Cosa III: The Buildings of the Forum
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Cosa was a Latin colony founded by Rome in 273 BC in a territory confiscated from the Etruscan city of Vulci. The town became an agricultural and commercial centre, whose trade can be traced in part through a distinctive type of amphora to destinations throughout the Mediterrnean world. But Cosa's archaeological importance lies in the information its structure and town-planning provide about the Republican period. Cosa IV: the Houses by Vincent J. Bruno and Russell T. Scott Report on a group of recently excavated houses between the forum and the northwest gate which traces the development of the Roman house from a small urban dwelling of the early colony to the more elaborate houses of the late second and early first centuries BC, including an example of the atrium house. 211p, 118 b/w illus (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XXXVIII, Penn State Press 1993) Cosa III: the Buildings of the Forum by Frank E. Brown, Emeline Hill Richardson and L. Richardson Report on the excavations of the forum at Cosa, the purest example of a Republican forum which clearly shows the sequence of planning and building from its beginnings as the political heart of the town to its commercial developement with shops and markets.
Author: F. E. Brown
Format: Hardback, 298 pages, 216mm x 279mm
Published: 1993, The University of Michigan Press, United States
Genre: Archaeology
Cosa was a Latin colony founded by Rome in 273 BC in a territory confiscated from the Etruscan city of Vulci. The town became an agricultural and commercial centre, whose trade can be traced in part through a distinctive type of amphora to destinations throughout the Mediterrnean world. But Cosa's archaeological importance lies in the information its structure and town-planning provide about the Republican period. Cosa IV: the Houses by Vincent J. Bruno and Russell T. Scott Report on a group of recently excavated houses between the forum and the northwest gate which traces the development of the Roman house from a small urban dwelling of the early colony to the more elaborate houses of the late second and early first centuries BC, including an example of the atrium house. 211p, 118 b/w illus (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XXXVIII, Penn State Press 1993) Cosa III: the Buildings of the Forum by Frank E. Brown, Emeline Hill Richardson and L. Richardson Report on the excavations of the forum at Cosa, the purest example of a Republican forum which clearly shows the sequence of planning and building from its beginnings as the political heart of the town to its commercial developement with shops and markets.