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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia,
2011.
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| Series: | University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.