Artifacts from ancient Rome

Author(s)

• Tschen-Emmons, James B.

Bibliographic Information

Artifacts from ancient Rome

James B. Tschen-Emmons

（Daily life through artifacts）

Greenwood, c2014

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society. Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources. The author-a historian also trained as an archaeologist-begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and "see" the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction How to Evaluate Artifacts Chronology of Events COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORD KEEPING Abacus Calendar Graffiti Inkwell Seal Ring Wax Tablet COOKING AND FOOD Amphora Bread Oven Cooking Pot Dining Couch ENTERTAINMENT Dice and Tavern Game Board Lyre Mosaic of a Boxer Theatrical Mask Toys GROOMING, CLOTHING, AND ACCESSORIES Fibula Perfume Bottle Phalera Portrait Bust Razor Sandals Strigil Toga Praetexta HOUSEHOLD ITEMS Cave Canem Mosaic Drainpipes Oil Lamp Public Toilets Sundial RELIGION AND FUNERARY PRACTICES Aedicule Memorial Bulla Catacombs Curse Tablet Lar Sistrum Votive Male Torso TOOLS AND WEAPONS Ballista Coin Mold Fasces Gladius Scales and Steelyard Scalpels and Bronze Scissors TRANSPORTATION Farm Cart Horse Bit Milestone Rostrum Select Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB19112102
• ISBN:
  • 9781610696197
• LCCN: 2014014819
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Santa Barbara
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 321 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DG77
  • DC23 : 937
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rome -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Rome -- History
  • LCSH : Rome -- Civilization
  • FREE : ART / History / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh
  • FREE : ART / Reference. bisacsh
  • FREE : HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB19112011