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Pozzuoli is located at the center of the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples and is famous for its anomalous subsidence and upheaval documented since the Roman period. Its secular and gradual subsidence can be interpreted as self-loading compaction of the caldera fills while abrupt upheavals are geologically suspected to be caused by magmagenic movements or steam forces. In order to interpret the origin and the process of the Pozzuoli upheavals, they are compared with active volcanisms represented by the 1977-1982 eruption of Usu volcano in Hokkaido. Usu volcano outburst in 1977 in major pumice eruptions and repeated magmatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions, and manifested remarkable ground deformations accompanying earthquake swarms. In 1969, the ground of Pozzuoli began to upheave with increases in seismicity but finally failed to cause any eruptive phenomena at the surface; nevertheless there are common characteristics of their motives and processes between the two events. The motive of the Usu deformation is clearly due to magma movements while that of the Pozzuoli upheaval has not been completely settled. A quantitative relationship between seismicity and deformation gives a clue for discussing the motive of the Pozzuoli deformations. The discharge rates of seismic energy and the deformation rates are compared between the two events and a certain similarity is found. This suggests that the origin of the Pozzuoli event may be partly magmatic as well as the Usu eruption, but its behavior largely depends on the property of the caldera deposits. When their deformation volumes are taken into consideration, their characteristics become quantitatively conspicuous. The ground at Pozzuoli is much more easily deformed by the upward motive force than Usu volcano. This is due to the rheological property of the caldera deposits of Campi Flegrei, and agrees to the theory that interprets the secular subsidence observed in historical times, as self-loading compaction. It is interesting that there is a point of contact between anomalous movements of the ground along the seashore in Italy and remarkable magmatic movements at the active volcano in Japan.

Il contributo di A. Buccaro ha riguardato l'analisi storica di un'area parte dell'insediamento dell'antica Puteoli, con l'individuazione delle relative fonti doumentarie e iconografiche, nonché una ricostruzione della vicenda evolutiva della topografia urbana e delle architetture ivi esistenti. Lo studio è stato redatto nell'ambito di un lavoro di équipe finalizzato al recupero dell'insula 14 del Rione Terra.

Compositional investigations were performed on 81 Roman and medieval glass fragments (first to 14th centuries AD) from four Italian archaeological sites. The samples were soda-lime-silica in composition, with natron as flux for the Roman and early medieval glass samples, and with plant ash as flux for the late medieval ones. The varying colours are due to the differing FeO, Fe 2 O 3 , MnO and Sb 2 O 3 contents. Hierarchical cluster analysis identified six compositional groups related to age, which were compared with those found in the literature. In this way, technological continuity from the Roman to the early medieval period and the appearance of plant ash technology in the ninth century, 200 years in advance of the period previously believed. are demonstrated.

L'articolo propone una nuova integrazione per un epigramma in esametri rinvenuto nel 1897 a Pozzuoli.

La pubblicazione presenta cinque iscrizioni greche inedite da Pozzuoli.

Si procede con una analisi sul campo a registrare e a vagliare le risorse dell'area vasta della Solfatara sullo sfondo dell'ipotesi di un grande Parco Naturale.Le risorse agricole , paesaggistiche , ecologiche , scientifiche , archeologiche , storiche e il relativo stato di consistenza e modo d'uso.L'intervento e le eventuali opere a farsi vertono alla conservazione autentica dell'immagine e degli spazi suggestivi ,mentre una parte consistente è destinata al consolidamento statico delle murature e delle strutture orizzontali dei manufatti rurali.In generale le metodiche di intervento individuate sono :Diradamento verticale e orizzontale-Riconversione-Adattamento-Riuso.