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E-book Building the Countryside : Rural Architecture and Settlement in the Tripolitanian Countryside

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Penilaian

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he region of Tripolitania is well-known for its spec-tacular Roman-period architecture in both city and country. The enormous and elaborate temples, baths, basilicae and other public buildings of the coastal cit-ies of Lepcis Magna, Sabratha and others, have, not undeservedly, captured the attention and imagina-tion of travellers and scholars alike for centuries and are evidence of the rich culture and great wealth of these ancient cities.1 The architecture and settlement of the countryside are different from that of the cities in many ways, but no less important. Although not on a scale to rival the size or richness of the architecture of the urban centres, the buildings of the countryside, including lavish coastal villas, towering gsur, forts and monumental mausolea are striking evidence of large numbers of people not only surviving, but thriving, in an often harsh, marginal environment, on the south-ern-most edges of the Roman Empire. However, a far larger proportion of rural buildings are not nearly so impressive, being of far simpler construction and with little extant decoration, making them very difficult or impossible to date without other forms of evidence. For these reasons and others, rural farm buildings, particu-larly the small, unremarkable ones, have not received the same attention as the larger, more impressive struc-tures. Nevertheless, large or small, lavish or plain, like all material culture, architecture is the outcome of a series of deliberate choices shaped by the context in which it was constructed. The activities that take place within buildings and the uses that people assign to them, give them meaning.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

930 SHE b

Penerbit

London : The Society for Libyan Studies., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

433 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781900971782

Klasifikasi

930

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

History of Ancient World to 499

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