Guido Calza born in Milan

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 in Italy

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, was an Italian

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 archaeologist whose work included excavations in Rome

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 and at the port city of Ostia. Calza served as inspector of the Ostia excavations and as the director of excavations in the Forum Romanum and the Palatine Hill

Palatine Hill

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 in Rome. He also oversaw the excavation of the Isola Sacra Necropolis

Isola Sacra Necropolis

The Isola Sacra Necropolis was the first large-scale pagan cemetery of Roman Imperial times to be excavated. The excavator-in-chief of most of Isola Sacra was Guido Calza. The necropolis was found on the manmade island of Isola Sacra, which lies between the cities of Portus and Ostia Antica, a...

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Calza was the son of Arturo Calza.

Necrology

• "Dr. Guido Calza, archaeologist, 58; Excavator of Ostia, the Port of Rome, Dies -- Found Earliest Known Christian Church", New York Times Apr 24, 1946, p. 25.
• Obituary by Herbert Bloch
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  Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....
  
  "In Memoriam Guido Calza (1888-1946)." American Journal of Archaeology 50 (1946), 407-408.