| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Archaeopress Roman Archaeology ; 89 |
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Archaeopress Roman archaeology.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- 1. -- Introduction -- 2. -- Location and urban topography of Siscia according to literary sources -- 3. -- 3.1. Excavations in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century -- 3. -- Figure 1. Mapped areas of the archaeological and geophysical researches from the 1950s to 2003 (after Bedenko and others 2003 -- drawn by Renato Cottiero) -- History of the archaeological research -- 3.2. Archaeological research in the period 1945-1979 |
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3.3. Archaeological research in the period 1980-2020 -- 3.4. Similar works (syntheses) -- 4. -- 4. -- Figure 2. Tabula Peutingeriana with the first known pictorial representation of Siscia from the 4th century (http://www.tabula-peutingeriana.de -- http://www.onb.ac.at) -- Figure 3. Hereford Mappa Mundi (13th century), a detail showing Siscia (http://www.herefordcathedral.org/ -- www.unesco.org/.../hereford-mappa-mundi) -- Figure 4. Siscia and its surrounding: the network of roads and water courses (the rivers Sava, Odra, and Lonja with their tributaries) (Marsigli date of publication not identified) |
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Figure 12. View of the remains of the bridge and a channel outflow on the left bank of the Kupa (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 13. Remains of buildings of Roman Siscia (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 14. Field drawing of the remains of buildings of Siscia in Sisak at the beginning of the 18th century (Marsigli, date of publication not identified) -- Figure 15. Canal dug between the rivers Kupa and Sava (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 16. Detail of a drawing in pencil, showing the pavement of the developed bank of the Kupa (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 17. Cross section of the channel emptying into the Kupa on its left bank (Marsigli date of publication not identified) |
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Figure 18. Field drawing with elevations: the location of the remains of a bridge between the northern and southern gates? (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 19. Detail of the Hydrographic map of Sisak from 1783 (Cartographic Collection of the War Archive in Vienna, after Slukan Altić 2004) -- Figure 20. Map of Sisak by M. Stariczky from 1783 (The National Library, Budapest, after Vuković 2010) -- Figure 21. Detail of the 1813 map from the period of French rule (Cartographic Collection of the Chapter Archive in Zagreb) |
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Figure 5. Marsigli's plan of Siscia from 1726 (Marsigli 1726) -- Figure 6. Marsigli's plan of Siscia from the beginning of the 18th century (Marsigli, date of publication not identified: 1044,n.101,fasc. A) -- Figure 7. North gate of Siscia (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 8. Remains of the eastern town wall (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 10. Cross section of the western stretch of the town walls and the bank of the Kupa (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 9. Cross section of the eastern stretch of the town walls (Marsigli date of publication not identified) -- Figure 11. Cross section of a channel, probably part of the sewage system (Marsigli date of publication not identified) |
| Summary |
By processing data from every archaeological excavation, and analysis and interpretation of all available historical and modern documents, this volume presents a thorough overview of the structure of Roman Siscia (modern day Sisak, Croatia) and provides a comprehensive starting point for all future work on the Roman city |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Croatia -- Sisak
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Maps
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| SUBJECT |
Siscia (Extinct city)
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Sisak -- Maps -- History
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| Subject |
Croatia -- Sisak
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789696240 |
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9781789696240 |
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