Resumen de Scultori, redemptores, marmorarii ed officinae nella Puteoli romana: Fonti storiche ed archeologiche per lo studio del problema
This article takes its cue from the new exhibition at the archaeological museum of Campi Flegrei in the Castle of Baia, to explain the range of data today available on artists, artisans and marble contractors active in Roman Puteoli. This is a brief summary of the data noted in the so-called workshop of the plasterers of Baia – hypothetically based in Pozzuoli – and a close examination of the personalities attested in the literary sources follows, in particular the letters of Cicero, in some way connected to Puteoli. The second part of the work is dedicated to the study of the epigraphic evidence relative to the marmorarii, redemptores and officinae, for the most part held at the Museum of Baia. Finally, the only Puteolian workshop, for which we have archaeological data, is examined: the context of the so-called ‘portico of the nymphs’ today submerged, but investigated repeatedly between the end of the 9th century and the 1970s. An examination of the finds reconstructs the chronology and the activity of the workshop; the training of the workers; the type of products and the marble used.
