivica will be engaged in researched the architecture of Roman town Doclea in the Late Antiquity. Studying the urban, i.e. the sacral topography of Town of Doclea and the comparison to the urban cores of the Mediterranean coast will definitely contribute to a clear overview of the methods of dispersing and receiving the Christianity within a broader area, as well as the modes of its visual expression.
Slavko Burzanovi will engage himself into cultural links between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Montenegro in the second half of the 19th and in the early 20th centuries. Good political relations, while particularly those as of establishing links between the two countries' dynasties, were favorable during the said period to intensify mutual cultural relations. Italy was interested in everything in the Montenegrin culture that appeared to have an exotic character. Special interest from the Italian side was that in the culture of ancient Rome remnants that had been inherited within Montenegrin territory. The taking of Italian capital to Montenegro during the first half of the 20th century gave new strong impulses to strengthening cultural links between Italy and Montenegro.

Obiettivi della ricerca

The scientific goals of the Project are multidisciplinary researching in a variety of the Mediterranean cultural heritage segments-Phoenician and Punic, Aegean, Etruscan, Roman, Oriental and Islamic ones and rich cultural relations between Montenegro and Italy.
During the project activities, Italian and Montenegrin researchers will apply multidisciplinary approach and contemporary methodologies and technologies (Geophysical and geological techniques and the implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS), 3D modelling, virtual reconstructions etc.), in order to contribute to better understanding of the Mediterranean cultural heritage.
Young scientists will participate in the project.
Through this project, the scientists from Historical Institute of Montenegro, University of Montenegro and Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico (ISMA), CNR, will strength scientific relations for the future collaborations.

Ultimo aggiornamento: 14/12/2024