House of the Surgeon, Pompeii : excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) / Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson ; with contributions by H.E.M. Cool [and 6 others] ; foreword by Rick Jones.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-631) and index.
Contents:
Foreword : the old certainties are crumbling / Rick Jones -- Pompeii's Unsula VI 1 and the Casa del Chirurgo / Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson -- The Anglo-American project in Pompeii / Damian Robinson, Michael A. Anderson, H.E.M. Cool, Robyn Veal, and Charlene Murphy -- Digging the Casa del Chirurgo / Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson -- The stratigraphic and structural sequence of the Casa del Chirurgo / Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson -- Room by room discussion of stratigraphy and architecture / Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson -- Glass vessels and small finds / H.E.M. Cool -- Report on the coinage recovered from the AAPP excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo / Richard Hobbs -- Plaster fragments from the cisterns of the Casa del Chirurgo : a window onto the house's lost decoration / Helen White -- Pavements of mortar, mosaic and marble inlay / Will Wootton -- The faunal remains / Jane Richardson -- Archaeobotanical remains / Charlene Murphy -- Fuel and timber in the Casa del Chirurgo / Robyn Veal -- The ancient campanian environment and results from the Casa del Chirurgo / Robyn Veal and Charlene Murphy -- Conclusions / Michael A. Anderson -- Appendix I. Stratigraphic unit listing and chapter 5 concordance -- Appendix II. Harris matrices for areas excavated.
Summary:
"The first major publication of one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have been undertaken at Pompeii. This volume concerns the House of the Surgeon and sheds light on the history of Pompeii and situates the results within Roman archaeology"-- Provided by publisher.
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