A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City

Gabii Revealed

Bibliographic Data

ID4533744
AuthorsJeffrey Becker (0000-0001-8759-3774), Jeffrey A Becker, Marcello Mogetta (0000-0003-2736-3410), Nicola Terrenato (0000-0002-1053-0094)
Year2009
Volume113
Issue4
Pages629-642
Publication date2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3764/aja.113.4.629
OpenAlexW2318043349
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited2

The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with magnetometry and core sampling in preparation for a major campaign of new excavations. The results show that Gabii was orthogonally planned around a main, hitherto unknown thoroughfare and that significant structures and associated stratifications are relatively well preserved. The new work has the potential to yield much-needed information, not just about this important center but also about first-millennium B.C.E. urbanism in the Italian peninsula

Ancient history · Archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Peninsula · Plan (archaeology) · Settlement (finance) · Urbanism · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Architecture · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology