Table Of ContentHOUSING IN LATE ANTIQUITY
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LATE ANTIQUE
ARCHAEOLOGY
Editorial Board
SERIES EDITOR
LUKE LAVAN
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Albrecht Berger
William Bowden
Averil Cameron
Beatrice Caseau
James Crow
Simon Ellis
Sauro Gelichi
Lale Özgenel
Jean-Pierre Sodini
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Enrico Zanini
VOLUME 3.2 – 2005
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HOUSING
IN LATE ANTIQUITY
From Palaces to Shops
EDITED BY
LUKE LAVAN
LALE ÖZGENEL
and
ALEXANDER SARANTIS
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
SIMON ELLIS AND YURI MARANO
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami (Richard Bayliss).
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ............................................................................. ix
Acknowledgements ..................................................................... xv
Late Antique Housing and the Uses of Residential Buildings:
an Overview ............................................................................ 1
Simon Ellis
Bibliographic Essays
Housing in Late Antiquity: Thematic Perspectives ................... 25
Inge Uytterhoeven
Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives .................... 67
Inge Uytterhoeven
Episcopia
Domus in Qua Manebat Episcopus: Episcopal Residences in
Northern Italy during Late Antiquity (4th to 6th c. A.D.) .... 97
Yuri A. Marano
Architecture and Church Power in Late Antiquity:
Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia) ............................................. 131
Guliano Volpe
Episkopeia in Asia Minor ............................................................. 169
Burcu Ceylan
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Other Thematic Studies
Private Space in Late Antique Cities: Laws and Building
Procedures ............................................................................... 197
Isabella Baldini Lippolis
Public Use and Privacy in Late Antique Houses in Asia
Minor: the Architecture of Spatial Control ........................... 239
Lale Özgenel
Shedding Light on Late Roman Housing ................................. 283
Simon Ellis
Regional Studies
The Urban Domus in Late Antique Hispania: Examples
from Emerita, Barcino and Complutum ............................... 305
Javier Arce, Alexandra Chavarría and Gisela Ripoll
Late Antique Domus of Africa Proconsularis: Structural
and Decorative Aspects .......................................................... 337
Francesca Ghedini and Silvia Bullo
Domus and Villa: Late Antique Housing in Carthage and
its Territory ............................................................................. 367
Jeremy J. Rossiter
Cappadocia’s Rock-Cut Courtyard Complexes: a Case
Study for Domestic Architecture in Byzantium ..................... 393
Veronica Kalas
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Recently Investigated Urban Houses
A Late Roman House at Éauze (Cieutat), France ..................... 417
Simon Esmonde Cleary
The Palace of Theoderic at Ravenna: a New Analysis of
the Complex ........................................................................... 425
Andrea Augenti
The Triconch Palace at Butrint: the Life and Death of a
Late Roman Domus ............................................................... 455
William Bowden and John Mitchell
The House of the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos ....................... 475
Anne-Marie Manière-Lévêque
Two Late Antique Residential Complexes at Sagalassos .......... 495
Marc Waelkens et al.
The Excavation of an Umayyad Period House at Pella
in Jordan ................................................................................. 515
Alan Walmsley
Index ........................................................................................... 523
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LIST OF FIGURES
Ellis
Fig. 1. Sheikh Isa Bey House Bahrain: wind tower above reception
room.
Fig. 2. Khojo (Gaochang); example of mudbrick building.
Marano
Fig. 1. Aquileia, episcopal complex built by bishop Theodorus (attested
in A.D. 314) (AnTard 1996).
Fig. 2. Aquileia, episcopal complex in the second half of the 4th
century (Bertacchi 1980).
Fig. 3. Aquileia, episcopal complex in the second half of the 5th
century (Bertacchi 1980).
Fig. 4. Aquileia, episcopal residence in the second half of the 5th
century (Bertacchi 1980).
Fig. 5. Milan, episcopal complex: 1) baptistery of S. Stefano alle Fonti;
2) S. Maria Maggiore; 3) baptistery of S. Giovanni alle Fonti; 4)
S. Tecla; 5) three-apsed hall; 6) apsed hall underneath the medieval
Arcivescovado; 7) late antique residential complex (Lusuardi Siena
1997).
Fig. 6. Parenzo, episcopal complex (Chevalier and Matejoim 2004).
Fig. 7. Parenzo, episcopal residence—exterior (Matejoim 1995).
Fig. 8. Parenzo, episcopal residence—interior ( Matejoim 1995).
Fig. 9. Mliet, reconstruction of the Palace of the comes Pierius (™uroim
1996).
Fig. 10. Stobi, episcopal complex (Wiseman 1984).
Fig. 11. Justiniana Prima, a) episcopal residence; b) consignatorium; c)
princ ipia (Duval 1996).
Volpe
Fig. 1. Major late antique sites in Northern Apulia region (drawn by
A. V. Romano).
Fig. 2. Canosa. Aerial view of the Early Christian Saint Peter’s complex
(excavations 2001–2005; photo author and M. Attademo).
Fig. 3. Canosa. Plan of the Early Christian Saint Peter’s complex
(6th–7th c. A.D.) (excavations 2001–2005; drawn by G. De Felice,
N. Mangialardi).
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