The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii

ISBN-13: 9780199263127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 549 str.

Penelope M. Allison; M. Varchetta; J. Agee

Opis

This book contains catalogues, analyses, photographs and drawings of some 2,000 archaeological artifacts excavated from the Insula of the Menander in Pompeii. The catalogues, and analyses are organized by provenance--buildings, rooms, and location within rooms--so that the reader can understand the artifacts as household assemblages. The functions of artifacts and groups of artifacts are discussed, as are the Latin names which are often given to these artifacts, and the relationships of these assemblages to the state of occupancy of the buildings in the Insula during the last years of Pompeii. This study, therefore, provides a wealth of information, not only on the range and use of artifacts in Pompeian houses but also on Roman artifacts, and Roman society, more generally.

Recenzje

Allison's analysis and thorough illustrated catalogue - the list of plates and figures alone takes up 35 pages of print - goes a long way towards characterising the components of the insula, the domestic units, the large atrium houses and gardens... the workshops, taverns and storerooms. Madeleine Hummler, Antiquity

O autorze

Penelope M. Allison is Lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester