Red: done over the last few days. Green: to do before I leave next week. Looks doable. I am collecting an incredibly interesting dataset that might keep me happy (and busy) for considerable time in the near future. I can now tell you that I am looking at Pompeian façades at the moment. It is really refreshing to do something completely different in a site you know so well. I am learning quite a lot about the city that I didn’t already know. The façades are going to tell me quite a bit about the economic history of Pompeii in the future. And yes, I know will need to study the buildings behind some of them more intensively than I am doing now, but I can see the potential of the material. But more about that later once I have my first results to present. It’s still early days. Once I’ve done Pompeii, I think I should do Ostia. Maybe. If time. And money.
Miko Flohr, 25/06/2011