The aim of this study is to examine the relationship of the Roman villa to its environment. The villa was an important feature of the countryside intended both for agricultural production and for leisure. Manuals of Roman agriculture give instructions on how to select a location for an estate. The ideal location was a moderate slope facing east or south in a healthy area and good neighborhood, near good water resources and fertile soils. A road or a navigable river or the sea was needed for transportation of produce. A market for selling the produce, a town or a village, should have been nearby. The research area is the surroundings of the city of Rome, a key area for the development of the villa. The materials used consist of archaeologi...
The Roman period is well represented in Kent’s long history of excavation and discovery and it has s...
At Positano, the renowned town of the Amalfi coast (Salerno province), a Roman villa was found benea...
The appearance and spread of villas both in Roman Italy and abroad has been at the centre of a vast ...
The term villa typically has been applied in antiquity and in modern scholarship to denote a rural r...
This article is a contribution to the geography of villas in Roman Gaul. It discusses the discoverie...
Pompeii, buried by the explosive A.D. 79 eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, is one of the most studied anci...
The Roman villa is a distinct typology emerging from urban precedents which are transformed by site,...
The remains of the Żejtun Roman Villa lie on the highest point of a long, somewhat flat ridge that...
The Roman villa was a defining element of the Roman world and its appearance and spread, both in va...
In general, Roman-period archaeological research in the regions north of the Roman Empire is site-ba...
Since the 1960s, excavations, survey and environmental studies have generated a wealth of data on th...
This paper examines the Roman villas of the coastal regions of the Ionian and eastern Adriatic seas,...
This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in...
This paper presents a discussion of two related developments in the archaeology of the Roman rural l...
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces o...
The Roman period is well represented in Kent’s long history of excavation and discovery and it has s...
At Positano, the renowned town of the Amalfi coast (Salerno province), a Roman villa was found benea...
The appearance and spread of villas both in Roman Italy and abroad has been at the centre of a vast ...
The term villa typically has been applied in antiquity and in modern scholarship to denote a rural r...
This article is a contribution to the geography of villas in Roman Gaul. It discusses the discoverie...
Pompeii, buried by the explosive A.D. 79 eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, is one of the most studied anci...
The Roman villa is a distinct typology emerging from urban precedents which are transformed by site,...
The remains of the Żejtun Roman Villa lie on the highest point of a long, somewhat flat ridge that...
The Roman villa was a defining element of the Roman world and its appearance and spread, both in va...
In general, Roman-period archaeological research in the regions north of the Roman Empire is site-ba...
Since the 1960s, excavations, survey and environmental studies have generated a wealth of data on th...
This paper examines the Roman villas of the coastal regions of the Ionian and eastern Adriatic seas,...
This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in...
This paper presents a discussion of two related developments in the archaeology of the Roman rural l...
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces o...
The Roman period is well represented in Kent’s long history of excavation and discovery and it has s...
At Positano, the renowned town of the Amalfi coast (Salerno province), a Roman villa was found benea...
The appearance and spread of villas both in Roman Italy and abroad has been at the centre of a vast ...