Eric E Poehler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1704409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric E Poehler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric E |
| FAMILY NAME | Poehler |
| SIGNATURE | POEHLER E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6987-322X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Archaeological Labor
The use of computers and other digital technologies have had a long history in classical archaeology, but in the last decade, advances in software and especially hardware have begun to transform the way that archaeologists work in the field. This paper explores three examples of this phenomenon from my perspective as co-director, director, or assistant director of three different research projects between 2010 and 2019. These are the Pompeii Quad…
The viú Púmpaiianú and the Kaílú of Jupiter Meilichios
In 1851 excavators working at the Porta Stabia in Pompeii recovered the so-called Road Maker’s Tablet, an inscription mentioning how two aediles had supervised road work in the Oscan city. The find proved remarkable because it provided the Oscan names of three streets, the viú Púmpaiianú, the via Jovis, and the Dekkviarim, and mentioned a sanctuary to Jupiter Meilichios as an associated landmark. Successive generations of scholars have since prop…
HHpXRF study of recent zinc and lead pollution on lava stepping stones from Pompeii
A helium‐enabled Niton X‐ray analyser (HHpXRF) study of 296 lava stepping stones from ancient Pompeii showed that their surfaces were contaminated with superficial deposits of Zn and Pb. Recent research has shown that concentrations of these elements are highest in urban areas, where they were attributed to tyre dust and leaded petrol, respectively. The distribution of these elements on the stepping stones is represented on maps of the site. Zn p…
The Iron Streets of Pompeii
In July 2014, we conducted a survey of Pompeii's street network to document traces of iron that were observed on the stone-paved streets, which resulted in the identification of 434 instances of solid iron and iron staining among the paving stones. This paper describes the iron deposits, categorizing them into six observable types, and argues that, in the final days and weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., Pompeians were—in add…
Paving Pompeii
Careful survey of Pompeii's lava-stone pavements reveals a complex history of their origin, their repair, and the municipal administration that oversaw them. Our paper first examines two processes that inform our survey's methodology: the laying of a stone pavement and the subsequent patterns of wear that degraded it. We describe the five forms of evidence from Pompeii's streets that resulted from these processes and allow for the identification …
Evidence of Traffic
The goal of Chapter 5 is to examine the interactions between the movement of ancient vehicles and the Pompeian streetscape. Roman vehicles are therefore examined to show how their construction and design defined their interactions with that environment. Ruts, the most resonant of such interactions, are subjected to a comprehensive study here for the first time, including a description of how they were formed and what they tell us about vehicle si…
Traffic in the Roman World
Where Pompeii’s traffic system fits in the history of Roman infrastructure and urbanism is addressed in Chapter 8. To do this, the method for studying traffic developed at Pompeii is exported to Roman cities around the Mediterranean to answer two primary questions: were there two-way streets organized by driving on a particular side, and were there streets restricted to a single direction? The comparison with Timgad in particular offers an import…
World of the Mulio
Chapter 7 is the story of Sabinus, the fictional cart driver ( mulio ), from the Casa del Menandro. Sabinus is a narrative device invented to help imagine what the archaeological evidence cannot reveal: how traffic at Pompeii operated day-to-day and how as a system it was maintained. Although a fiction, the image of what Sabinus sees and encounters in the Pompeian street is a culmination and enlivening of the deep archaeological detail of precedi…
Conclusion
The preceding chapters have shown that although the evidence for the existence of a traffic system in Pompeii is extensive and cohesive, the system was neither monolithic in its design nor mechanical in its operation. In many instances, the design and operational data appear equivocal, but that apparent messiness is often an illusion of the apparent synchronicity of these two factors. Therefore, in concluding this history of Pompeii’s traffic sys…
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the evidence for a regulated circulation of wheeled traffic in the ancient world. The setting to this system is the six-hundred-year evolution of Pompeii’s street network, the focus of which telescopes from the city’s urban grid to the shape of the streets, the treatment of their surfaces, and finally the individual elements of construction—the curbstones, stepping stones, and g…
Measuring the Movement Economy
A key issue in understanding Pompeii’s economy, and particularly investment, is the city’s urban topography: not all locations in the city were commercially attractive in the same way, or to the same degree, and understanding Pompeii’s commercial landscape, and the strategic choices made by investors at certain locations, requires a detailed knowledge, particularly of the way people moved through the city. Substantially refining earlier work by L…
The drainage system at Pompeii
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Integrating Legacy Data into a New Method for Studying Architecture
This article outlines a new methodology developed to disentangle the hitherto incomprehensible maze of poorly preserved architecture at the Archaic through late Roman period Panhellenic sanctuary at Isthmia, Greece, into clearly defined buildings with their relative construction phases. The methodology combines on-site architectural analyses with the digitisation and reintegration of the site's legacy data within a GIS. The results of this study,…
The circulation of traffic in Pompeii's Regio VI
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The Traffic Systems of Pompeii
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the evidence for a regulated circulation of wheeled traffic in the ancient world. The setting to this system is the six-hundred-year evolution of Pompeii’s street network, the focus of which telescopes from the city’s urban grid to the shape of the streets, the treatment of their surfaces, and finally the individual elements of construction—the curbstones, stepping stones, and g…
The circulation of traffic in Pompeii's Regio VI
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The viú Púmpaiianú and the Kaílú of Jupiter Meilichios
In 1851 excavators working at the Porta Stabia in Pompeii recovered the so-called Road Maker’s Tablet, an inscription mentioning how two aediles had supervised road work in the Oscan city. The find proved remarkable because it provided the Oscan names of three streets, the viú Púmpaiianú, the via Jovis, and the Dekkviarim, and mentioned a sanctuary to Jupiter Meilichios as an associated landmark. Successive generations of scholars have since prop…
Paving Pompeii
Careful survey of Pompeii's lava-stone pavements reveals a complex history of their origin, their repair, and the municipal administration that oversaw them. Our paper first examines two processes that inform our survey's methodology: the laying of a stone pavement and the subsequent patterns of wear that degraded it. We describe the five forms of evidence from Pompeii's streets that resulted from these processes and allow for the identification …
The circulation of traffic in Pompeii's Regio VI
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Integrating Legacy Data into a New Method for Studying Architecture
This article outlines a new methodology developed to disentangle the hitherto incomprehensible maze of poorly preserved architecture at the Archaic through late Roman period Panhellenic sanctuary at Isthmia, Greece, into clearly defined buildings with their relative construction phases. The methodology combines on-site architectural analyses with the digitisation and reintegration of the site's legacy data within a GIS. The results of this study,…
The drainage system at Pompeii
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Measuring the Movement Economy
A key issue in understanding Pompeii’s economy, and particularly investment, is the city’s urban topography: not all locations in the city were commercially attractive in the same way, or to the same degree, and understanding Pompeii’s commercial landscape, and the strategic choices made by investors at certain locations, requires a detailed knowledge, particularly of the way people moved through the city. Substantially refining earlier work by L…
Evidence of Traffic
The goal of Chapter 5 is to examine the interactions between the movement of ancient vehicles and the Pompeian streetscape. Roman vehicles are therefore examined to show how their construction and design defined their interactions with that environment. Ruts, the most resonant of such interactions, are subjected to a comprehensive study here for the first time, including a description of how they were formed and what they tell us about vehicle si…
Traffic in the Roman World
Where Pompeii’s traffic system fits in the history of Roman infrastructure and urbanism is addressed in Chapter 8. To do this, the method for studying traffic developed at Pompeii is exported to Roman cities around the Mediterranean to answer two primary questions: were there two-way streets organized by driving on a particular side, and were there streets restricted to a single direction? The comparison with Timgad in particular offers an import…
World of the Mulio
Chapter 7 is the story of Sabinus, the fictional cart driver ( mulio ), from the Casa del Menandro. Sabinus is a narrative device invented to help imagine what the archaeological evidence cannot reveal: how traffic at Pompeii operated day-to-day and how as a system it was maintained. Although a fiction, the image of what Sabinus sees and encounters in the Pompeian street is a culmination and enlivening of the deep archaeological detail of precedi…
Conclusion
The preceding chapters have shown that although the evidence for the existence of a traffic system in Pompeii is extensive and cohesive, the system was neither monolithic in its design nor mechanical in its operation. In many instances, the design and operational data appear equivocal, but that apparent messiness is often an illusion of the apparent synchronicity of these two factors. Therefore, in concluding this history of Pompeii’s traffic sys…
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the evidence for a regulated circulation of wheeled traffic in the ancient world. The setting to this system is the six-hundred-year evolution of Pompeii’s street network, the focus of which telescopes from the city’s urban grid to the shape of the streets, the treatment of their surfaces, and finally the individual elements of construction—the curbstones, stepping stones, and g…
Paving Pompeii
Careful survey of Pompeii's lava-stone pavements reveals a complex history of their origin, their repair, and the municipal administration that oversaw them. Our paper first examines two processes that inform our survey's methodology: the laying of a stone pavement and the subsequent patterns of wear that degraded it. We describe the five forms of evidence from Pompeii's streets that resulted from these processes and allow for the identification …
The Iron Streets of Pompeii
In July 2014, we conducted a survey of Pompeii's street network to document traces of iron that were observed on the stone-paved streets, which resulted in the identification of 434 instances of solid iron and iron staining among the paving stones. This paper describes the iron deposits, categorizing them into six observable types, and argues that, in the final days and weeks before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., Pompeians were—in add…
HHpXRF study of recent zinc and lead pollution on lava stepping stones from Pompeii
A helium‐enabled Niton X‐ray analyser (HHpXRF) study of 296 lava stepping stones from ancient Pompeii showed that their surfaces were contaminated with superficial deposits of Zn and Pb. Recent research has shown that concentrations of these elements are highest in urban areas, where they were attributed to tyre dust and leaded petrol, respectively. The distribution of these elements on the stepping stones is represented on maps of the site. Zn p…
The viú Púmpaiianú and the Kaílú of Jupiter Meilichios
In 1851 excavators working at the Porta Stabia in Pompeii recovered the so-called Road Maker’s Tablet, an inscription mentioning how two aediles had supervised road work in the Oscan city. The find proved remarkable because it provided the Oscan names of three streets, the viú Púmpaiianú, the via Jovis, and the Dekkviarim, and mentioned a sanctuary to Jupiter Meilichios as an associated landmark. Successive generations of scholars have since prop…
Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Archaeological Labor
The use of computers and other digital technologies have had a long history in classical archaeology, but in the last decade, advances in software and especially hardware have begun to transform the way that archaeologists work in the field. This paper explores three examples of this phenomenon from my perspective as co-director, director, or assistant director of three different research projects between 2010 and 2019. These are the Pompeii Quad…
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