Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome. (= Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, Vol. 15).

Keay, Simon / Millett, Martin / Paroli, Lidia / Strutt, Kristian.

ISBN 10: 0904152472 / ISBN 13: 9780904152470

Edité par British School at Rome, London, 2005

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• Titre: Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome. (= Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, Vol. 15).
• Éditeur: British School at Rome, London
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0904152472
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780904152470
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Poids: 1600 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that Portus lay at the heart of Rome's maritime façade. As well as being a key Mediterranean centre for passengers and for the loading, unloading, transshipment and storage of products from across the Empire, it was also designed to make an ideological statement about the supremacy of Rome in the world. Portus is, thus, of key importance to understanding Rome and her relationship to the Empire. The project that forms the subject of this book was designed to use non-destructive techniques of topographic and geophysical survey in combination with systematic surface collection to provide a new understanding of the plan of Portus. The work was undertaken between 1997 and 2002 as a collaboration between the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia, the British School at Rome, and the Universities of Southampton, Durham and Cambridge. This volume presents the full results of the survey and uses them as the basis for a re-evaluation of the whole port complex. The geophysical survey results are interpreted in the context of earlier work at the site in order to offer new perspectives on the character and development of the site.

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Professor Simon Keay is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton and a Fellow of the British Academy. He specialises in the archaeology of the Roman Empire, with particular interests in Italy and Iberia, Roman Mediterranean ports and commerce and culture change. He has directed a range of excavations and surveys in Italy, Spain and Turkey. Professor Martin Millett is the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research focuses on the social and economic archaeology of the Roman world and the application of survey methods in archaeology, and has involved fieldwork in the UK, Spain, Portugal and Italy.