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Ann Reynolds Scott - Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) - 9780472115853 - V9780472115853
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Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)

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Description for Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) Hardcover. A study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in southwest Tuscany, this work documents the rise of Republican Rome to dominance in central Italy in the third and second centuries BC. It catalogues and analyzes five deposits of black-glaze pottery from Cosa. Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Num Pages: 304 pages, 351 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; AFPC; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1275.

This study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in southwest Tuscany documents the rise of republican Rome to dominance in central Italy in the third and second centuries B.C. The town and territory of Cosa constitute one of the most extensively explored sites of the Roman republican period on the Italian peninsula. Excavation and survey work by the American Academy in Rome and others at Cosa over the past half century have greatly enriched our knowledge of the development of public and domestic urban and rural architecture, the organization and exploitation of ... Read more

"Ann Scott presents our best picture of Late Republican black-glaze in central Italy from the third through the mid-first century B.C. In Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2, she reassesses and updates the material published fifty years ago by Doris Taylor as well as presenting more recent deposits of black glazed pottery from Cosa."
---Shelley Stone, Professor of Art History, California State University, Bakersfield

"This admirable study will quickly establish itself as the classic treatment of a topic of central importance for the archaeology of central Italy in the Roman republican period."
---Bernard Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Professor of Art History and Classics, University of Virginia

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Condition
New
Weight
1255g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115853
SKU
V9780472115853
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About Ann Reynolds Scott
Ann Reynolds Scott is Lecturer in Classics at Ursinus College.

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