Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building

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Charlotte R. Potts (University of Oxford)

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy

Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building

Charlotte R. Potts (University of Oxford)

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Cambridge University Press
21 December 2023

Architectural structure & design; Classical history & classical civilisation

Series: British School at Rome Studies

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy takes studies of individual elements and sites as a starting point to reconstruct a much larger picture of architecture in western central Italy as an industry, and to position the result in space (in the Mediterranean world and beyond) and time (from the second millennium BC to Late Antiquity). This volume demonstrates that buildings in pre-Roman Italy have close connections with Bronze Age and Roman architecture, with practices in local and distant societies, and with the natural world and the cosmos. It also argues that buildings serve as windows into the minds and lives of those who made and used them, revealing the concerns and character of communities in early Etruria, Rome, and Latium. Architecture consequently emerges as a valuable historical source, and moreover a part of life that shaped society as much as reflected it.

Edited by: Charlotte R. Potts (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108931380
ISBN 10: 1108931383
Series: British School at Rome Studies
Pages: 223
Publication Date: 21 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: building connections Charlotte R. Potts; 2. The silent roofing revolution: the Etruscan Tie-beam Truss Jean MacIntosh Turfa; 3. Architectural terracottas of central Italy within their wider Mediterranean context Nancy A. Winter; 4. The connective evidence for early Roman urbanism: terracottas and architectural accretion John Hopkins; 5. Connecting foundations and roofs: the Satricum sacellum and the S. Omobono sanctuary Patricia S. Lulof and Loes Opgenhaffen; 6. Architectural choices in Etruscan sacred areas: Tarquinia in its Mediterranean setting Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni; 7. Connections in death: Etruscan tomb architecture, c.800-400 BC Stephan Steingräber.

Charlotte R. Potts is Sybille Haynes Associate Professor in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford and Woolley Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology at Somerville College. She is also the author of Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c.900-500 BC (2015), and has published multiple articles and chapters on Etruscan and Roman archaeology.