Demolition, salvage and re-use in the city of Rome 100 BC-AD 315
This thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of salvage and re-use within the construction industry of the capital. It uses the extant archaeological remains, epigraphic and other documentary sources in combination with pre-modern building manuals and modern concepts of quantity surveying in order to set the evidence against the broader background of the economics of Roman building practices. To this end, it focuses on the contextual background for the study as a whole, looking at interpretations of spolia and examining some of the previous assumptions, concepts and explanations for the application of re-used materials, while placing re-use in a broader history of Roman construction (Chapter 1); the archaeological evidence for both demolition and salvaging (Chapter 2); the re-use of mass-materials such as bricks, blocks and rubble, as well as high-status material, such as column shafts, capitals and marble blocks (Chapter 3); the practicalities of dismantling and re-use (Chapter 4); the methodology behind the deconstruction-analyses of different types of Roman construction techniques based on the use of post-antique documentary evidence, in particular nineteenth-century building manuals,
Barker, Simon J.
Demolition, salvage and re-use in the city of Rome 100 BC-AD 315. This thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of salvage and re-use within the construction industry of the capital. It uses the extant archaeological remains, epigraphic and other documentary sources in combination with pre-modern building manuals and modern concepts of quantity surveying in order to set the evidence against the broader background of the economics of Roman building practices. To this end, it focuses on the contextual background for the study as a whole, looking at interpretations of spolia and examining some of the previous assumptions, concepts and explanations for the application of re-used materials, while placing re-use in a broader history of Roman construction (Chapter 1); the archaeological evidence for both demolition and salvaging (Chapter 2); the re-use of mass-materials such as bricks, blocks and rubble, as well as high-status material, such as column shafts, capitals and marble blocks (Chapter 3); the practicalities of dismantling and re-use (Chapter 4); the methodology behind the deconstruction-analyses of different types of Roman construction techniques based on the use of post-antique documentary evidence, in particular nineteenth-century building manuals,
salvage re_use city_rome employ interdisciplinary salvage re_use within construction industry capital extant archaeological_remains epigraphic documentary_source combination pre_modern building manual modern concept quantity survey order set evidence broader background economics roman_building practice end focus contextual background study whole look interpretation spolia examine previous_assumption concept explanation application re_used material place re_use broad history roman construction archaeological_evidence re_use mass materials brick block rubble well high_status material column shaft capital marble block practicality dismantle re_use behind deconstruction analyses different_type roman construction_technique base use post antique documentary_evidence particular nineteenth_century building manual