Reconstucting ancient Rome from its more than 50k inscriptions is the promise of the ERC funded INROME research project hosted at the renowned Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. A truly fascinating project, as it promises to lay out ancient Rome on a neighborhood scale, which in turn, would permit mechanics of and dynamics of quarters from economic, social, ‘ethnic’, and religious perspective.
Thanks to FWO, I have the great opportunity to spend six weeks with the PI, the wonderful Barbara Borg, and her fantastic team specialised on acient Rome. My aim is to learn more about the ideas behind the project and to consider how I could use the methods this project develops and the maps it creates to literally map the migrants living in Rome. A cooperation promises great synergy effects, as the data collected on migrants can be used to bring further complexity to Rome, now remodeled at a neighborhood scale.