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The palimpsest of the house : re-assessing Roman, Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic living patterns / edited by Inge Uytterhoeven and Alessandra Ricci.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International ANAMED Annual Symposium (8th : 2013 : Istanbul, Turkey), author.
- Series:
- Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turkey--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Turkey.
- History, Ancient--Congresses.
- History, Ancient.
- Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Rome--Civilization--Congresses.
- Rome.
- Archaeology--History--Congresses.
- Archaeology.
- Architecture--History--Congresses.
- Architecture.
- Antiquities.
- Civilization.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Istanbul : Koç University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "The contributions focus on the developments, continuities, and changes in private housing across the Mediterranean during Roman, Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic times. The volume sheds light on the interaction between houses of various regions and time periods, exploring the architectural features, layout and interior, and builders and users of private houses."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Inge Uytterhoeven and Alessandra Ricci
- Identity or identities? Defining Rome's elite and the elite Roman "productive" villa / Hannah Platts
- The significance of the Ephesian "terrace houses" as residences of the elite in the Greek East / Elisabeth Rathmayr
- Entrance areas of ancient houses and the multiple aspects of their inscriptions and symbols / Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail
- Splendid luxury representation and display in the Roman and Late Antique urban elite houses of Asia Minor / Inge Uytterhoeven
- The nature of the "courtyard house" : sampling Late Antique houses in Asia Minor / Lale Özgenel
- A Late Antique palace in Bostra (Bosra, Syria), the seat of the archbishop of the Provincia Arabia in the sixth century CE / Pauline Piraud-Fournet
- A house as palimpsest : the reshaping of building 600 at Tall Jawa, Jordan / P. M. Michèle Daviau
- Ernest Mamboury, the Late Antique residential complex at Rhegion (Kü̈c̦ükc̦ekmece, Istanbul) and its architecture / Alessandra Ricci
- The Istanbul Archaeological Museums' excavations in the Asian hinterland of the city : an interim report / Rahmi̇ Asal.
- Notes:
- "This edited volumes includes papers presented at the 8th International ANAMED Annual Symposium, held at Istanbul's Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in 2013."--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 6057685849
- 9786057685841
- OCLC:
- 1276933584
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