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Pompeiana - The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819 (Paperback)
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Pompeiana - The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819 (Paperback)
Series: Pompeiana 2 Volume Paperback Set, Volume 2
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Sir William Gell (1777-1836) was a British archaeologist well known
for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Gell
published this new, two-volume edition of his Pompeiana in 1832, in
an effort to describe the latest archaeological discoveries in the
Roman city destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Concerned 'that time will incalculably diminish the freshness of
those objects ... stripped of their external coats by the rains of
winter or the burning suns of summer', he made it his task to
describe what he had seen both through description and through his
own numerous illustrations. In this second volume, Gell focuses on
two Pompeiian homes and provides a commentary on the illustrative
plates interspersed throughout the book. Pompeiana reveals both the
history of the excavations, the individual finds, and the processes
of field archaeology itself during a more romantic age.
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