Bright illumination of a dark period in the ancient world.
Susan Downey has studied and catalogued the terracotta fragments surviving from the Regia, a building of great civic and religious importance that was located in the Roman Forum. Many of the fragments date from roughly the sixth to third centuries B.C., a period frustratingly ill-documented in the literary sources yet of considerable interest and importance in Roman history.
A volume in the series Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome.
Susan B. Downey is Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Design, and Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. She is a winner of the Rome Prize and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy.
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6 x 9, ca 200 pagesISBN 0-472-10571-X
cloth 37.50E (tentative)
November