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description: Sir William Gell (17771836) was a British archaeologist well known for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Gell published this new two-volume edition of his Pompeiana in 1832 in an effort to describe the latest archaeological discoveries in the Roman city destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Concerned 'that time will incalculably diminish the freshness of those objects  stripped of their external coats by the rains of winter or the burning suns of summer' he made it his task to describe what he had seen both through description and through his own numerous illustrations. In volume 1 Gell focuses on sites including the forum baths and the 'temple of Fortune' while volume 2 focuses on two Pompeiian homes. Pompeiana reveals both the history of the excavations the individual finds and the processes of field archaeology itself during a more romantic age.
language: English
title: Pompeiana 2 Volume Paperback Set: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819
publisher: Cambridge University Press