City of emperors (c. AD 285–350)

2021 ◽  
pp. 350-361
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Imperial Palace ◽  
New Public ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the archaeological evidence from London for the short-lived ‘British Empire’ of Carausius and his successor Allectus, when the city gained the pretensions of an imperial capital. Allectus commissioned a massive new public building complex along the riverside. This appears to have incorporated two unusually late examples of classical temples, which were perhaps attached to an imperial palace. In addition to summarizing previously published work, the text includes new speculations as to the character and identity of these temples. The suggestion that the boat found at County Hall in 1910 had been built as part of Carausius’ fleet is tentatively revived. The mint established at this time continued in operation after Constantius’s reconquest of Britain and Constantine’s subsequent assumption of power. The archaeological remains of this period are described to show that London remained an important administrative centre, but power was exercised from private houses and compounds. The city was no longer a port of consequence, and several of London’s most important public buildings were made redundant, quarried for buildings materials, and replaced by workshops.

A MONUMENTAL MID-REPUBLICAN BUILDING COMPLEX AT GABII

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Johnston ◽  
Marcello Mogetta ◽  
Laura Banducci ◽  
Rachel Opitz ◽  
Anna Gallone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
Roman Architecture ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
City Block ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Volcanic Terrain ◽  
Ritual Activity ◽  
The City

Excavations at the Latin city of Gabii in 2012–15 conducted by the Gabii Project have uncovered a monumental building complex, hitherto known only very partially from previous excavations in the 1990s. Organized on a series of three artificial terraces that regularized the slope of the volcanic terrain, it measures some 60 m by 35 m, occupying an entire city-block. It is prominently situated at one of the most central locations within the city, on the main urban thoroughfare at the important intersection of the roads from Tibur, Praeneste and Rome. Stratigraphic evidence and construction techniques date the original phase of the building to the mid-third century BC. This report focuses on a contextualization and description of this first, mid-Republican phase and offers a preliminary interpretation of this complex as a public building, with spaces designed for a variety of functions: bathing, public feasting, and ritual activity. If this is correct, it now represents one of the very few examples of public buildings other than temples and fortifications known from the mid-Republican period, and sheds important light on the development of Roman architecture and of the Latin cities in a crucial and obscure period.

The Cities and the Emperor

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Public Buildings ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
Local Funding ◽  
Separate Identity ◽  
The City

Monumental architecture, then, strengthened a sense of public or civic identity in Antonine cities. But, because a public building could assert the political power of a city and, in so doing, challenge the aspirations of a rival city, it was potentially destabilizing in the context of the Empire as a whole. A balance had to be struck between the development of urban forms that reinvigorated a city’s urban identity and promoted the power of local elites loyal to Rome, and the consolidation of the unity of the Empire. Public buildings were the symbols of their city’s separate identity, but they could also represent the power of Rome and its ruling dynasty. Although provincial public buildings were mainly funded by the largesse of local elites, they could also be the result of imperial initiatives or a combination of local funding and imperial support. How far was this involvement of the emperor and his staff motivated by the attempt to control or ‘harmonize’ the architectural appearance of provincial cities? The following two chapters address the question of how, under the Antonines, supposedly civic buildings became, in effect, ‘imperial architecture’. This chapter examines the role of Antoninus Pius and his successors in two instances, the cities of Ionia in the East and the reconstruction of Carthage in the West; and considers the extent to which new buildings there promoted an imperial, rather than a local, ideology. Chapter 8 explores the characteristics of such ‘imperial architecture’ more generally. Local civic pride was a strong factor in the architecture of cities in the Roman East. Public buildings were a marriage of civic loyalty and personal desire for fame. Benefactors competed to advance their own architectural projects as of particular importance to a city in her rivalry with her neighbours. When Dio ‘Chrysostom’ Cocceianus paid for the construction of a stoa in Prusa at the beginning of the second century, he was attacked by others for ‘digging up the city’ and creating a desert. Later, when he planned to erect another public building for the city, opponents urged that he had brought down ‘monuments and sacred buildings’.

Anuruddha and the Thaton Tradition

1947 ◽  
Vol 79 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 152-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Quaritch Wales
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Pali Canon ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Expansion ◽  
Pāli Canon

The Burmese chronicles are emphatic that it was from the Mon city of Thaton that King Anuruddha in a.d. 1057 obtained the Pāli canon. Yet students of Burmese history have been by no means insensitive to the difficulty of reconciling this with the exclusively Hindu character of the more or less contemporary archæological remains at Thaton. The late Prince Damrong even went so far as to suggest that P'rӑ Paṭhóm, in the neighbouring Buddhist kingdom of Dvaravatī, rather than Thaton in Burma, must have been the city that Anuruddha conquered, and from which he derived his Hīnayāna Buddhism. I now propose shortly to reconsider the archæological evidence, in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the mechanics of Indian cultural expansion and of a certain passage in one of the Mon chronicles to which attention has not hitherto been directed in this particular connection. I believe that this may help us to resolve the difficulty.

scholarly journals Kajian Pola Ornamen (Ragam Hias) Bernuansa Melayu untuk Fasade Bangunan Publik di Kota Pontianak

Jurnal Vokasi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Wahyudin Ciptadi ◽  
Erwin Rizal Hamzah ◽  
Dewi Ria Indriana
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Public Building ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Building Facades ◽  
The City

There is a phenomenon in the Regional Government of Pontianak City in realizing a public building facade, especially office functions that have a local identity value, which are required to apply the use of distinctive local ornaments (ornaments). One of the local ornaments (decorations) that will be used in public buildings in Pontianak is the Pontianak Malay nuances. The use of local ornaments (ornaments) that are applied in public buildings in the city of Pontianak is heavily influenced by elements found in traditional Pontianak Malay houses and from the Pontianak Kadriah Palace.The determine benchmarks aspects in discussing the study of ornamental patterns in a building, namely by using a model system (stylistic system) from the theory of N.J. Habraken (1978). System model (stylistic system) is a method used to determine benchmarks related to style or style including facades, door and window shapes and ornamental elements (decoration) both in the upper (head), middle (body) elements. ), and elements of the bottom (foot) of the building. In this applied research, the object of his research is the pattern of ornaments (decorative styles) with Pontianak Malay nuances used in traditional Pontianak Malay houses and the Pontianak Kadriah Palace. This applied research aims to compile and study a database of Pontianak Malay nuances of ornamental patterns so that they can be used for the design of public buildings in Pontianak, especially office functions. This applied research uses a rationalistic-qualitative approach by taking several research samples from the Pontianak Kadriah Palace and the population of traditional Pontianak Malay houses that are in 3 (three) communality zones. This study uses several stages of the implementation process, namely: the data collection stage (initial observation, follow-up observation, and interviews) and the data analysis stage and discussion of the research results. The expected result of this applied research is the compilation and documentation of a database of ornamental patterns with Pontianak Malay nuances that can be used for the design of public building facades in Pontianak, West Kalimantan.

scholarly journals Virtual Sound Field of the Roman Theatre of Malaca

Acoustics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Javier Alayón ◽  
Sara Girón ◽  
José A. Romero-Odero ◽  
Francisco J. Nieves
Keyword(s):  
3D Model ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
Stone Surface ◽  
Process Adjustment ◽  
Decay Parameters ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The City

In Hispania (present-day Spain and Portugal), there are 25 structures documented of classical Roman open-air theatres, of which 10 are in the south, in the Roman Baetica (Andalusia). The Baetica embraced the progress of urbanisation in the time of the Roman emperor Augustus, where theatres, built in stone, were the foci of entertainment, performance, and propaganda of the empire. The Roman theatre in Malaga presents the archaeological remains of the main vestige of the Roman Malaca. It is located in the historical centre of the city, at the foot of the hill of the Muslim Alcazaba and was discovered in 1952. It is a medium-sized theatre whose design corresponds to a mixed construction that combines making use of the hillside for the terraces, in the manner of Greek theatres, with a major construction where rock is non-existent, thereby creating the necessary space for the stands. In this paper, the production process, adjustment, and validation of the 3D model of the theatre are analysed for the creation of a numerical predictive model of its sound field. Acoustic properties of the venue are examined and the effect of the Muslim Alcazaba and the hillside on the various acoustic descriptors is analysed. The results highlight the influence of this large stone surface mainly on the time decay parameters.

Identification of domestic chicken bones in archaeological sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Hui Deng ◽  
Jun Li
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Chicken ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Morphological Identification ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Bone Morphology ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Future Work

AbstractIn recent years, with the participation of genetics and other disciplines, the controversy on the origins of the domestic chicken has returned. As the resource of primary data, archaeology plays an extremely important role in this dispute. Taking an archaeological standpoint, this paper aims to establish a set of bone morphological identification standards for domestic chicken bones unearthed at archaeological remains, beginning with the bone morphology as the most basic but also the least studied aspect. By this set of standards, we reanalyze available chicken bone materials and relevant pictorial and textual materials for domestic chicken candidate samples as mentioned by previous scholars. The results show that no confirmed domestic chicken bones have been found in China’s early to mid-Holocene remains to date; meanwhile, there is no substantial archaeological evidence to support China as the earliest place of origin of domestic chicken. Future work seeking to advance research on the origin of the domestic chicken should first pay proper attention to the archaeological background; only continuing scientific analyses and exploration on the origin of domestic chicken based on scientific morphological identification will prove the most convincing methodology.

scholarly journals The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-636
Author(s):  
Noam Maggor
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
British Empire ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Atlantic Trade ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
American Nation

Mark Peterson's The City-State of Boston is a formidable work of history—prodigiously researched, lucidly written, immense in scope, and yet scrupulously detailed. A meticulous history of New England over more than two centuries, the book argues that Boston and its hinterland emerged as a city-state, a “self-governing republic” that was committed first and foremost to its own regional autonomy (p. 6). Rather than as a British colonial outpost or the birthplace of the American Revolution—the site of a nationalist struggle for independence—the book recovers Boston's long-lost tradition as a “polity in its own right,” a fervently independent hub of Atlantic trade whose true identity placed it in tension with the overtures of both the British Empire and, later, the American nation-state (p. 631).

Obstacles on the Path to Urban Greatness: Competing Plans for the Creation of Greater Lviv (“Wielki Lwów”)

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-671
Author(s):  
Nadja Weck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
The Future ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

Like in many other provinces, during the Habsburg period, the main point of orientation for Galicia was Vienna. This also applies to architecture and urban development. Galicia’s technical elite applied the theoretical and practical experience it gathered in Vienna to the towns and cities of this northeastern Crown land. Ignacy Drexler, born in 1878 in the Austro-Hungarian Lemberg, was a representative of a new generation of engineers and architects who did not necessarily have to spend time in the imperial capital to earn their spurs. Increasingly, besides the more or less obligatory stay in Vienna, other European countries became points of reference. Drexler did not live to see the realization of important aspects of his comprehensive plan for the city, but his ideas and the data he compiled were indispensable for the future development of his hometown. They shape urban planning in Lviv to this day.

Research on Energy Consumption Quota for Public Buildings in Hebei Province

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 231-234
Author(s):  
Shi Long Liu ◽  
Yue Qun Xu ◽  
De Sheng Ju
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Method ◽  
Energy Auditing ◽  
Building Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
Actual Energy Consumption

Based on 107 data of public building energy auditing and energy consumption statistics, using multiple linear regression method, this paper given an equation for calculating energy public building consumption quota. It can get energy consumption quota simply and conveniently. The equation was close to actual energy consumption of public buildings. It consider building area, heating degree day (HDD) and building type. The results can be help the government formulate the energy consumption quota for public buildings.

Conference on the Limitation of Armament and Problems of the Pacific

1921 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-510
Author(s):  
James Brown Scott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
The City

A conference of a group of Powers heretofore known as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers (the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and the United States), to discuss the limitation of armament, and of these Powers, and Belgium, China, the Netherlands and Portugal, to consider Pacific and Far Eastern problems, will open in the City of Washington on November 11, 1921.

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