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Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819. Volumes 1 & 2

by: Gell, W.

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Category: Ancient Topography / Geography / History
Code: 15817
ISBN-13: 9781108012560 / 978-1-108-01256-0
ISBN-10: 1108012566 / 1-108-01256-6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Book Condition: New
Comments: 2 Vols. Set. / Cambridge Library Collection - Classics / Reprint of the Edition of 1832 / Vol. 1: 198p. Vol. 2: 207p. / 9781108012546 / 9781108012553

Sir William Gell (1777–1836) was a British archaeologist well known for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Gell published this new, two-volume edition of his Pompeiana in 1832, in an effort to describe the latest archaeological discoveries in the Roman city destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Concerned 'that time will incalculably diminish the freshness of those objects … stripped of their external coats by the rains of winter or the burning suns of summer', he made it his task to describe what he had seen both through description and through his own numerous illustrations. In this first volume, Gell focuses on sites including the forum, baths, and the temple of Fortune. Pompeiana reveals both the history of the excavations, the individual finds, and the processes of field archaeology itself during a more romantic age.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. General plan
2. Chalcidicum
3. Forum
4. Pantheon, or College of the Augustales
5. Temple of Fortune
6. Thermae
7. Women's baths
8. House of the Tragic Poet
9. Fullonica
10. House of the Fountain.


Sir William Gell (1777–1836) was a British archaeologist well known for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Gell published this new, two-volume edition of his Pompeiana in 1832, in an effort to describe the latest archaeological discoveries in the Roman city destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Concerned 'that time will incalculably diminish the freshness of those objects … stripped of their external coats by the rains of winter or the burning suns of summer', he made it his task to describe what he had seen both through description and through his own numerous illustrations. In this second volume, Gell focuses on two Pompeiian homes and provides a commentary on the illustrative plates interspersed throughout the book. Pompeiana reveals both the history of the excavations, the individual finds, and the processes of field archaeology itself during a more romantic age.

Table of Contents
11. House of the Second Fountain
12. House of the Dioscuri
13. House of the Dioscuri
Description of the plates
Description of the vignettes
Appendices.

 
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Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819. Volumes 1 & 2

by: Gell, W.

  • ISBN-13: 9781108012560 / 978-1-108-01256-0
  • ISBN-03: 1108012566 / 1-108-01256-6
  • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock