The British School at Rome
Ann Hills on a major new appeal to aid a school famous for its archaeology and exhibitions.
On January 8th Sir Alan Campbell, British Ambassador to Rome 1976-79, will launch a major appeal for the British School at Rome to take it into the next century. His address will be given at the Italian Cultural Institute in London where the School's director, Dr Richard Hodges, is to lecture on its role in past and present archaeological excavations.
With a sense of history, Richard Hodges will refer back to Thomas Ashby, who became the School's first student in 1901, and five years later was appointed its director. On January 8th, 1900, Ashby was recording aspects of a dig at the Forum. 'The pavement of the Curia and the marble facing of the walls are perfect (porphyry and pavonazzetto), as far as a small excavation has shown. There were mosaics alla Fiorentina – rather rough but important...'
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