BUILDING WITH RE-USED MATERIAL

BUILDING WITH RE-USED MATERIAL

[...]F. is persuasive in his argument that the principles of spolia use uncovered through the study of specific buildings may be representative of conditions in a particular region or site rather than of empire-wide spolia habits.[...]F.'s examples add to the growing evidence for the wholesale...

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Published in:The Classical Review 2018, Vol.68 (1), p.245-247
Main Author: Barker, Simon J.
Format: Review
Language:eng
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Ancient civilizations
Archaeology
Architecture
Building construction
Case studies
Classical studies
Persuasion
Recycling
Reviews
Roman civilization
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Summary:[...]F. is persuasive in his argument that the principles of spolia use uncovered through the study of specific buildings may be representative of conditions in a particular region or site rather than of empire-wide spolia habits.[...]F.'s examples add to the growing evidence for the wholesale incorporation of public buildings, which could only have occurred by authorisation of civic, regional or higher authorities.[...]F.'s discussion of fortification walls attests to the fact that these structures were often built carefully within the urban landscape and often with carefully selected spolia, rather than as haphazard constructions to fend off marauding barbarians - a point that has been convincingly argued in the case of the city walls of Gaul, for example (see C. Witschel, 'Die spätantiken Städte Galliens: Transformationen von Stadtbildern als Ausdruck einer gewandelten Identität?', in S. Diefenbach and G.M. Müller [edd.], Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter.
ISSN:0009-840X
1464-3561