In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that Portus lay at the heart of Rome's maritime fagade. As well as being a key Mediterranean centre for passengers and for the loading, unloading,...
In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber....
The San Vincenzo Project was aimed at developing the archaeological potential of the well-known ninth-century painted crypt of San Lorenzo and defining the general character of the early medieval monastery. This volume summarizes the archaeology of the ter
The San Vincenzo Project was aimed at developing the archaeological potential of the well-known ninth-century painted crypt of San Lorenzo and definin...
The brief title doesn't really reflect the wealth of information in the three reports in this book. Arising from the British School at Rome's archaeological survey in southern Etruria between 1950 and 1975, they provide important evidence for the transition years between Roman and Medieval. At Santa Cornelia, the abandoned site of a medieval monastic seat built from and among the remains of Roman buildings yielded detailed information about the background, origins and development of the monastery; at Santa Rufina, the traditional site of the burial and centre of the cult of the third century...
The brief title doesn't really reflect the wealth of information in the three reports in this book. Arising from the British School at Rome's archaeol...
Ashby's brick stamps forms the nucleus of a collection of some 350 different stamps in the American Academy at Rome. All are here published in full, though, since most can be found in CIL XV, it seems surprising that they have not been presented in a more economical format.
Ashby's brick stamps forms the nucleus of a collection of some 350 different stamps in the American Academy at Rome. All are here published in full, t...
This volume presents the second part of the report on the British School at Rome's excavations between 1980 and 1986 at the early medieval Benedictine abbey of San Vincenzo in Molise, central Italy. It contains discussion of the Vestibule, the Assembly room containing the reconstructed wall of painted prophets, the Refectory, the terraces, the hill-top cemetery, and the late Roman settlement. It also includes essays such as Christinas and Countrymen by Samuel Barnish, Monastic Lands and Monastic Patrons by Chris Wickham, and San Vincenzo and the Plan of Saint Gall by Richard Hodges.
This volume presents the second part of the report on the British School at Rome's excavations between 1980 and 1986 at the early medieval Benedictine...
