Between 1946 and 1997 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less useful. AIAC’s board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the publication and to seek a new way of recording and diffusing new results. The Fasti Online is the result of this effort. The aim of the site is to provide a database of excavations since 2000, providing a record in English and in the local language for each season. Each participating country is responsible for uploading the data it gathers. The site comprises the database Fasti Online and an online peer-reviewed journal FOLD&R. for fuller excavation reports: we have now published approximatly 600 long reports for Italy.
The project was started with the support of the Packard Humanities Institute. It has subsequently developed partnerships with ICCROM, and the Center for the Study of Ancient Italy at the University of Texas at Austin. The project has since been generously supported by the Baron Lorne Thyssen, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, the Classical Association, the Ukrainian Studies Fund of Harvard University, the Oxford Journal of Archaeology and the European Projects ARIADNE and ARIADNE+
Today Fasti Online with the journal FOLD&R is on the new Omeka platform. The adaptation of the website to the new platform was carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) in collaboration with the editorial board of Fasti Online and FOLD&R. It was funded by the AIAC, in part through our participation in the European project ARIADNE+, and by the Donald Atkinson Fund of the Roman Society.
Contact and submission information:
Scientific Director: Elizabeth Fentress
FOLD&R Italy Editors: Maria Grazia Celuzza, Elena Chirico
FOLD&R Survey Editors: Tesse D. Stek, Anita Casarotto
Scientific Secretariat and Coordination for Indexing: Alberto Martín Esquivel
Emails:
FOLD&R Italy – fastionline@aiac.org
FOLD&R Survey – t.d.stek@knir.it, a.casarotto@knir.it
