Title: Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity /
Authors: Frey, Jon M.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Fortification Greece History; Building materials Recycling Greece History; Antiquities; Building materials Recycling; Fortification; Aigina (Greece : Municipality) Antiquities.; Isthmia (Greece) Antiquities.; Aigina (Greece : Municipality) Antiquities.; Isthmía (Greece) Antiquities.; Sparta (Extinct city); Greece History, Military; Greece; Greece Aigina (Municipality); Greece Isthmía; Greece Sparta (Extinct city); Sparta (Extinct city)
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- The Structure of the Present Study -- 2.Themes -- What are Spolia? -- Defining Spolia -- An Agency Approach -- Fortifications -- The Larger Context -- 3.Reuse as Repair: The "Inscription Wall" at Aegina -- The City of Aegina and Site of Kolonna -- Historical and Archaeological Context -- Description of the Inscription Wall -- Reuse as Repair -- Toichobate and Orthostate -- Headers and Stretchers -- Vertical Joints -- Meaningful or Decorative Reuse? -- Uniformity? -- Conclusions -- 4.Reuse as Reinterpretation: Section R at Sparta -- Sparta in the Roman Period -- Previous Study of the Fortification at Sparta -- Description of the Late Roman Fortification -- Description of "Section R" -- Sources of Material -- Late Roman Construction Techniques -- A Reinterpretation? Shape, Color and the Doric Style -- Units of Construction? -- Conclusions -- 5.Reuse as Rejection: The Fortress at Isthmia -- The Sanctuary and Fortress at Isthmia -- Recent Study of the Fortress -- Description of the Course of the Fortress Walls -- Tower 7 and Adjacent Wall: Traditional Techniques -- Tower 14 and Adjacent Wall: A Different Approach -- A Single Unified Project? -- Working in Teams -- Conclusions -- 6.Spoliation as Process, Military Strategy, and Democratization -- Similarities -- Differences -- Fortifications as Evidence of Spoliation -- Process and Agency, Not Typology -- Spolia and Military Strategy -- Democratization in Late Antiquity.