Journal article
Regionaries-type insulae 1 : Architectural/residential units at Ostia
American journal of archaeology, Vol.105(3), pp.389-401
2001
DOI: 10.2307/507362
Abstract
The question of the disposition and arrangement of Roman residential units has long been a feature of the archaeological study of the Roman ruins of the Vesuvian cities, and Ostia, the port of Rome. In this paper, the results of recent research at Ostia are reported regarding the division of internal space within the fabric of street blocks, in the hopes of throwing light on the vexed question of the proper referent for the term insula as it occurs in the fourth-century A.D. Regionaries catalogues of Rome. In the past, arguments have gone back and forth as to whether insula in the Regionaries referred to an apartment building or an individual apartment. The conclusions of this analysis strongly suggest that the term referred to a separate apartment-like unit, here called an architectural/residential unit (ARU).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Regionaries-type insulae 1 : Architectural/residential units at Ostia
- Creators
- Glenn R Storey - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of archaeology, Vol.105(3), pp.389-401
- Publisher
- Archaeological Institute of America
- DOI
- 10.2307/507362
- ISSN
- 0002-9114
- eISSN
- 1939-828X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Classics; Anthropology; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984270168002771
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