Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 220308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Zuchtriegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuchtriegel |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCHTRIEGEL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Archaeological Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8629-7383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Casa del Fauno in Pompeii
The compositional study of the ancient mortars, carried out through macroscopic observations, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transmitted polarized light optical microscopy (OM), combined with multivariate statistical analysis (PCA), has provided important new insights into the process of understanding the building history of the Casa del Fauno in Pompeii. This concerns above all the final phase of the house, designated CdF 3, carried out after the …
Multi-analytical procedure for radiocarbon dating of Pozzolana mortars from public buildings in Pompeii
Roman mortars were typically composed of an air-hardening lime mixed with materials exhibiting pozzolanic behaviour (e.g., pozzolana or cocciopesto), which conferred hydraulic properties to the material. So far, many characterizations of pozzolanic mortars have been carried out, revealing their complexity. The feasibility of radiocarbon dating for such mortars remains debated, with published data even suggesting that it may not be a viable method…
Unveiling Roman practices in plant resource management and commercial use. The case of the archaeobotanical assemblage in room 42 Villa b – Oplontis (1st century CE)
A multidisciplinary bioarchaeological approach to diet at Oplontis (Pompeii)
Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative natur…
On the Trail of the “Trembling” Pompeii (Italy)
Ancient Pompeii is known worldwide for having been destroyed by the Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. However, the city experienced a prolonged period of seismicity preceding the catastrophe, beginning with a major earthquake in 62 CE, the effects of which are identifiable in the archaeological structures. This study examines multiple lines of evidence for superimposed, ancient seismic damage in four contexts excavated between 2018 and 2025,…
Olive diversity in Pompeii
The exceptional preservation of archaeological remains in the Vesuvian area offers a unique taphonomic window into Roman agricultural practices. This study presents a geometric morphometric analysis, using Elliptical Fourier Transforms (EFT), applied to an extensive dataset of charred olive stones ( Olea europaea L.) recovered from the combustion structures of two bakeries in Pompeii. Rather than focusing exclusively on urban consumption, these f…
Unveiling the Volcanic History of Ancient Pompeii (Italy)
Many volcanological and geoarchaeological studies in the ancient city of Pompeii (Italy) have been devoted to the 79 CE Plinian eruption of Vesuvius, which sealed the city under a thick pyroclastic sequence. Only fragmentary information exists regarding the stratigraphy of the volcanic sediments sandwiched between the 79 CE street level and the volcanic rocks that form the geological framework of the hill on which Pompeii was built, which constit…
Characterization of Stone Tesserae from “Praedia Iuliae Felicis” Mosaics (Pompeii—Italy)
This work illustrates the results of an archaeometric investigation performed on 29 stone tesserae collected from 2021 to 2024 during the restoration campaigns of three mosaic floors at Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii (Campania, Italy). The tesserae were studied through a micro-analytical approach using Polarized Optical Microscopy (POM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Electron Probe Micro…
Analytical study of a newly excavated fine painted ceiling at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
In-situ and laboratory analyses on fragmented ceiling in Pompeii’s Regio IX insula . • It displays unique fourth Pompeian style artistry with remarkable chromatic vividness. • Spectroscopic techniques revealed a rich Roman palette in the pigment study. • An unusual execution technique suggest remarkable skill of the painters. • Salt extraction tests showed no harmful compounds damaging the mural actually. This work concerns an in situ and laborat…
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials
Eingegangene Bücher
The Making of the Doric Temple
In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentou…
The newly discovered tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio at the Porta Sarno, Pompeii
The tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio was discovered in July 2021 in the necropolis of Porta Sarno at Pompeii. This paper contextualizes it against the backdrop of 1st-c. CE burial customs and social history. The inscription on the pediment shows that the tomb owner was a former public slave who, after manumission, rose to the rank of the Augustales; he was a “custodian” of the temple of Venus, and he organized “Greek and Latin games/performances.…
Isocrates and the paideia of the Lucanians
Building on studies emphasizing the discursive nature of ethnicity and culture in ancient Greece, the paper argues that culture and ethnicity were closely linked from the Classical period onward. In particular, the author aims to demonstrate that at the time when Isocrates conceptualized for the first time something that resembles the modern notion of “culture” (which he calls paideusis or paideia), the idea of an ethnic dimension of culture was …
Revealing the mysteries of the Chora of Metaponto
The series of volumes edited by Joseph Carter on the rural landscape around the Greek colony of Metapontum in southern Italy represent a slow but steady revolution in the field of Classical studies. This latest addition to the series presents the results of excavations at the rural site of Pantanello, near modern Metaponto, first launched by the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Austin in 1974. At that time, Classical archae…
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as ar…
Colonisation and hybridity in Herakleia and its hinterland (southern Italy), 5th-3rd centuries BC
The paper discusses how postcolonial approaches might be applied to the archaeology of the Ionian Coast in southern Italy during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Until now, postcolonial approaches here have been limited largely to so-called « mixed settlements » of the 7th century BC and, to a lesser degree, to the Imperial period. However, postcolonial approaches might also be useful for a better understanding of the Classical and Hellenis…
An open-air sanctuary on an amphora by the Pittore delle Gru and the cult of Artemis in early Etruria
The paper deals with the iconography and meaning of an Orientalizing amphora in the National Museum at Madrid. The vase has been attributed to the «Pittore delle Gru» by M. Martelli. According to the interpretation given by the author, the painting on it shows an open-air cult place in a grove. Cult places of this kind are mainly known through archaeological fieldwork and literary evidence of later periods, whereas a contemporary representation a…
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as ar…
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials
The newly discovered tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio at the Porta Sarno, Pompeii
The tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio was discovered in July 2021 in the necropolis of Porta Sarno at Pompeii. This paper contextualizes it against the backdrop of 1st-c. CE burial customs and social history. The inscription on the pediment shows that the tomb owner was a former public slave who, after manumission, rose to the rank of the Augustales; he was a “custodian” of the temple of Venus, and he organized “Greek and Latin games/performances.…
Isocrates and the paideia of the Lucanians
Building on studies emphasizing the discursive nature of ethnicity and culture in ancient Greece, the paper argues that culture and ethnicity were closely linked from the Classical period onward. In particular, the author aims to demonstrate that at the time when Isocrates conceptualized for the first time something that resembles the modern notion of “culture” (which he calls paideusis or paideia), the idea of an ethnic dimension of culture was …
Colonisation and hybridity in Herakleia and its hinterland (southern Italy), 5th-3rd centuries BC
The paper discusses how postcolonial approaches might be applied to the archaeology of the Ionian Coast in southern Italy during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Until now, postcolonial approaches here have been limited largely to so-called « mixed settlements » of the 7th century BC and, to a lesser degree, to the Imperial period. However, postcolonial approaches might also be useful for a better understanding of the Classical and Hellenis…
An open-air sanctuary on an amphora by the Pittore delle Gru and the cult of Artemis in early Etruria
The paper deals with the iconography and meaning of an Orientalizing amphora in the National Museum at Madrid. The vase has been attributed to the «Pittore delle Gru» by M. Martelli. According to the interpretation given by the author, the painting on it shows an open-air cult place in a grove. Cult places of this kind are mainly known through archaeological fieldwork and literary evidence of later periods, whereas a contemporary representation a…
Colonisation and hybridity in Herakleia and its hinterland (southern Italy), 5th-3rd centuries BC
The paper discusses how postcolonial approaches might be applied to the archaeology of the Ionian Coast in southern Italy during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Until now, postcolonial approaches here have been limited largely to so-called « mixed settlements » of the 7th century BC and, to a lesser degree, to the Imperial period. However, postcolonial approaches might also be useful for a better understanding of the Classical and Hellenis…
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as ar…
Revealing the mysteries of the Chora of Metaponto
The series of volumes edited by Joseph Carter on the rural landscape around the Greek colony of Metapontum in southern Italy represent a slow but steady revolution in the field of Classical studies. This latest addition to the series presents the results of excavations at the rural site of Pantanello, near modern Metaponto, first launched by the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Austin in 1974. At that time, Classical archae…
Isocrates and the paideia of the Lucanians
Building on studies emphasizing the discursive nature of ethnicity and culture in ancient Greece, the paper argues that culture and ethnicity were closely linked from the Classical period onward. In particular, the author aims to demonstrate that at the time when Isocrates conceptualized for the first time something that resembles the modern notion of “culture” (which he calls paideusis or paideia), the idea of an ethnic dimension of culture was …
The newly discovered tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio at the Porta Sarno, Pompeii
The tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio was discovered in July 2021 in the necropolis of Porta Sarno at Pompeii. This paper contextualizes it against the backdrop of 1st-c. CE burial customs and social history. The inscription on the pediment shows that the tomb owner was a former public slave who, after manumission, rose to the rank of the Augustales; he was a “custodian” of the temple of Venus, and he organized “Greek and Latin games/performances.…
The Making of the Doric Temple
In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentou…
Eingegangene Bücher
Unveiling the Volcanic History of Ancient Pompeii (Italy)
Many volcanological and geoarchaeological studies in the ancient city of Pompeii (Italy) have been devoted to the 79 CE Plinian eruption of Vesuvius, which sealed the city under a thick pyroclastic sequence. Only fragmentary information exists regarding the stratigraphy of the volcanic sediments sandwiched between the 79 CE street level and the volcanic rocks that form the geological framework of the hill on which Pompeii was built, which constit…
Characterization of Stone Tesserae from “Praedia Iuliae Felicis” Mosaics (Pompeii—Italy)
This work illustrates the results of an archaeometric investigation performed on 29 stone tesserae collected from 2021 to 2024 during the restoration campaigns of three mosaic floors at Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii (Campania, Italy). The tesserae were studied through a micro-analytical approach using Polarized Optical Microscopy (POM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Electron Probe Micro…
Analytical study of a newly excavated fine painted ceiling at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
In-situ and laboratory analyses on fragmented ceiling in Pompeii’s Regio IX insula . • It displays unique fourth Pompeian style artistry with remarkable chromatic vividness. • Spectroscopic techniques revealed a rich Roman palette in the pigment study. • An unusual execution technique suggest remarkable skill of the painters. • Salt extraction tests showed no harmful compounds damaging the mural actually. This work concerns an in situ and laborat…
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials
The Casa del Fauno in Pompeii
The compositional study of the ancient mortars, carried out through macroscopic observations, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transmitted polarized light optical microscopy (OM), combined with multivariate statistical analysis (PCA), has provided important new insights into the process of understanding the building history of the Casa del Fauno in Pompeii. This concerns above all the final phase of the house, designated CdF 3, carried out after the …
Multi-analytical procedure for radiocarbon dating of Pozzolana mortars from public buildings in Pompeii
Roman mortars were typically composed of an air-hardening lime mixed with materials exhibiting pozzolanic behaviour (e.g., pozzolana or cocciopesto), which conferred hydraulic properties to the material. So far, many characterizations of pozzolanic mortars have been carried out, revealing their complexity. The feasibility of radiocarbon dating for such mortars remains debated, with published data even suggesting that it may not be a viable method…
Unveiling Roman practices in plant resource management and commercial use. The case of the archaeobotanical assemblage in room 42 Villa b – Oplontis (1st century CE)
A multidisciplinary bioarchaeological approach to diet at Oplontis (Pompeii)
Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative natur…
On the Trail of the “Trembling” Pompeii (Italy)
Ancient Pompeii is known worldwide for having been destroyed by the Plinian eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. However, the city experienced a prolonged period of seismicity preceding the catastrophe, beginning with a major earthquake in 62 CE, the effects of which are identifiable in the archaeological structures. This study examines multiple lines of evidence for superimposed, ancient seismic damage in four contexts excavated between 2018 and 2025,…
Olive diversity in Pompeii
The exceptional preservation of archaeological remains in the Vesuvian area offers a unique taphonomic window into Roman agricultural practices. This study presents a geometric morphometric analysis, using Elliptical Fourier Transforms (EFT), applied to an extensive dataset of charred olive stones ( Olea europaea L.) recovered from the combustion structures of two bakeries in Pompeii. Rather than focusing exclusively on urban consumption, these f…
Archaeology (10 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Building materials and conservation (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works)