Bringing Carthage home the excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the Britis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxbow Books, for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world ; v. 2. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47052077*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nathan Davis at Carthage
- Davis in his social context
- Davis becomes an archaeologist
- The site of Carthage
- Davis gets to work
- Mosaics discovered at Carthage before Davis' excavations
- The late Roman mosaic of the months and seasons
- Excavations on other sites in the spring of 1857
- Punic votive stelae
- Excavation at Carthage in the second half of 1857
- Davis moves outside Roman Carthage
- Davis' late mosaic finds
- Davis in competition with Beulé
- The contribution of the pioneer archaeologists at Carthage.
