Pompeiana 2 Volume Paperback Set
The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819

This new, two-volume 1832 edition details the then current archaeological excavations in Pompeii through text and illustration.

William Gell (Author)

9781108012560, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 30 September 2010

1102 pages
32.2 x 25.2 x 7 cm, 1.2 kg

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 volume 1, Gell focuses on sites including the forum, baths, and the 'temple of Fortune', while volume 2 focuses on two Pompeiian homes. Pompeiana reveals both the history of the excavations, the individual finds, and the processes of field archaeology itself during a more romantic age.

Volume I: Preface
1. General plan
2. Chalcidicum
3. Forum
4. Pantheon, or College of the Augustales
5. Temple of Fortune
6. Thermae
7. Women's baths
8. House of the Tragic Poet
9. Fullonica
10. House of the Fountain. Volume II: 11. House of the Second Fountain
12. House of the Dioscuri
13. House of the Dioscuri
Description of the plates
Description of the vignettes
Appendices.

Subject Areas: History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE [ACG]