Architecture; Architectural elements; Towers; Walls; City walls; Forts & fortifications
"As the town's wealth grew and powerful neighbors established themselves, the need for protection resulted in the first known permanent stone fortifications. By approximately 7500 BCE, the town, estimated to have had a population of more than...
"The heavy walls of Tiryns and other Mycenaean palaces contrast sharply with the open Cretan palaces and clearly reveal their defensive character. Those of Tiryns average about 20 feet in thickness, and in one section they house a long gallery...
“A reconstruction of the Dipylon (left) and Sacred gates as they might have appeared in the fifth century BC, before the forward defences [defenses] (proteichisma) and moat were added.” (caption, p.18)
1) Insula of the Painted Vaults 2) Horrea Epagathiana 3) Capitolium 4) forum 5) Temple of Roma and Augustus 6) Insula of Diana 7) Piazza delle Corporazioni (Forum of the Corporations) 8) theater 9) Baths of Neptune 10) Sullan walls.
Cities & towns; Plans; Drawings; Architectural drawings; City planning; Rivers; Bodies of water; Hills; Streets; Roads; Roman roads; Forums; Architecture; Walls; City walls; Buildings; Religious facilities; Temples; Altars; Tombs &...
Structures included: Aurelianic Walls, Republican Walls, Mausoleum of Augustus, Ara Pacis, Mausoleum of Hadrian, Stadium of Domitian, Pantheon, Theater of Pompey, Theater of Marcellus, Porticus Aemilia, Pyramid of Cestius, Baths of Caracalla,...
Landscapes (Representations); Plains; Cities & towns; Walls; City walls; Hills; Temples; Religious facilities; Gymnasiums; Sports & recreation facilities; Streets; Roads; Islands; Bodies of water; Drawings; Landscape drawings; Illustrations
“An aerial view looking west across the Athenian plain from above Mount Lycabettus, with the island of Salamis in the background. The Sacred Way to Eleusis, which entered the city through the Sacred Gate, gave access from Athens to all parts of...
“Athens in the mid-fourth century BC. N4- Dromos, leading through the Kerameikos (the graveyard) to the Academy, L6- Dipylon Gate, N12- Piraeus Gate, H11- Agora, G16-Areopagus, C15-Acropolis, I19- Pnyx, G- Olympeion, B19- Kynosarges, B10-...
This thesis traces the evolution of trends in stucco decoration during the late antique and early Byzantine periods. The focus of the thesis is to identify and explain the transition between the figural stuccowork trends of the fifth century and...
Maps; Cities & towns; City walls; Walls; Hills; Forums; Buildings; Temples; Religious facilities; Huts; Dwellings; Rivers; Bodies of water
1) Walls of Servius Tullius 2) Quirinal 3) Viminal 4) Cispius 5) Esquiline 6) Oppian 7) Caelian 8) Aventine 9) Palatine 10) Capitol 11) Temple of Jupiter on the Capitol 12) Volcanal 13) Temples of Fortuna and the Mater Matuta 14) Forum Boarium 15)...
