Archeologia e storia di Camarina / Giovanni Uggeri.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Uggeri, Giovanni, author.

Contributor:

• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Excavations (Archaeology).
• Camarina (Extinct city).
• Sicily (Italy)--Antiquities, Roman.
• Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Camarina (Extinct city).
• Classical antiquities.
• Italy--Camarina (Extinct city).
• Italy--Sicily.

Physical Description:

152 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Galatina (Le) : Congedo editore, [2016]

Summary:

This book gives an account of Camarina, the Greek city on the southern coast of Sicily that was founded by Syracuse in 598 BC and destroyed by Rome in 258 AD. It brings together the surviving literary, epigraphic, numismatic, topographical, and archaeological evidence on Camarina, presenting a synthesis of the material from a historical perspective.

Contents:

• Alla scoperta di Camarina
• Il paesaggio camarinese
• La vicenda storica
• Ambiente e primi abitanti
• Le fortificazioni
• Le fasi urbanistiche
• L'area dell'agorà
• Il santuario di Athena e altri culti
• L'edilizia privata
• Granai e case di età romana
• Le attività artigianali
• Il sistema portuale di Camarina
• Le tre necropoli
• Le fattorie suburbane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9788867661404
• 886766140X

OCLC:

952393285

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• TOC
• The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page