Research Catalog

Title

Interpreting Roman London : papers in memory of Hugh Chapman / edited by Joanna Bird, Mark Hassall and Harvey Sheldon.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Company [distributor], c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chapman, Hugh
• Bird, Joanna
• Hassall, M. W. C. (Mark W. C.)
• Sheldon, Harvey

Description

xi, 268 p. : ill., maps, plans; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Oxbow monograph ; 58

Uniform Title

Oxbow monograph 58.

Subjects

• Festschriften
• Chapman, Hugh
• Chapman, Hugh 1945-1992
• London (England) > Antiquities, Roman
• Romans > England > London

Genre/Form

Festschriften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The temple of Diana/ John Clark -- The beginnings of archaeology in the City of London / Peter Marsden -- London as a provincial capital / Mark Hassall -- The status of Londinium / John Wilkes -- Characterizing Roman London / Martin Millett -- How to interpret Roman London? / Richard Reece -- Monumental architecture in Roman London / T.F.C. Blagg -- A palace disproved: reassessing the provincial governor's presence in 1st-century London / Gustav Milne -- The cemeteries of Roman London / Jenny Hall -- A miniature chalk head from the Thames at Battersea and the "cult of the head" in Roman London / Jonathan Cotton / Sculptors from the west in Roman London / Martin Henig -- The London hunter-god and his significance in the history of Londinium / Ralph Merrifield.
• Isis, not Cybele: a bone hairpin from London / Catherine Johns -- Frogs from the Walbrook: a cult pot and its attribution / Joanna Bird -- Petrecus connected / G.B. Dannell -- The hare with three front legs: London to Toronto / Alison H. Easson -- Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery traditions of the London region / Paul A. Tyers -- Procuratorial mortarium stamps / Katharine F. Hartley -- Problems of Roman coin interpretation in Greater London / Michael J. Hammerson -- Early decorated Roman spoons from London / Christine E.E. Jones & David Sherlock -- A new collyrium-stamp from Staines and some thoughts on eye medicine in Roman London and Brittania / Ralph Jackson -- Roman material from London in the Pitt Rivers collection at Salisbury Museum / N. Griffiths.
• Dem dry bones / Clive Orton -- A five-acre wood in Roman Kent / R.S.O. Tomlin -- The London region in the Roman period / D.G. Bird -- In search of Sulloniacis / Harvey Sheldon -- Stony Jack's Roman London / Jean Macdonald -- The display of Roman London / Max Hebditch.

ISBN

1900188023

OCLC

• 36545152
• SCSB-10147051

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library