Fieldwork Complete

The 2010 field season drew to a close at the beginning of August, with the members of the project team returning to their native lands (generally without incident). Given the financial constraints under which we were operating, the project must be judged to have been a complete success. In 17 days, 28 houses and over 550 doorways were surveyed, new friends were made (ciao zio Vincenzo!), and many a strange field song was penned. Again, thanks to the team, who, though sunburned and full of tomatoes/cheese/bread/tuna, were always in good spirits and worked tirelessly to complete the project on time. I could not have hoped for a better group of students.Though fieldwork is now complete, the Doors of Pompeii and Herculaneum Project blog will continue to be updated as data analysis progresses. I intend to give papers summarizing the results of this season's work both in the United States and UK over the coming months; the details of these talks will be posted here as they become available. Stay tuned!

We don't need no stinkin' badges.

Actually, that's not exactly true. We did need stinkin' badges, so we purchased some, and now there are extras (see image below). If, dear reader, you are interested in picking up a Doors of Pompeii and Herculaneum Project badge (or pin, as we call them in good ole' U.S. of A.), please send me an email and I will dispatch one (or indeed two or three) to you free of charge, while supplies last.

Field Update

Jim entertains the tourists

Halfway through the 2010 field season, the Doors of Pompeii and Herculaneum Project is progressing on schedule. To date, the team has analyzed over 300 doorways in a wide variety of domestic settings, establishing a corpus of data that will, no doubt, take the director a great many weeks to sort through (though he is looking forward to the task with much enthusiasm). We will be moving to Herculaneum later this week to continue survey in a further six houses, with fieldwork concluding in the middle of next week. Many thanks to everyone who has made the project a success so far, including the Soprintendenza and Direzione at Pompeii, the staff at Camping Zeus, and, of course, the DPHP team itself - Catherine, Katie, Janet, and Jim.

Project Dates Finalized

The Doors of Pompeii and Herculaneum Project team will be in Campania from July 17th-August 3rd, 2010; specific dates at each site will be determined shortly. We look forward to meeting the other teams in the field this summer.

Postgraduate seminar date change

Due to a conflict with the Munro lecture series, the date of next week's postgraduate seminar has been moved to Friday, March 12th at 5 PM.