Architectural Terracottas from the Regia
Subtitle: Volume XXX (The Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: February 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780472105717
Subjects: Architecture; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; Roman Architecture; Art & Art Instruction; Terra-cotta sculpture, Roman; Regia (Rome, Italy); Ancient Rome; Roman Forum (Rome, Italy); Ancient - General; Archaeology; Sculpture; Social Science / Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Italy; Rome
Description: The Regia was the house of the Pontifex Maximus, Rome's High Priest, who lived in the Forum. The men who held this office played an important role in the life of the Roman state for centuries: the earliest Regia dates to the seventh century B.C.E., and it was rebuilt frequently.

Susan B. Downey has extensively studied the sixth-century phase of the building, and in this valuable work she lays out the scheme for the architectural terracottas. These fragments allow the reconstruction of almost the entire decorative system for the building. Art historians and archaeologists will welcome this book. It also contains much of interest for Roman social historians and for students and scholars of early Italy and its communities.