Abstract
Abstract. The Accademia Pilot Project concerns one of the lesser known buildings of Hadrian's Villa, the Accademia, which is still in private property and is not open to the public. One of the most significant and unique features of this building – and of the whole Villa – is a network of subterranean service corridors, which was seldom studied. For the first time we used Geophysics at Hadrian's Villa, to explore the subterranean tunnels of the Accademia and reconstruct their layout. The survey was done by archaeologist Anna Maria Marras for her Master thesis in Geo-technology (Marras, 2008) and gave very interesting results.
Highlights
The Accademia Pilot Project is focused on the Accademia and the surrounding grounds of the Accademia Esplanade, which is the highest artificial terrace of the Villa – a real Acropolis – and belongs to the Bulgarini family since the XVII century
The preparatory drawing and the final plan published by Piranesi show a stair (F) and a T shaped a subterranean corridor (C), which was parallel to the northern side of the porch (Fig. 4a– b)
About Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), since we did not know how the tunnels excavated in the tufa rock and filled with tufa sherds and dirt would respond to the instrument
Summary
The Accademia Pilot Project is focused on the Accademia and the surrounding grounds of the Accademia Esplanade (plan Fig. 1), which is the highest artificial terrace of the Villa – a real Acropolis – and belongs to the Bulgarini family since the XVII century. Information on the Accademia strongly needs to be updated: the last excavations were made in the XIX century, the most recent (and incomplete) plan was published in 1950, while other surveys remained unpublished. The project consists of five main phases: 1. Collection of archive documents and previous bibliography: maps, plans, engravings and pictures, antiquarian and modern texts The project consists of five main phases: 1. Collection of archive documents and previous bibliography: maps, plans, engravings and pictures, antiquarian and modern texts
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