Author: Elizabeth FentressPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113637
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A presentation of seven years' archaeological excavation, research, and analysis of the site of Cosa
Cosa V
Author: Elizabeth FentressPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113637
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A presentation of seven years' archaeological excavation, research, and analysis of the site of Cosa
Cosa
Author: Jacquelyn Collins-ClintonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Cosa, a small Roman town, has been excavated since 1948 by the American Academy in Rome. This new volume presents the surviving sculpture and furniture in marble and other stones and examines their nature and uses. These artifacts provide an insight into not just life in a small Roman town but also its embellishment mainly from the late Republic and through the early Empire to the time of Hadrian. While public statuary is not well preserved, stone and marble material from the private sphere are well represented; domestic sculpture and furniture from the third century BCE to the first CE form by far the largest category of objects. The presence of these materials in both public and private spheres sheds light on the wealth of the town and individual families. The comparative briefness of Cosa’s life means that this material is more easily comprehensible as a whole for the entire town as excavated, compared for instance to the much larger cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The Messenger of Mathematics
Author: Elements of Theoretical Mechanics
Author: Alexander ZiwetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Cosa
Author: Kathleen SlanePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This long-awaited volume presents the work of Elizabeth Lyding Will on the important group of transport amphoras found at Cosa. This town has been widely recognized as a prototypical colony of the later Roman Republic and a source for trade with Gaul and Spain, so this publication of its finds has important implications for archaeologists and historians of the ancient world. Will’s initial work was on Latin amphora-stamps in the eastern Mediterranean, and through the 1960s and 1970s she developed an amphora typology based on materials found in the region and at Cosa. What has not been appreciated is that this typology was not limited to stamped Republican amphoras but also included unstamped vessels, such as imperial Spanish, African, and eastern amphoras dating as late as the fifth century CE. This book shows that Will was far ahead of her time in documenting the Mediterranean trade in commodities carried in amphoras: her work not only provides a record of the amphoras found on the town-site of Cosa, but also includes a comparison between the finds from the port and the town. At the time of Will’s death, her manuscript consisted of a typed catalogue of the amphora stamps from Cosa and an equal number of unstamped vessels, but was missing important elements. On the basis of extensive notes and photographs, Kathleen Warner Slane has reviewed and updated the manuscript, adding type descriptions and footnotes to materials that have appeared since Will’s death as well as a framing introduction and conclusions. Appendices highlight an Augustan amphora dump on the Arx and add a catalogue of the Greek amphora stamps found at Cosa. Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras will be of interest to scholars and students of Rome and its system of colonies, and also to those interested in Greek and Roman archaeology and trade in the ancient world.
The elements of graphical statics and their application to framed
Author: Augustus Jay Du BoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Mathematical Questions and Solutions in Continuation of the Mathematical Columns of "the Educational Times"
Author: A Key to the Exercises in Ollerdorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language
Author: VelazquezA Key to the Exercises in Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language
Author: Mariano Velázquez de la CadenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description