Title & Author:

Cosa IV : the houses / by Vincent J. Bruno and Russell T. Scott.

Publication:

University ParK, Pa. : Published for the American Academy in Rome by the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Description:

xxii, 211 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 38

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction (starting p. 1) / Russell T. Scott, Vincent J. Bruno -- Pt. I The Houses of the Second Century B.C -- The West Block, Period 1.1 (starting p. 13) / Russell T. Scott -- The East Block, Period 1.1 (starting p. 31) / Russell T. Scott -- The West Block, Period 1.2 (starting p. 65) / Russell T. Scott -- The East Block, Period 1.2 (starting p. 75) / Russell T. Scott -- Pt. II The Houses of the First Century B.C -- The West Block, Period 1.3: The House of the Treasure (of Quintus Fulvius) (starting p. 79) / Russell T. Scott -- The East Block, Period 1.3: The House of the Skeleton (starting p. 99) / Vincent J. Bruno -- The Garden of the House of the Skeleton (starting p. 148) / Frank E. Brown -- The East Block, Period 1.3: A Neighbor to the House of the Skeleton (starting p. 153) / Russell T. Scott -- Pt. III A House of the Augustan Period -- The East Block, Period 2: The House of the Birds (starting p. 161) / Russell T. Scott -- Appendix 1. I Resti Faunistici Provenienti dalle Case Romane di Cosa (Ansedonia) (starting p. 193) / Dott. Salvatore Scali -- Appendix 2. Human Skeletal Material from the House of the Skeleton (starting p. 201) / Kathy Gruspier, Tjeerd Pot -- Appendix 3. Pre-Arretine Pottery from the Houses (starting p. 202) / Russell T. Scott

Summary:

"Cosa was a Latin colony founded by Rome in 273 B.C. in territory confiscated from the Etruscan city of Vulci. The fortification walls of the ancient town still dominate the coast some ninety miles north of Rome. The town itself became an agricultural and commercial center, whose trade can be traced in part through a distinctive type of amphora to destinations throughout the Mediterranean world."--BOOK JACKET. "Cosa's archaeological importance lies in the fact that it provides essential evidence for Roman culture and political organization as they are expressed in structures, and town planning of the republican period, evidence not available in Rome, where republican structures vanished beneath the massive building programs of the imperial age. Cosa IV reports on a group of recently excavated houses between the forum and the Florentine or northwest gate. The volume traces the development of the Roman house, which Frank Brown counts as a major contribution to Roman architecture, from a small urban dwelling of the early colony to the more elaborate houses of the late second and early first centuries B.C., including a Cosan example of the atrium house."--BOOK JACKET. "The appearance of Cosa IV, and its companion volume on the forum, Cosa III, adds to the importance of the early colony to the field of ancient studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
*McMaster only

ISBN:

0271007826 (alk. paper)
9780271007823 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Italy Cosa (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy.
Architecture, Domestic.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Archeologische vindplaatsen.
Woningen.
Architecture, Domestic Italy Cosa.
Architecture, Roman Italy Cosa.
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Cosa.
Cosa (Extinct city)
Cosa (Ville ancienne)
Italy Cosa (Extinct city)
Italy.
Cosa (Extinct city) Buildings.
Cosa (Extinct city) Antiquities.

Host item:

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome no:38

Added entries:

Bruno, Vincent J.
Scott, Russell T.
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 38.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100713
Call No.: ID:94-B127
Status: Available