Designating Place

Hans Kamermans and L. Bouke van der Meer (eds)

Designating Place Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii

Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the mayor topics in archaeological research. Designating place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways: geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book is based on the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people she worked with, people she inspired and people who were presented on sessions she organized. The part on geophysics contains new data on Ostia from teams from the University of Delft in the Netherlands and from Canada and Germany. The spatial analysis discusses mainly the pro and cons of the use of Space Syntacs, the computer program Hanna used to analyse Ostia with contributions from scholars from the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and the USA. The last two parts on iconographic and epigraphic analysis consists of articles by researchers from the Netherlands and Norway.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES LEIDEN UNIVERSITY

Publication date Autumn 2020 NUR 682 ISBN 9789087283575 e-pdf 9789400603981 e-pub 9789400603998 Language English Price € 46.00 £ 41.50 $ 54.50 Format Paperback illustrated 210 x 273 mm Page extent 172 Cover design Joanne Porck Imprint LUP Academic

Hans Kamermans was associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. His research is in the field of computer applications in archaeology, in particular predictive modelling. He was involved in fieldwork in the Netherlands, England, France, Germany and Italy (the Agro Pontino survey and Ostia).

L. Bouke van der Meer is retired associate professor in Classical Archaeology. He has published books and articles on Etruscan archaeology and language. He also did research in Ostia Antica (on the use of travertine and on the Domus Fulminata). His monograph Ostia speaks. Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome’s main port appeared in 2012.