Regionaries-Type Insulae 1

Architectural/Residential Units at Ostia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4926977
AutoresGlenn R Storey (autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume105
Fascículo3
Páginas389-401
Data de publicação2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/507362
OpenAlexW2315872521
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas2

The question of the disposition and arrangement of Roman residential units has long been a feature of the archaeological study of the Roman ruins of the Vesuvian cities, and Ostia, the port of Rome. In this paper, the results of recent research at Ostia are reported regarding the division of internal space within the fabric of street blocks, in the hopes of throwing light on the vexed question of the proper referent for the term insula as it occurs in the fourth-century A.D. Regionaries catalogues of Rome. In the past, arguments have gone back and forth as to whether insula in the Regionaries referred to an apartment building or an individual apartment. The conclusions of this analysis strongly suggest that the term referred to a separate apartment-like unit, here called an architectural/residential unit (ARU)

Apartment · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Feature (linguistics) · History of architecture · Insula · Linguistics · Term (time) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Architecture · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Philosophy