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Bringing Carthage home : the excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 /

Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the Britis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freed, Joann, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, U.K. : Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, 2011.
Colección:University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Nathan Davis at Carthage -- Davis in his social context -- Davis becomes an archaeologist -- The site of Carthage -- Davis gets to work -- Mosaics discovered at Carthage before Davis' excavations -- The late Roman mosaic of the months and seasons -- Excavations on other sites in the spring of 1857 -- Punic votive stelae -- Excavation at Carthage in the second half of 1857 -- Davis moves outside Roman Carthage -- Davis' late mosaic finds -- Davis in competition with Beulé -- The contribution of the pioneer archaeologists at Carthage. 
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