Outputs

The Portus Project has generated a wide range of academic and popular outputs. The following summary list indicates this range. It also identifies the forthcoming publications with agreed publishers relating to the Portus Project.

Academic Publications (majority peer reviewed)

  • S. Keay, G. Earl and F. Felici (Forthcoming 2011) Portus Excavations and Survey Volume 1: The Structural Sequence. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome.
  • S. Keay (ed.) (Forthcoming 2010/2011) Port Networks in the Roman Mediterranean. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome.
  • S. Keay (Forthcoming 2010) The Hinterland of Portus and Ostia. In M. Pasquinucci (ed.) Porti antichi e retroterra produttivi. Congresso Internazionale. Livorno 2009.
  • G. Earl, K. Martinez, and T. Malzbender (In Press 2010). Archaeological Applications of Polynomial Texture Mapping: Analysis, Conservation and Representation. Journal Archaeological Science.
  • S. Keay & G. Boetto (eds) (In Press 2010) Portus, Ostia and the Ports of the Roman Mediterranean. In L. Fentress et al. (eds) XVII Conference of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) (Rome 2008). Bolletino di Archeologia Online. Volume Speciale.
  • S. Keay (In Press 2010), Portus and the Alexandrian Grain Trade Revisited. In L. Fentress et al. (eds) XVII Conference of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) (Rome 2008). Bolletino di Archeologia Online. Volume Speciale.
  • S. Keay & L. Paroli (eds) (In Press 2010) Portus and its Hinterland: Recent Archaeological Research. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome (14 Chapters including one chapter and one introduction by SK and with contributions to two others).
  • J. Ogden, S. Keay, G. Earl, K. Strutt, S. Kay (In Press 2010) Geophysical Prospection at Portus: An Evaluation of an Integrated Approach to Interpreting Subsurface Archaeological Features. Proceedings CAA 2009.
  • G. Earl, S. Keay and G. Beale (2010) Evaluating Gismondi's Representation of Portus, the Port of Imperial Rome. A. Grande (ed.) Arqueológica 2.0 Seville 2009. 
  • E. Gasparini, S. Keay, G. Earl & F. Felici (2010), Nuovi rivestimenti marmorei dal “Palazzo Imperiale” di Portus. Associazione Italiana Studio e Conservazione del Mosaico (AISCOM), Palermo. March 2010.
  • S. Keay, G. Earl, S. Hay, S. Kay, J. Ogden and K. Strutt (2009) The role of Integrated Geophysical Survey in the Assessment of Archaeological Landscapes: the case of Portus. Archaeological Prospection 16:  154-66.
  • F. Salomon, J. -P. Goiran, J. -P. Bravard, R. Ballantyne, E. Margiritis, S. Keay, G. Earl and S. Kay (2009) Delta du Tibre. Campagne de carrotage 2008. Etude des canaux de Portus. MEFRA 2009.1: 60-4.
  • G. Earl, S. Keay and G. Beale, G. (2008) Computer Graphic Modelling at Portus: Analysis, Reconstruction and Representation of the Claudian and Trajanic Harbours. In Proceedings of EARSEL SIG Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Rome 2008.
  • S. Keay, G. Earl, K. Strutt, S. Hay, S. Kay (2008) The Potential of archaeological Geophysics. The Work of the British School at Rome in Italy. In L. Orlando (ed.) Geofisica per l'archeologia. Possibilita e limiti. CISTEC. Rome.
  • K. Strutt and S. Keay (2008) The Role of Integrated Geophysical Survey Methods in the Assessment of Archaeological Landscapes: the case of Portus. In R. Lasaponara and N. Masini (eds) Advances on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management. Proceedings of the 1st International EARSeL Workshop CNR, Rome, September 30 – October 4, 2008. Rome, Consiglio Nazionale di Ricerca: 121-4.
  • Keay, S., Earl, G., Felici, F. (2008) The Portus Project, in Papers of the British School at Rome LXXVI: 331 - 332.
  • Keay, S., Strutt, K. (2007) The Portus Project, in Papers of the British School at Rome LXXV, London: 305 - 306.

Professional and Popular Publications

  • S. Keay (Forthcoming June 2010), Recent discoveries at Portus, the port of Imperial Rome. Current World Archaeology.
  • E. Spinner with S. Keay (2010) Portus. Podium. March 2010. (Also featured on Podium Online).
  • S. Keay (2009), Roman Mediterranean Ports. British Academy Bulletin 14. London, British Academy.
  • S. Keay (2009) La riscoperta del “Palazzo Imperiale” di Porto. Rivista di Archeo. Dicembre 2009.
  • V. Ricciardi (2009) l'antico scalo di Portus' Archeologia Viva 139
    (www.archeologiaviva.it/)

Forthcoming Conferences

  • S. Keay, The Portus Project. Session “Rome and the Sea” organized by S. Keay and P. Arnaud, Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford March 25-28 2010.
  • S. Keay, New Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Magazzini (Porto). G. Boetto & Veronique Chankowski. Entrepôts et systèmes de stockage dans le monde gréco-romain antique. 18-20 mars 2010. Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme Aix-en-Provence.

Public Lectures

  • S. Keay, Rediscovering Portus: The Port of Imperial Rome. The Second Annual Byvanck Lecture. BABESCH. Leiden 24th October 2008
  • S. Keay, Recent Discoveries at the Palazzo Imperiale at Portus. British School at Rome. 29th September 2009.
  • S. Keay, Re-discovering the Imperial Palace at Portus. University of Southampton 15th September 2009.
  • G. Earl Evaluating Gismondi’s Representation of Portus, the Port of Imperial Rome. Arqueológica 2.0 Seville. June 2009. 
  • S. Keay, Nuove scoperte a Porto, porto della Roma Imperiale. Odeion, Museo dei Gessi. Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Rome. 29th April 2009.
  • Keay, Il Palazzo Imperiale di Porto e Apollodoro di Damasco. Scuola di Architettura, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza. April 2009.
  • S. Keay, Le Port de la Rome Imperiale. Cycle de conference. Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterrannee Jean Pouilloux, Lyon. 4th March 2010.

In addition the Portus Project has hosted two AHRC funded Workshops on Portus (March 2008 and 2009) at the British School at Rome, with a third planned for 2010.

Media:

In 2009 and 2010 Portus was featured in:

  • Television: BBC ‘Click On-Line”, BBC South, Meridian, RAI, Discovery Europe, Discovery Canada, National Geographic
  • Newspapers: Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Sunday Times, Express, Times, Metro), Italian (Corriere della Sera) and Spanish (El Pais, ABC, La Vanguardia and local press).
  • Radio: Radio4, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Wave105

Online:

The computer graphic video and still representations of Portus have featured on websites across the world, including featuring as the top story on the CNN website, the front page of the BBC’s flagship technology site, the AHRC website, the websites corresponding to the majority of the other media outlets above, and on a growing number of blogs, wikis and image and video sharing websites.

Please see Portus in the News web page for further details of some of the media coverage of Portus during October 2009.

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The following internal reports have been produced by a range of specialists involved in the Portus Project. These will form the basis for subsequent publications and planning for future work on site.

  • S. Keay, G. Earl & F. Felici (2010) Excavation and Survey at the Palazzo Imperiale 2007-2009 (with plans, matrices, context list and photos)
  • E. Schiadozzi (2010) Report Bolli Laterizi
  • S. Hamilton-Dyer (2010) Report Faunal Assessment
  • K. Strutt (2010) Report on the Geophysical Survey at Portus, Fiumicino May 2007-October 2009
  • W. Pantano (2010) Studio dei resti schelestrici (13 sepolture) di Porto (2007-2009): Obiettivi e preventivo di spesa
  • E. Gasparini (2010) Catalogazione e studio dei marmi e dei materiali litici (2007-2009)
  • S. Zampini (2010) Studio di Ceramica di Porto (2007-2009)
  • F. Salomon & J.-P. Goiran (2010) Rapport sur les carrotages geoarcheologique au Palazzo Imperiale de Porto
  • E. Margiritis & R. Ballantyne (2010) Report on the the Environmental Material from Portus (2007-2009)