ABOUT THIS BOOK
A collection of diverse archaeological approaches to Roman cities.
 
Designating Place showcases the diverse ways archaeologists approach ancient urban spaces—including geophysical, spatial, iconographic, and epigraphic analyses. Drawing on techniques as wide-ranging as Space Syntax, shallow seismic reflection surveys, linguistic landscape studies, and collective memory studies, this international team of scholars presents the latest insights from cutting-edge research into urban societies near Rome and Pompeii.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Hans Kamermans is associate professor of Archaeology at Leiden University. L. Bouke van der Meer is associate professor of Classical Archaeology at Leiden University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Hans Kamermans & L. Bouke van der Meer

Part 1 Geophysical analysis
2. Behind the Block: results from a geophysical study of the unexcavated area in the southwest of Ostia
Mark A. Locicero & Till Sonnemann
3. Exploring with GPR the frigidarium of the Byzantine baths in Ostia Antica after excavation, backfilling and floor re-tiling
Dominique Ngan-Tillard, Deyan Draganov, Martijn Warnaar, Jianhuan Liu, Joeri Brackenhoff, Jens van den Berg, Auke Veltmeijer & Hanna Stöger†
4. Ultra-shallow shear-wave reflections locating near-surface buried structures in the unexcavated southern fringe of the ancient Ostia, Rome
Ranajit Ghose, Jianhuan Liu, Deyan Draganov, Dominique Ngan-Tillard, Martijn Warnaar, Joeri Brackenhoff, Jens van den Berg & Hanna Stöger†
Part 2 Spatial analysis

5. Embellishing the Streets of Ostia
Janet DeLaine & Yoshiki Hori
6. Space Syntax a Ostia Antica: le Terme del Nuotatore, insula V, x, e il complesso delle Terme dei Sette Sapienti, insula III, x. Space Syntax Analysis in Ostia: the Baths of the Swimmer, insula V, x, and the complex of the Baths of the Seven Sages, insula III, x
Maura Medri, Valeria Di Cola & Giorgia Pasquali
7. From the forum to the gate. Commercial investment and Ostia’s Cardo
Miko Flohr
8. Revisiting old data with new techniques. A re-evaluation of insulae V, ii and IV, ii in Ostia through the eyes of Space Syntax
Alexander C.Q. Jansen
9. The Social Construction of Roman Industrial Space: The Limits of Chaînes Opératoires and the Nature of Roman Baking
Jared T. Benton

Part 3 Iconographic analysis

10. Realia, Rituals and Symbols of the Torlonia Relief
L. Bouke van der Meer
11. Bodies and Buildings: Space, Decoration and Ritual in the Roman Domestic Bath
Kristian Reinfjord
Part 4 Epigraphic analysis
12. Verba Volant, Scripta Manent. Reconstructing the Linguistic Landscape of Ostia Antica.
Fenno Noij
13. CUIUS MEMORIA VIVIT. On the manifestation of collective memory in fifteen inscriptions from the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia.
Kaylee M. Branse
Part 5 Hanna Stöger
14. A Hommage to Hanna Stöger
John Bintliff
15. Publications by Hanna Stöger