The inner lives of ancient houses an archaeology of Dura Europos 1st Edition by Jennifer A Baird ISBN 978-0199687657 019968765X
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ISBN 10: 019968765X
ISBN 13: 978-0199687657
Author: Jennifer A Baird
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. A Hellenistic foundation later held by the Parthians and then the Romans, Dura had a Roman military garrison installed within its city walls before it was taken by the Sasanians in the mid-third century. The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses is the first study to consider the houses of the site as a whole.
The houses were excavated by a team from Yale and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters in the 1920s and 30s, and though a wealth of archaeological and textual material was recovered, most of that relating to housing was never published. Through a combination of archival information held at the Yale University Art Gallery and new fieldwork with the Mission Franco-Syrienne d’Europos-Doura, this study re-evaluates the houses of the site, integrating architecture, artefacts, and textual evidence, and examining ancient daily life and cultural interaction, as well as considering houses which were modified for use by the Roman military.
Table of contents:
I Excavating Dura-Europos: From Field to Archive
Excavating Dura-Europos
The excavation of the houses
The history of Dura-Europos
The abandonment sequence of Dura-Europos
Current knowledge of the houses
Towards a biography of Dura’s houses
2 The Houses of Dura-Europos
Urbanism and domestic architecture at Dura
Building Dura’s houses
From house to society at Dura-Europos
3 The Roman Military Presence in the Houses of Dura-Europos
Installation of the Roman garrison
The Roman military at Dura and the transformation of houses
Billeting and Dura?
The Roman Palace
The ‘House of the Prefect’, Block Ji
4 Everyday Life in Roman Dura-Europos: Household Activities
The Assemblages
Durene time
Eating and drinking practices
Sleeping
Reading and writing
Religious practices
Household manufacture
Commerce: shops, bars, and the brothel of Dura
Sensing Dura
5 Assembling Identities at Dura-Europos
Aspects of identity
Being Durene, being Roman
6 The Houses of Dura-Europos: A Biographical Approach
The structures of the houses and households
Changing houses: blocks C7 and D5
Keeping it in the family: block Di and the elite of Dura
Placing Dura’s houses
Epilogue
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