Architecture in Ancient Central Italy

Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building
Herausgeber: Potts, Charlotte R

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Exploring central Italic architecture as part of a connected world brings together one of the most prominent themes in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in recent decades, namely connectivity, and a body of evidence that has often been overlooked in many studies of ancient construction, technology, society, economy, and even the archaeology of early Italy, to wit architecture in Etruria and Latium. Such a partnership is an invitation to move beyond the study of individual elements of structures or sites, for example mouldings or terracottas, and instead use such studies to reconstruct a larger picture of architecture in this region as a discipline and to position it more broadly in space and time"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781108931380
• ISBN-10: 1108931383
• Artikelnr.: 69074784

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: building connections Charlotte R. Potts; 2. The silent
roofing revolution: the Etruscan Tie-beam Truss Jean MacIntosh Turfa; 3.
Architectural terracottas of central Italy within their wider Mediterranean
context Nancy A. Winter; 4. The connective evidence for early Roman
urbanism: terracottas and architectural accretion John Hopkins; 5.
Connecting foundations and roofs: the Satricum sacellum and the S. Omobono
sanctuary Patricia S. Lulof and Loes Opgenhaffen; 6. Architectural choices
in Etruscan sacred areas: Tarquinia in its Mediterranean setting Giovanna
Bagnasco Gianni; 7. Connections in death: Etruscan tomb architecture,
c.800-400 BC Stephan Steingräber.