After thirty busy years spent in Rome, passing from student to director of the Insfitutum Romanum Finlandiae, and ten not less busy years at the University of Oxford, I spent the first decade of my refirement finishing the publicafions I owed the Vafican and the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. Thereafter I returned to the field where my Italian experience started sixty years ago: my last big project consists in a new, digital edifion of Roman brick stamps, Bolli doliari romani dell'Italia centro-occidentale, which is published at the website of the Finnish Insfitute at Rome (bollidoliari.org). The bonds to Rome remain strong.
