Bringing Carthage home
Subtitle: the excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859
By: Joann Freed ; with a foreword by R. J. A. Wilson
Series: University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world -- v. 2; University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world -- v. 2.
Publisher: Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781842179925
Subjects: Romans; Punic antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Roman Antiquities; Mosaic Pavements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nathan Davis at Carthage; title: Davis in his social context; title: Davis becomes an archaeologist; title: The site of Carthage; title: Davis gets to work; title: Mosaics discovered at Carthage before Davis' excavations; title: The late Roman mosaic of the months and seasons; title: Excavations on other sites in the spring of 1857; title: Punic votive stelae; title: Excavation at Carthage in the second half of 1857; title: Davis moves outside Roman Carthage; title: Davis' late mosaic finds; title: Davis in competition with Beulé; title: The contribution of the pioneer archaeologists at Carthage.