Book Description
Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.
Author : Charlotte R. Potts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1108845282
Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.
Author : Susan B. Downey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780472105717
The Regia was the house of the Pontifex Maximus, Rome's High Priest, who lived in the Forum. The men who held this office played an important role in the life of the Roman state for centuries: the earliest Regia dates to the seventh century B.C.E., and it was rebuilt frequently. Susan B. Downey has extensively studied the sixth-century phase of the building, and in this valuable work she lays out the scheme for the architectural terracottas. These fragments allow the reconstruction of almost the entire decorative system for the building. Art historians and archaeologists will welcome this book. It also contains much of interest for Roman social historians and for students and scholars of early Italy and its communities.
Author : Kyle M. Phillips, Jr.
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780934718967
This publication present an overview of the author's 20 years of excavation at the Etruscan site of Murlo. Phillips offers his perspective on the site and theories about its functions. The introduction by David and Francesca Ridgway places this important site in the perspective of our current knowledge of the Etruscans. Ingrid Edlund-Berry and the author have compiled an extensive annotated bibliography for the site. This volume will be invaluable to scholars and of interest to anyone intrigued by the mystery of the Etruscans.
Author : Patricia Lulof
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1789253136
Temples are the most prestigious buildings in the urban landscape of ancient Italy, emerging within a network of centres of the then-known Mediterranean world. Notwithstanding the fragmentary condition of the buildings’ remains, these monuments – and especially their richly decorated roofs – are crucial sources of information on the constitution of political, social and craft identities, acting as agents in displaying the meaning of images. The subject of this volume is thematic and includes material from the Eastern Mediterranean (including Greece and Turkey). Contributors discuss the network between patron elites and specialized craft communities that were responsible for the sophisticated terracotta decoration of temples in Italy between 600 and 100 BC, focusing on the mobility of craft people and craft traditions and techniques, asking how images, iconographies, practices and materials can be used to explain the organization of ancient production, distribution and consumption. Special attention has been given to relations with the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece and Anatolia). Investigating craft communities, workshop organizations and networks has never been thoroughly undertaken for this period and region, nor for this exceptionally rich category of materials, or for the craftspeople producing the architectural terracottas. Papers in this volume aim to improve our understanding of roof production and construction in this period, to reveal relationships between main production centres, and to study the possible influences of immigrant craftspeople.
Author : Charlotte Rose Potts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0198722079
Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people whoused them.
Author : Kyle A. Jazwa
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1621390470
This study presents the Early Helladic II ceramic roofing tile fragments from Zygouries, a site excavated by Carl Blegen more than a century ago. It is the first publication of an entire assemblage of Early Helladic roofing tiles, an oft-neglected find on archaeological sites. Details about the tiles' forms, features, and variability are presented first, followed by a production-oriented analysis reconstructing much of the chaIne operatoire and complementary volumetric and energetic analyses. The results of these studies allow for the local reception and sociopolitical implications of Zygouries's ceramic-tiled roof to be explored. The assemblage is then contextualized alongside other Early Helladic roofing tile assemblages and the material culture of the period to gain a clearer understanding of the broader cultural significance of such tiledroofs.
Author : Simone Garagnani
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8878147869
Non è stato inserito nullaGli Atti del Convegno Internazionale "KAINUA 2017. Knowledge, Analysis and Innovative Methods for the Study and the Dissemination of Ancient Urban Areas", a cura di S. Garagnani e A. Gaucci, sono pubblicati nella rivista «Archeologia e Calcolatori», n. 28, tomo 2. Il Convegno, in onore del 70° Compleanno del Professor Giuseppe Sassatelli, si è tenuto a Bologna presso il Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà dell'Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna nell'aprile 2017. Più di cinquanta articoli, suddivisi in 6 sezioni (1. Ancient Cities: Past and Current Perspectives; 2. Kainua Project; 3. Etruscan Cities and their Landscapes: New Perspectives, Innovative Methods and Dissemination; 4. From the Ancient Cities to the Landscapes: Projects and Researches; 5. Starting and Ongoing Projects; 6. Methodologies, Applications and Integrated Solutions) affrontano il tema delle ricerche sulle città antiche e il loro territorio basate sull'applicazione di metodologie innovative. Particolare attenzione è stata data ai risultati del progetto sulla città etrusca di Marzabotto, l'antica Kainua, e ai progetti che interessano i principali centri etruschi dell'Italia antica, a cui si sono dedicate due sezioni specifiche.
Author : Örjan Wikander
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Acquarossa (Extinct city)
ISBN :
Author : Paul M. Miller
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784915815
Etruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period. This book reconsiders these changes by focusing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures.
Author : Simon K.F. Stoddart
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0810863049
The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Era. Having, at one time, control over a significant part of the Mediterranean, the Etruscans laid the foundation of the city of Rome. They had their own language, which has never been totally decoded, and their art influenced such artists as Michelangelo. While the Etruscans were eventually conquered by the Romans, they left a rich culture behind. The Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans relates the history of this culture, focusing on aspects of their material culture and art history. A chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, appendix of museums and research institutes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions provide an entry into a comparative study of the Etruscans.