COSA III: THE BUILDINGS OF THE FORUM Colony, Municipium, and Village
by Brown, Frank E. & Emeline Richardson & L. Richardson
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0271008253
- ISBN 13
- 9780271008257
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Pennsylvania State University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0271008253 . Corners are bumped else NF. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping and a couple of small closed tears along bottom edge. ; The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XXXVII; 431 pages; Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, perhaps on land confiscated from the Etruscans. One of the last textual references to Cosa comes from the work of Rutilius Claudius Namatianus in his De reditu suo. In the passage 1.285-90, Rutilius remarks that by 416 the site of Cosa was deserted and could be seen to be in ruins. In the 20th century, Cosa was the site of excavations carried out under the auspices of the American Academy in Rome, initially under the direction of the archaeologist Frank Edward Brown. Excavations (1948-54, 1965-72) have traced the city plan, the principal buildings, the port, and have uncovered the Arx, the forum, and a number of houses. Unexcavated buildings include a bathing establishment, but no trace of a theater or an amphitheater has been found. In the 1990s a limited series of excavations were carried out under the direction of Elizabeth Fentress, then associated with the American Academy in Rome. This latter campaign aimed at understanding the history of the site between the imperial period and the middle agest. Sample excavations took place over the whole site, with larger excavations on the Arx, the Eastern Height and around the Forum. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1612
- Title
- COSA III: THE BUILDINGS OF THE FORUM Colony, Municipium, and Village
- Author
- Brown, Frank E. & Emeline Richardson & L. Richardson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0271008253
- ISBN 13
- 9780271008257
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Place of Publication
- University Park, Pa
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0271008253, Rome, Art And Architecture, Reference, Roman Architecture, Archaeology, Roman History, Classical Greek & Roman
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- Archaeology; Art & Architecture;
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