A collection of diverse archaeological approaches to Roman cities.
Designating Place showcases the diverse ways archaeologists approach ancient urban spaces—including geophysical, spatial, iconographic, and epigraphic analyses. Drawing on techniques as wide-ranging as Space Syntax, shallow seismic reflection surveys, linguistic landscape studies, and collective memory studies, this international team of scholars presents the latest insights from cutting-edge research into urban societies near Rome and Pompeii.
- Cover
- Title page
- Colophon
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1. Geophysical Analysis
- 2 Behind the Block
- 3 Exploring with GPR the Frigidarium of the Byzantine Baths in Ostia Antica
- 4 Ultra-shallow Shear-wave Reflections Locating Near-surface Buried Structures
- Part 2. Spatial Analysis
- 5 Embellishing the Streets of Ostia
- 6 Space Syntax a Ostia Antica
- 7 From the Forum to the Gate
- 8 Revisiting Old Data with New Techniques
- 9 The Social Construction of Roman Industrial Space
- Part 3. Iconographic Analysis
- 10 Realia, Rituals and Symbols of the Torlonia Relief
- 11 Bodies and Buildings
- Part 4. Epigraphic Analysis
- 12 Verba Volant, Scripta Manent
- 13 Cuius Memoria Vivit
- Part 5. Hanna Stöger
- 14 A Hommage to Hanna Stöger
- 15 Publications by Hanna Stöger
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