Listening to fascinating panel on new excavations on the Capitoline highlighting work especially in collaboration with the DAI in Rome with La Sovrintendenza Capitolina.
They may have found a whole complex of roof tiles from including decorated mold made elements and also post holes potentially associated with wooden equipment used in building (think cranes for lifting blocks). (7th to 3rd BCE is the date of the times)
The tiles seem to have been deposited in a phase of later construction. Perhaps in the post Pydna era when monumentalization takes off in the city. Parallels might be drawn with better understood phases on the Palatine in the sanctuary area of Victory and Magna Mater temples.
There is also clear documentation now of the temple podium that was incorporated/covered by the Prussian hospital.
non-sequitur.
I love the term ‘fiddle drill’!
I asked for clarification of the opening remarks that briefly highlighted of the importance of archival work, specifically comparing older drawings of the hill and Severan map to identify the temple of fides on the Capitoline. Ortwin Dally praised the book of Rousse [sp? – must find reference and link], while also pointing out that the temple is at the foot of the hill, perhaps better associated with the sanctuary area of San Omobono. He wondered how we disentangle the surviving fragments to confirm they really come from a single temple rather than multiple structures. He also pointed to the literary testimony, particularly Livy. Fides was attested to be one of the earliest temples, before Ops and Mens. Livy also discusses the removal of statues. Yet matching names of temples attested literature as ‘on the Capitoline” to archaeological structures remains difficult. On avenue for future exploration is the attested finds of military diplomas found on Capitoline [I must learn more on these!].
I did not hear the whole paper on the roof tiles to catch Carbone and Sharpless speaking on archaeological finds of coins at the villa of Hadrian. They did such an amazing job. I hate these parallel sessions and dashing between different panels to catch individual papers, but this is how we conference….
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
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