Education

10/2022 –
Member of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS). Enrolled in the program “Landscape Archaeology and Architecture” (LAA)
Founded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

10/2022 –
Doctoral student in Classical Archaeology at the Freie Universität in Berlin

2018 – 2021
Master’s Degree in Classical Archaeology at the Sapienza University in Rome

2014 – 2018
Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Archaeology at the Sapienza University in Rome

2007 – 2012
Classical High School Diplom

Work experiences

08 – 10/2024 
Archaeogical surveyor (internship)
Capitoline Hill, Rome. “Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Digital documentation and processing of surveying data

08 – 10/2023
Archaeogical surveyor (internship)
Capitoline Hill, Rome. “Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Digital documentation and processing of surveying data

09/2022
Research collaborator
“Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Post-processing of surveying data

08 – 09/2022
Archaeogical surveyor (internship)
Capitoline Hill, Rome. “Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Digital documentation and processing of surveying data

06 – 07/2022 
Field archaeologist
Pompeii, Italy. Project « DELPO. Espaces urbains de production et histoire des techniques à Délos et à Pompéi», École française de Rome and École française d’Athènes, University of Rouen.
Excavation and documentation of a bread oven

05/2022
Research collaborator
“Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Post-processing of surveying data

11/2021 – 01/2022
Research collaborator
“Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Post-processing of surveying data

08 – 10/2021
Archaeogical surveyor (internship)
Capitoline Hill, Rome. “Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Excavation and digital documentation - processing of surveying data

08 – 09/2019 
Material Analysis
Capitoline Hill, Rome. “Kapitol” project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rom
Processing and analysis of finds. Digital documentation of pottery (Laser Aided Profiler)

07/2019
Field archaeologist
Pompeii, Italy. Project « DELPO. Espaces urbains de production et histoire des techniques à Délos et à Pompéi», École française de Rome and École française d’Athènes, University of Rouen.
Metallurgical workshop - excavation, documentation, processing and analysis of finds

Capitolium erat caput mundi: a study of the topographical and historical development of the Capitoline Hill in Rome

The project explores the historical and topographical development of the Capitoline Hill in Rome from the 6th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The Capitoline, one of the most symbolically charged and politically central spaces of ancient Rome, is examined through a holistic and diachronic approach that combines archaeological data, literary sources, and archival documentation. The main objective of the project is to identify and interpret processes of continuity, transformation, and rupture in the urban configuration of the hill. Special attention is given to the spatial organisation as a socially produced phenomenon, shaped by historical circumstances and evolving ideological frameworks. As part of the research, sculptural artefacts and inscriptions from the Capitoline Hill, its slopes and in other places but refereble to the hill are catalogued and critically re-evaluated. Sculptural artefacts and inscriptions from the Capitoline Hill, its surrounding slopes, and from other sites but referable to it, are systematically catalogued and subjected to critical reassessment. Part of the work consists of an attempt to contextualise these elements also topographically, to evaluate and understand their communicative value and their use in space. The study is conducted with the support of a geographical information system (QGIS), that will aid the analysis of the spatial and topographical development of the hill in the different historical phases and will allow the elaboration of phase plans.

The project is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and is carried out within the frame of the Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA) programme of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS). It is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ortwin Dally (DAI Rome/FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Monika Trümper (FU Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Papini (Sapienza University of Rome).

2022
R. Santinelli, “L’otium è rivelatore”. Imperatori e otium tra archeologia e letteratura: Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, 11-13 maggio 2022, in: BStLat, II, 52, Napoli 2022, pp. 697-700

2021
R. Santinelli, I depositi votivi nell’Italia centrale, in: M. Papini (Ed.), Arte Romana (new edition), Firenze 2021, pp. 154-155.

B. de Santis, R. Santinelli, Ampolle con vedute del litorale flegreo, in: M. Papini (Ed.), Arte Romana (new edition), Firenze 2021, pp. 502-503.