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Pompeian Households
Penelope Allison
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Description for Pompeian Households
Paperback. Looks at contextualized Pompeian household artefacts and their role in deepening our understanding of household behaviour at Pompeii. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 255 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 281 x 14. Weight in Grams: 906.
Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behaviour.
This book is concerned with contextualised Pompeian household artefacts and their role in deepening understanding of household behaviour at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within each architectural room type and across the house. It also uses this material to investigate the state of occupancy of these houses at ... Read more
Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behaviour.
This book is concerned with contextualised Pompeian household artefacts and their role in deepening understanding of household behaviour at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within each architectural room type and across the house. It also uses this material to investigate the state of occupancy of these houses at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Series
Monographs
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9780917956966
SKU
V9780917956966
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About Penelope Allison
Penelope M. Allison is an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Australian National University. She has held research fellowships at the University of Sydney and in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University. She has taught ancient history and archaeology at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Sheffield. Her research interests ... Read more
Reviews for Pompeian Households
"Penelope Allison's study of artefact assemblages in thirty of the larger houses from Pompeii is a welcome addition to published work available to students of this ancient city. ... Her book has updated and made available a reconstructed data-set that is unique and needs to be better known by those studying Roman Houses and Domestic Space." Ray Laurence, Journal of ... Read more