by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti
How to lead a pleasant live on the Sahara’s border and be protected from the torrid heat of the summer ghibli. I already wrote about how in ancient times one could be protected by winter cold (On my site: Villa Adriana: Ancient Central heating system) and described how low temperature could be faced. ... more
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Other Articles
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Central Heating system
The Maritime Theatre: Hadrian’s Pied à terre at V.A.
Theories and datation of the Maritime Theatre
Antinous' obelisk
Garden of Antinous' tomb
Lead and its importance for the archaeological research
The Academy Nymphaeum.
The Palace's Nymphaeum
The so called Stadium garden
Augustus times' nymphaeum
The so called Throne Hall.
Small garden in the great Entrance Hall
Piazza d'Oro - Normal watering and irrigation by capillarity
The Piazza d'Oro garden.
Canopus' gardens
The other tricliniar areas
Villa Adriana's imperial tricliniar areas: the Canopus
The two baths
Lavacra pro sexibus separavit
Book about Villa Adriana
The Great Trapeze
The Great Subterranean Carriages Road
Villa Adriana map
The Canopus
Antinous' tomb
In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more