An edition of Rediscovering antiquity (1995)

Rediscovering antiquity

Karl Weber and the excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae

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An edition of Rediscovering antiquity (1995)

Rediscovering antiquity

Karl Weber and the excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae

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Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae examines the early history of the excavations at three important sites of classical antiquity that first came to light in 1738, through the life and work of Karl Jakob Weber, a Swiss military engineer who supervised these investigations from 1750 to 1764.

While many of his contemporaries sought only the recovery of precious antiquities to the exclusion of the architectural remains, Weber sought to retrieve evidence of the ancient urban fabric and to relate his discoveries to their archaeological context, thereby establishing the first systematic approach for these excavations.

He also proposed a revolutionary manner of publishing his findings, in which all of the works of art from an individual site would appear together with detailed plans, drawings, and commentary drawn from classical and modern sources.

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Rediscovering antiquity: Karl Weber and the excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae
1998, New York, Cambridge University Press
in English - 1st paperback ed.
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Rediscovering antiquity: Karl Weber and the excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae
1995, New York, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-382) and indexes.

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Dewey Decimal Class
937/.7
Library of Congress
DG70.P7 P37 1995

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xx, 394 p. :
Number of pages
394

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OL1111716M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0521471508
LCCN
94037541
OCLC/WorldCat
31239441
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