Regionaries-Type Insulae 2
Architectural/Residential Units at Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4534793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn R Storey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-434 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4126281 |
| OpenAlex | W2322622503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 5 |
The architectural/residential unit (ARU) concept previously defined and elaborated for Ostia is here considered in light of the Roman evidence. I conclude that the ARU is the best candidate to be the archaeological correlate of the term insula in the Regionaries. This conclusion is drawn in light of (1) the weight of evidence from review of the documentary sources that points to or is compatible with the concept of the ARU; (2) statistical analysis of the figures given in the Regionaries that establishes that the catalogues probably report statistics that may echo reasonably reliable statistics and are not made up fantasies; (3) the results of geographic information systems (GIS) analysis of the space utilization implications of the Regionaries statistics in Region 12 of ancient Rome; and (4) consideration of the probable number of separate structures in ancient Rome compared with more recent preindustrial urban centers. Finally, the polysemic nature of residential terms in different languages may explain why there has been understandable controversy over the interpretation of the term insula as it occurs in the Regionaries. Work for the future suggested by this analysis includes investigating whether ARUs were commonly defined in association with staircases to upper floors, and how the nature of the urban fabric of ancient Rome may have differed from that of later Italian towns, which appear to show greater preponderance of residential configurations based on the row house
Archaeology · Cartography · Geography · Insula · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Space (punctuation) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History
Cemeteries and catacombs
Civic rituals and political spaces in republican and imperial Rome
The city in Ruins
Marriages, families, households
Riots
(Sub)urban surroundings
Roma Aeterna
Immigration and cosmopolitanization
‘Romans, play on!’
Slavesand freedmen
Structuring time
Water supply, drainage and watermills
Sex and the city
The urban topography of Rome
Regions and neighbourhoods
Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome
Counting bricks and stacking wood
The emergence of the city
The food supply of the capital
An immigrant neighbourhood in ancient Rome
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
The collective logic of pre-modern cities
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |