PAPERS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME This volume has been published with the aid of grants from the Marc Fitch Fund and the Dr M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation. PAPERS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME VOLUME LXVIII 2000 PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME, at THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON, SW1Y 5AH 77 »& 01/U 02-013-08 The British School at Rome, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y5AH Registered Charity No. 314176 ISSN 0068-2462 Printed in Great Britain Typeset and printed by Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd, Hertford, Great Britain CONTENTS PAGE ANDREW WALLACE-HADRILL, Timothy William Potter (1944-2000) viii SIMON KEAY, MARTIN MILLETT, SARAH POPPY, JULIA ROBINSON, JEREMY TAYLOR AND NICOLA TERRENATO, Falerii Novi: a new survey of the walled area 1 JANE STUART-SMITH, TWO South Picene inscriptions reread — CH.2 and AP.4 95 FRANCO DE ANGELIS, Estimating the agricultural base of Greek Sicily I l l JAS ELSNER, From the culture of spolia to the cult of relics: the Arch of Constantine and the genesis of late antique forms 149 MICHAEL MATHEUS, Borgo San Martino: an early medieval pilgrimage station on the Via Francigena near Sutri 185 EVELYN WELCH, Engendering Italian Renaissance art — a bibliographic review 201 KATE LOWE, Franciscan and papal patronage at the Clarissan convent of San Cosimato in Trastevere, 1440-1560 217 ROBERT SENECAL, Carlo Borromeo's Instructiones fabricae et supellectilis ecclesiasticae and its origins in the Rome of his time 241 P. PERKINS AND S. SCHAFER, The excavation of the Villa Pigneto Sacchetti 269 INTERIM REPORTS VEDIA E. IZZET, The Etruscan sanctuary at Cerveteri, Sant'Antonio: prelim- inary report of excavations 1995-8 321 R.J.A. WILSON, Rural settlement in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily: excava- tions at Campanaio (AG), 1994-8 337 NOTES OLIVER GILKES, SALLY MARTIN AND MICHAEL MATHEUS, Excavation and survey at Prati San Martino, Sutri 371 RICHARD HODGES AND JOHN MITCHELL, A new interpretation of the ninth- century hilltop (Colle della Torre) at San Vincenzo al Volturno 381 RESEARCH REPORTS BALSDON FELLOWSHIP (Ruth Whitehouse and John Wilkins); CARY FELLOWSHIP (Alastair Small); HUGH LAST FELLOWSHIP (Boris Rankov); ROME SCHOLARSHIPS IN ITALIAN STUDIES (Marios Costambeys, Nicholas Vella, Caroline Vout); HUGH LAST AWARD (Fay Glinister); ROME AWARDS (Anne Dunlop, Victoria James, Corinna Riva, Janet Robson); ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK SUPPORT (Edward Bispham and Susan Kane; Amanda Claridge; Neil Christie; Janet DeLaine and David Wilkinson; Martin Millett and Simon Keay; Ulla Rajala and Simon Stoddart) 387 SOMMARII 403 CONTRIBUTORS'ADDRESSES 408 The Papers of the British School at Rome exists to publish work related to the archaeology, history and literature of Italy and other parts of the mediterranean area up to early modern times, in the first instance by the staff of the School and by its present and former members. The Papers is edited by the Publications Advisory Committee of the Council of the British School and is a refereed journal. The present members of the Committee are: Dr L. Bourdua Dr G. Clark (Publications Manager, ex officio) Prof. A. Crawford Dr E. Dench Dr K. Lowe Dr S. Stoddart Prof. A. Wallace-Hadrill (Director of the School, ex officio) Mr B. Ward-Perkins (Editor of the Papers) Prof. C. Wickham (Chairperson) Prof. R. Wilson Intending contributors are advised to get in touch with the Publications Manager, British School at Rome, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, before preparing their papers in final form, since they will be required to conform to the conventions currently followed in the Papers. The British School also publishes a series of Supplementary Volumes and a series of Archaeological Monographs, to accommodate works on a scale larger than is suit- able for the Papers. The Papers is indexed in the Bibliography of the History of Art, published by the Getty Art History Information Progra