Thomas Ashby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3623731 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas Ashby |
| NOMBRES | Thomas |
| APELLIDO | Ashby |
| FIRMA | ASHBY T |
| AFILIACIONES | British School at Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6632-3668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1901 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
This useful topographical dictionary was compiled by Samuel Ball Platner (1863–1921) of Western Reserve University in collaboration with Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), the third director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome. Sadly, Platner died before the work was completed, and Ashby eventually published it in 1929. The bulk of the work is an alphabetical list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome mentioned by an…
The Battle of Lake Trasimene
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Alba Longa
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Roman Archaeology
Archaeological Discoveries in Italy and the Mediterranean During 1930
Work continues in Rome with the same energy as before, and a fresh impulse may be said to have been given to it by the publication of the new ‘Piano Regolatore’ for Rome, which is providing for the growth of the city to double its present size so that it will have a population of two millions. There is no doubt at all that numerous demolitions are necessary, if the scheme is really to be carried into effect. That the necessity is regrettable, few…
Romische Veduten
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The Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome
A remark which I made in regard to Tenney Frank's article on the first and second temples of Castor at Rome, to the effect that its conclusions are based on inaccurate drawings, seems to call for some justification on my part. I may say that I had fully intended to discuss the matter in print long before this, and that it was only the impossibility of offering a more satisfactory solution that prevented me from doing so. But, if the truth is ever…
Testimonial to Dr. Hülsen
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Rodolfo Lanciani
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Three Italian Archaeological Congresses
Italy has been and still is the scene of unprecedented archaeological activity ; and it was not unnatural that this fact should lead to the holding of a succession of congresses during the Spring. Rome, as was only fitting, opened the ball on the 2628th anniversary of her birthday, the 21st of April, with the first national congress of Roman Studies.Very wisely the organizing committee decided, as also did the Etruscan committee two years before,…
The Museuem of the Roman Empire in Rome
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Recent Archaeological work in Italy
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Supplementary excavations at Hal-Tarxien, Malta, in 1921
Professor T. Zammit was so kind as to invite me, during a short visit to Malta in March and April 1921, to conduct supplementary excavations under the torba floors of the sanctuary at Hal-Tarxien, which he had discovered and excavated. The results are not without interest both for the history of the building and from the nature of the objects found. They bear out Professor Zammit's conclusions as to the relative date of the various portions of th…
The Castra Peregrinorum
The account of the Castra Peregrinorum which follows, has been compiled by Mr. Baillie Reynolds mainly from notes taken by me in 1904–9. These notes have proved inadequate in some details, largely owing to the circumstances of the discovery of the remains, which were found at considerable intervals of time and of space, so that a comprehensive view of them could never be obtained
The Story of the Map of Italy
The Via Flaminia
The frequent use of the first person singular in the text of this article makes it necessary that we should explain how the work has been divided between us. Mr. Fell, who was resident for two years at the British School at Rome, first as Craven Student of the University of Cambridge, and then as Gilchrist Student of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, is responsible for Section A (The Via Flaminia in History), and Dr. Ashby for Sect…
Antiquae Statuae Urbis Romae
The history of the monuments and works of art of the classical period, which were in existence in Rome during the Renaissance, is of importance to us for many reasons. We may learn what were the materials which were at the disposal of the great masters in architecture, painting, and sculpture, and see in their drawings and sketches, as well as in the works which they actually executed, what use they made of the models which they had before their …
The Palazzo Odescalchi
The history of the palace of the Colonna family which stood on the site which was afterwards occupied by the Palazzo Odescalchi is by no means completely known : but the researches which Sig. Francesco Tomassetti has been good enough to make in the Boncompagni Ludovisi archives, with the kind permission of the Prince of Piombino, have thrown a considerable amount of light on it : and I therefore give the results of his investigations; which have …
An ancient Hill Fortress in Lucania
The ancient Lucania, the area of which corresponds, more or less, to that of the Neapolitan district of Basilicata, the modern province of Potenza, is little known even to the more leisured traveller in Italy; and we must turn to the pages of Keppel Craven and Lenormant for any but the most summary account of it. In the period of the Roman supremacy in Italy no events of singular interest are connected with Lucania, save only in the operations of…
The Bodleian MS. of Pirro Ligorio
Antiquarian research in the Renaissance period was unfortunately not always free from the reproach of deliberate falsification. It seems strange, at first sight, that the amount of genuine material discovered did not suffice to occupy the minds of archaeologists, and that they should have found it necessary to add to it by purely gratuitous inventions. But, given a certain knowledge of the subject, it was easy for a fertile brain and a facile pen…
The Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome
The Palazzo Odescalchi, a portion of which has served as the residence of the British School for a period of some fourteen years, is among the more remarkable of the palaces of Rome, both for its architectural qualities and its historical associations. Situated as it is in the centre of the city, close to the Piazza Venezia, on the west side of the spacious Piazza dei SS. Apostoli, and opposite the famous basilica which gives its name to the squa…
Drawings of Ancient Paintings in English Collections. II.—IV
In the present volume of the Papers of the British School at Rome I continue my description of certain groups of copies of ancient paintings preserved in English Collections (see Papers , vol. vii. pp. 1–62). The two volumes of drawings at Holkham Hall, the property of the Earl of Leicester, were described generally in vol. vii. pp. 1–5. The coloured drawings and the pencil sketches with colour-notes are alike the work of Francesco Bartoli ( ca. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
This useful topographical dictionary was compiled by Samuel Ball Platner (1863–1921) of Western Reserve University in collaboration with Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), the third director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome. Sadly, Platner died before the work was completed, and Ashby eventually published it in 1929. The bulk of the work is an alphabetical list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome mentioned by an…
The Via Flaminia
The frequent use of the first person singular in the text of this article makes it necessary that we should explain how the work has been divided between us. Mr. Fell, who was resident for two years at the British School at Rome, first as Craven Student of the University of Cambridge, and then as Gilchrist Student of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, is responsible for Section A (The Via Flaminia in History), and Dr. Ashby for Sect…
The Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.–I
It is a tendency of all great cities to possess two distinct and often independent sets of communications, the one for local, the other for long-distance traffic; and, unless a city has suddenly sprung into being, it will be found that, in order of development, the former precedes and is the germ of the latter. In the case of Rome, we are able to trace with remarkable clearness the successive stages of the development of the road system. The road…
The Via Traiana
Long before the Romans had established the foundations of their power in Southern Italy, there must necessarily have existed numerous natural routes of communication between the principal centres of population, which were later utilised by the conquerors as they developed and civilised what they had won with their swords. As the Romans advanced from point to point, planting in the best strategical positions military colonies, which not only secur…
The Bodleian MS. of Pirro Ligorio
Antiquarian research in the Renaissance period was unfortunately not always free from the reproach of deliberate falsification. It seems strange, at first sight, that the amount of genuine material discovered did not suffice to occupy the minds of archaeologists, and that they should have found it necessary to add to it by purely gratuitous inventions. But, given a certain knowledge of the subject, it was easy for a fertile brain and a facile pen…
Drawings of Ancient Paintings in English Collections. II.—IV
In the present volume of the Papers of the British School at Rome I continue my description of certain groups of copies of ancient paintings preserved in English Collections (see Papers , vol. vii. pp. 1–62). The two volumes of drawings at Holkham Hall, the property of the Earl of Leicester, were described generally in vol. vii. pp. 1–5. The coloured drawings and the pencil sketches with colour-notes are alike the work of Francesco Bartoli ( ca. …
Excavations in 1908–11 in various Megalithic Buildings in Malta and Gozo
The present report deals with excavations which have been spread over a considerable period of time, and is the work of various hands. For the greater part of the introduction, and for sections I., III., V., VII., IX. XIII., I am myself responsible; the note on the affinities of the Maltese pottery, and sections II., IV., VI., X., XII., are the work of Mr. T. E. Peet; section VIII. of Professor N. Tagliaferro, I.S.O.; and section XI. of Mr. R. N.…
The Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—II
The present is the second instalment of a description of the Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna , which I hope to complete in the course of time. The scale upon which it is written demands, perhaps, some explanation—and for English readers some apology. I can understand that, for those who are not well acquainted with the localities of which I am treating, it may seem that there is a quite unnecessary fulness of detail, which may tend to …
The Story of the Map of Italy
Excavations in Malta in 1914
During a week's stay in Malta in.October 1914, I was able to conduct the excavation of a portion of a megalithic building, on a site called id-debdieba ("the Place of the Echo" in Maltese), pointed out to me by Professor T. Zammit, Curator of the Valletta Museum, who frequently visited the site, and has contributed the report on the objects found whicih forms the second part of this paper.* See N. Tagliaferro, in MAN, XI (
Roman Malta
The Maltese islands, Malta, the ancient Melite, Gozo, the ancient Gaulus, and three lesser islets, lie in the centre of the Mediterranean in a significant position. They command the highway of sea-borne traffic between east and west, and they form a link between north and south, between Sicily and Tunis. They are small, indeed; their whole area is about four-fifths that of the Isle of Wight, but they are in their own fashion very fertile, their s…
Three Italian Archaeological Congresses
Italy has been and still is the scene of unprecedented archaeological activity ; and it was not unnatural that this fact should lead to the holding of a succession of congresses during the Spring. Rome, as was only fitting, opened the ball on the 2628th anniversary of her birthday, the 21st of April, with the first national congress of Roman Studies.Very wisely the organizing committee decided, as also did the Etruscan committee two years before,…
Supplementary excavations at Hal-Tarxien, Malta, in 1921
Professor T. Zammit was so kind as to invite me, during a short visit to Malta in March and April 1921, to conduct supplementary excavations under the torba floors of the sanctuary at Hal-Tarxien, which he had discovered and excavated. The results are not without interest both for the history of the building and from the nature of the objects found. They bear out Professor Zammit's conclusions as to the relative date of the various portions of th…
Antiquae Statuae Urbis Romae
The history of the monuments and works of art of the classical period, which were in existence in Rome during the Renaissance, is of importance to us for many reasons. We may learn what were the materials which were at the disposal of the great masters in architecture, painting, and sculpture, and see in their drawings and sketches, as well as in the works which they actually executed, what use they made of the models which they had before their …
Drawings of Ancient Paintings in English Collections
The subject of the present article is not altogether a new one. In 1895 Professor Lanciani published in the Bullettino Comunale (165–192) an article (cited as L.) under the title of Picturae Antiquae Cryptarum Romanarum , in which he dealt with the results of his examination of the collections at Windsor and Eton and of the Corsini MS. (158, i. 5 : Inv. 130102 sqq. ) in Rome. In 1909 the late Prof. R. Engelmann published his Antike Bilder aus röm…
Thomas Jenkins in Rome
In the latter half of the eighteenth century the trade in antiques in Rome was largely in British hands. Matthew Brettingham the younger was only employed as the agent of Lord Orford, Lord Leicester, and Lord Egremont (Michaelis, Ancient Marbles , 71 sqq. ); but another artist resident in Rome, Gavin Hamilton, served his patrons not merely by purchasing, but by excavating antiques for them in the neighbourhood of Rome; and his enterprise was rewa…
A Roman Villa Near Henley
Recent Excavations in Rome
Since the date of my last report upon this subject there has been little to chronicle in regard to the excavations in the Forum. The work of clearing the superficial strata which cover the remainder of the site of the Basilica Aemilia is proceeding somewhat slowly, and the level at which interesting discoveries may be expected has not yet been reached. Nor is the Forum Museum as yet ready. New discoveries have been confined to small excavations o…
Excavations at Caerwent in Monmouthshire
Un Panorama de Rome par Antoine Van den Wyngaerde
Ashby Thomas. Un Panorama de Rome par Antoine Van den Wyngaerde. In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, tome 21, 1901. pp. 471-486
The Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.–I
It is a tendency of all great cities to possess two distinct and often independent sets of communications, the one for local, the other for long-distance traffic; and, unless a city has suddenly sprung into being, it will be found that, in order of development, the former precedes and is the germ of the latter. In the case of Rome, we are able to trace with remarkable clearness the successive stages of the development of the road system. The road…
Dessins inédits de Carlo Labruzzi
Ashby Thomas. Dessins inédits de Carlo Labruzzi. In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, tome 23, 1903. pp. 375-418
Excavations at Caerwent in Monmouthshire
Monte Circeo
Another Panorama of Rome by Anton van den Wyngaerde
Ashby Thomas. Another Panorama of Rome by Anton van den Wyngaerde. In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, tome 26, 1906. pp. 179-193
The Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—II
The present is the second instalment of a description of the Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna , which I hope to complete in the course of time. The scale upon which it is written demands, perhaps, some explanation—and for English readers some apology. I can understand that, for those who are not well acquainted with the localities of which I am treating, it may seem that there is a quite unnecessary fulness of detail, which may tend to …
VII.— The Villa d'Este at Tivoli and the Collection of Classical Sculptures which it contained
Among the most characteristic features of the life of the Roman aristocracy in classical times may be reckoned the habit of retiring from the noise and bustle of the city to a country house in the neighbourhood. We hear of it among the Greeks, but with them it never attained the same vogue; and in Rome it was a comparatively recent development, for the first mention we have of a villa is that of the country house of the elder Scipio Africanus at …
An Unknown Sixteenth Century Topography of Rome
Recent Excavations in Rome
Since the date of my last report upon this subject there has been little to chronicle in regard to the excavations in the Forum. The work of clearing the superficial strata which cover the remainder of the site of the Basilica Aemilia is proceeding somewhat slowly, and the level at which interesting discoveries may be expected has not yet been reached. Nor is the Forum Museum as yet ready. New discoveries have been confined to small excavations o…
The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas
The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is not by any means so well known as it deserves to be; for it is certainly one of the best preserved monuments of its kind, and it is with great pleasure that we are able to include in the present volume of the Papers of the School the interesting series of drawings by Mr. F. G. Newton. It is situated on the Via Latina, immediately before the Porta Latina of the Aurelian Wall, on the righthand side going out (L…
A Roman Villa Near Henley
Recent discoveries at Ostia
The west coast of Italy between the gulf of Spezia, once the harbour of Luna, and the bay of Gaeta does not at the present day offer a single safe anchorage for ships of any size, and even in early days, when ships were smaller, its harbours and landing places must have seemed very deficient. The cities of south-western Etruria had indeed developed a flourishing seaborne trade by the seventh century B.C. when they were importing freely from Greec…
Excavations in 1908–11 in various Megalithic Buildings in Malta and Gozo
The present report deals with excavations which have been spread over a considerable period of time, and is the work of various hands. For the greater part of the introduction, and for sections I., III., V., VII., IX. XIII., I am myself responsible; the note on the affinities of the Maltese pottery, and sections II., IV., VI., X., XII., are the work of Mr. T. E. Peet; section VIII. of Professor N. Tagliaferro, I.S.O.; and section XI. of Mr. R. N.…
Thomas Jenkins in Rome
In the latter half of the eighteenth century the trade in antiques in Rome was largely in British hands. Matthew Brettingham the younger was only employed as the agent of Lord Orford, Lord Leicester, and Lord Egremont (Michaelis, Ancient Marbles , 71 sqq. ); but another artist resident in Rome, Gavin Hamilton, served his patrons not merely by purchasing, but by excavating antiques for them in the neighbourhood of Rome; and his enterprise was rewa…
Roman Remains in the Town and Territory of Velletri
Drawings of Ancient Paintings in English Collections
The subject of the present article is not altogether a new one. In 1895 Professor Lanciani published in the Bullettino Comunale (165–192) an article (cited as L.) under the title of Picturae Antiquae Cryptarum Romanarum , in which he dealt with the results of his examination of the collections at Windsor and Eton and of the Corsini MS. (158, i. 5 : Inv. 130102 sqq. ) in Rome. In 1909 the late Prof. R. Engelmann published his Antike Bilder aus röm…
Roman Malta
The Maltese islands, Malta, the ancient Melite, Gozo, the ancient Gaulus, and three lesser islets, lie in the centre of the Mediterranean in a significant position. They command the highway of sea-borne traffic between east and west, and they form a link between north and south, between Sicily and Tunis. They are small, indeed; their whole area is about four-fifths that of the Isle of Wight, but they are in their own fashion very fertile, their s…
The Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome
The Palazzo Odescalchi, a portion of which has served as the residence of the British School for a period of some fourteen years, is among the more remarkable of the palaces of Rome, both for its architectural qualities and its historical associations. Situated as it is in the centre of the city, close to the Piazza Venezia, on the west side of the spacious Piazza dei SS. Apostoli, and opposite the famous basilica which gives its name to the squa…
Drawings of Ancient Paintings in English Collections. II.—IV
In the present volume of the Papers of the British School at Rome I continue my description of certain groups of copies of ancient paintings preserved in English Collections (see Papers , vol. vii. pp. 1–62). The two volumes of drawings at Holkham Hall, the property of the Earl of Leicester, were described generally in vol. vii. pp. 1–5. The coloured drawings and the pencil sketches with colour-notes are alike the work of Francesco Bartoli ( ca. …
La Campagna Romana al tempo di Paolo III. Mappa della Campagna Romana del 1547 di Eufrosino della Volpaia
The Via Traiana
Long before the Romans had established the foundations of their power in Southern Italy, there must necessarily have existed numerous natural routes of communication between the principal centres of population, which were later utilised by the conquerors as they developed and civilised what they had won with their swords. As the Romans advanced from point to point, planting in the best strategical positions military colonies, which not only secur…
Excavations in Malta in 1914
During a week's stay in Malta in.October 1914, I was able to conduct the excavation of a portion of a megalithic building, on a site called id-debdieba ("the Place of the Echo" in Maltese), pointed out to me by Professor T. Zammit, Curator of the Valletta Museum, who frequently visited the site, and has contributed the report on the objects found whicih forms the second part of this paper.* See N. Tagliaferro, in MAN, XI (
An ancient Hill Fortress in Lucania
The ancient Lucania, the area of which corresponds, more or less, to that of the Neapolitan district of Basilicata, the modern province of Potenza, is little known even to the more leisured traveller in Italy; and we must turn to the pages of Keppel Craven and Lenormant for any but the most summary account of it. In the period of the Roman supremacy in Italy no events of singular interest are connected with Lucania, save only in the operations of…
The Bodleian MS. of Pirro Ligorio
Antiquarian research in the Renaissance period was unfortunately not always free from the reproach of deliberate falsification. It seems strange, at first sight, that the amount of genuine material discovered did not suffice to occupy the minds of archaeologists, and that they should have found it necessary to add to it by purely gratuitous inventions. But, given a certain knowledge of the subject, it was easy for a fertile brain and a facile pen…
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