2016/01/01 by Rachel Opitz, Nicola Terrenato, Marcello Mogetta · 1 voice · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Classical Antiquity Studies #Archaeology and Historical Studies
paper · doi:10.3998/mpub.9231782
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2017/01/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Since 2009 the Gabii Project, an international archaeological initiative led by Nicola Terrenato and the University of Michigan, has been investigating the ancient Latin town of Gabii, which was both a neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BCE. The trajectory of Gabii, from an Iron Age settlement to a flourishing mid-Republican town to an Imperial agglomeration widely thought to be in decline, provides a new perspective on the dynamics of settlement in central Italy. This publication focuses on the construction, inhabitation, and repurposing of a private home at Gabii, built in the mid-Republican period. The remains of the house provide new information on the architecture and organization of domestic space in this period, adding to a limited corpus of well-dated examples. Importantly, the house's micro-history sheds light on the tensions between private and public development at Gabii as the town grew and reorganized itself in the mid- to late-Republican period transition. Published in digital form as a website backed up by a detailed database, the publication provides a synthesis of the excavation results linked to the relevant spatial, descriptive, and quantitative data.