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Roger B. Ulrich

Roman Woodworking

Acknowledgments

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Roger B. Ulrich

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00107.002

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Acknowledgments

Over the past ten years I have benefited from many conversations with professional colleagues, museum curators, librarians, craftsmen, and students on the topics of ancient and modern woodworking. My first study season in 1994 was immensely boosted with the kind permission of Stefano de Caro and his staff at the Museo Nazionale of Naples, which allowed me to examine iron and bronze tools from Pompeii stored at the museum. In that same year I was permitted to study traces of wood in buildings from Pompeii and Herculaneum by the Soprintendente of Pompeii, Baldassare Conticello. Similar access was granted to me by the Soprintendente of Ostia, Anna Gallina Zevi. The initial results of the fieldwork in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia were published in 1996 with the encouragement and support of Fred Kleiner, at that time editor of the American Journal of Archaeology.

A highlight of a tour of collections in Britain in 1995 was an invitation to examine the Roman tools held in the Verulamium Museum, under the stewardship of the Keeper of Archaeology, Vivienne Holgate. Shortly thereafter Francis Grew of the Museum of London graciously shared his office with me for a day, where I was able to study many Roman woodworking tools in near-pristine condition discovered in London. In 1999, additional work on carbonized doors and furniture was undertaken at Herculaneum with the permission of Conticello’s successor, Soprintendente Pietro Giovanni Guzzo. My time at the site included a visit to the storerooms at Herculaneum to examine the singular pieces of carbonized furniture conserved there; these were published that same year in a comprehensive study by Stefan Mols, who would later allow me to include some of his drawings and photographs in the present volume.

I would also like to express gratitude to Christina Huemer and the staff of the library of the American Academy in Rome, and to the staff of the archaeological section of the Biblioteca del Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy, as well as to Reinhart Sonnenburg and other reference librarians at Baker-Berry Library at my home institution of Dartmouth College, the last for accommodating near-daily interlibrary loan requests for the better part of two years.

Thanks are due as well to Alessandro Bettagno of the Instituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte; Robin Birley of the Vindolanda Trust; Edward Bradley; Francesco Buranelli of the Vatican Museums; Andrea Bussmann of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Enrico Cavada; Gill Clark of the British School at Rome (London office); John Clarke; Angelica Condrau of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum; Francesca DeSimone; Sylvia Diebner of the Fototeca of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome; Norman Doenges; Omar Foelsche and Susan Bibeau of Humanities Computing at Dartmouth; Brad Goedkoop of Kingfisher Woodworks; M. Cristina Guidotti of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana; Kathy Hart of the Hood Museum; Hugh Kilmister of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology; Joan Mertens of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bethan Mogford of the British Museum; John Oleson; Lorenza Mochi Onori of the Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico e Demoetnoantropologico delle Marche; James Packer; Norm Roberson; Paola Rubino and Valeria Sampaolo of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta; Susan Simon of Curricular Computing at Dartmouth; Anna Mura Sommella of the Musei Capitolini, Rome; Roberta Stewart; and Elizabeth Sullivan.

I am grateful to Harry Haskell, Keith Condon, Lawrence Kenney, and the rest of the editorial staff of Yale University Press for the support they have shown for this project. Rabun Taylor evaluated the manuscript for the press and offered many valuable suggestions. Finally, I would like to thank the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Dartmouth College, the Petitt Family Fellowship, and especially the Associate Dean of the Humanities, Lenore Grenoble, for offering financial support to underwrite the publication costs of this book.

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