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The Architecture of Petra
Mckenzie, Judith
This is an enormous and impressive book that is not only full of facts, but that also solves mysteries. It provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Then, in seeking the origins of Petra's particular architecture and its close relations with the architectural scenes on the walls of Pompeii, Judith McKenzie examines the rock cut tombs of Medain Saleh (Saudi Arabia) and then the little known ...
Hardback. Price US$90.00
Lebenswelten: Bilder und Räume in der römischen Stadt der Kaiserzeit
edited by Richard Neudecker and Paul Zanker
Cities under the reign of the Roman Emperors offer numerous possibilities for researching antique urban life. Architecture, pictures, and rituals inform us about the way of life of Roman citizens. This volume presents essays from a symposium by the DAI in Rome and introduces new methodological approaches. They include archaeological, historigraphical, and philological works. 256p, 124 b/w illus. (Reichert 2005)
Paperback. Price US$76.00
Living & Working in Roman and Later London: Excavations at 60-63 Fenchurch Street
by Vaughan Birbeck and Jörn Schuster
Excavations in advance of redevelopment for a prestigious office building in the east of the City revealed 10 broad phases of activity, ranging from between the pre-Roman and post-medieval periods, with a focus on the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Comparison with the adjacent site of Lloyd's Register demonstrates the considerable differences that can occur in the occupation history of two adjacent sites. The volume includes reports on the finds and ...
Ubi diutius nobis habitandum est: Die Innendekoration der kaiserzeitlichen Gräber Roms
by Francisca Feraudi-Gruenais
248p, 159 b/w illus. (Reichert 2001)
Paperback. Price US$68.00
Roman Building: Materials and Techniques
by Jean-Pierre Adam
First published in French in 1989, this book provides a systematic, illustrated study of Roman building materials and the various types of building technique, in brick, stone, and marble. Adam uses Pompeii as a principal source for his research, but he also turns to the many Roman buildings and monuments around Europe and the Mediterraneaqn to illustrate this all-encompassing study. First looking at Roman surveying techniques, Adam then proceeds ...
Paperback. Price US$150.00
Vitruvius: Ten Books of Architecture
edited by Ingrid D Rowland with commentary by Thomas Noble Howe
The first critical commentary for many years on this, the single most important architectural text to survive from Classical antiquity. Vitruvius' De Architectura libri decem was extremely influential, not just in contemporary society, but from the Renaissance to the present day. The picture of Vitruvius painted in this book, is an inventive and creative thinker. Includes sections on: First principles and the layout of cities; building ...
Paperback. Price US$29.99
The Forum of Trajan in Rome
by James E. Packer
This is a monumental work devoted to the "last, largest and most splendid of the early imperial forums". The forum was constructed in AD 112 but is thought to have partially collapsed in the earthquake of AD 801 and was subsequently pillaged for marble. ...
Paperback. Price US$550.00
Anfiteatro Flavio: Immagine, Testimonianze, Spettacoli
162p, illus. (Quasar 1984)
Paperback. Price US$35.00
Forum of Trajan in Rome: a study of the monuments...
Packer, James E
Paperback. Price US$45.00
The Spread of the Roman Domus-Type in Gaul
by Lorinc Timar
The aim of this study is to process a group of problems related to the building of residential houses in Roman Age Gaul (Tres Galliae: first century BC and the second part of the first century AD). The houses are summarized in the Catalogue that concludes ...
Paperback. Price US$77.50
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