Designating Place

Designating Place

Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii

Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the major topics in archaeological research. Designating Place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways, namely via geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book honors the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people she worked with, people she inspired and people who presented on sessions she organized. The book presents new data on Ostia obtained by techniques such as Space Syntax, high-resolution, shallow seismic reflection survey, the analysis of operational-sequences, linguistic landscape studies and collective memory studies, by scholars from the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, the UK, and the USA. As a bonus a selection of these papers form a hidden book on Roman bathing and water management.
  • 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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