Artifacts from Ancient Rome: Daily Life through Artifacts
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Overview
When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society.
Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords “hands-on training” on how to approach primary sources.
The author—a historian also trained as an archaeologist—begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and “see” the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.
When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society.
Presents images of artifacts, relevant primary sources, and detailed explanations of each item’s historical context together in a single resource, making the information conveniently accessible to both students and general readers
Provides students with the opportunity to work with, analyze, and interpret both artifacts and primary sources, making the book an excellent complement to curricula that are increasing their focus on the use of primary sources of all types
Allows readers to piece together an overall impression of Roman life and society through artifacts that range from a legionary weapon and a medical scalpel to a wax tablet for writing, a bread oven, and a sundial
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How to Evaluate Artifacts
Chronology of Events
COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORD KEEPING
Abacus
Calendar
Graffiti
Inkwell
Seal Ring
Wax Tablet
COOKING AND FOOD
Amphora
Bread Oven
Cooking Pot
Dining Couch
ENTERTAINMENT
Dice and Tavern Game Board
Lyre
Mosaic of a Boxer
Theatrical Mask
Toys
GROOMING, CLOTHING, AND ACCESSORIES
Fibula
Perfume Bottle
Phalera
Portrait Bust
Razor
Sandals
Strigil
Toga Praetexta
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Cave Canem Mosaic
Drainpipes
Oil Lamp
Public Toilets
Sundial
RELIGION AND FUNERARY PRACTICES
Aedicule Memorial
Bulla
Catacombs
Curse Tablet
Lar
Sistrum
Votive Male Torso
TOOLS AND WEAPONS
Ballista
Coin Mold
Fasces
Gladius
Scales and Steelyard
Scalpels and Bronze Scissors
TRANSPORTATION
Farm Cart
Horse Bit
Milestone
Rostrum
Select Bibliography
Index
. . . Nicely put together, the reader will find this work, just one from the series, Daily Life through Artifacts, an absorbing work of reference that not only prompts further reading but interdisciplinary study. . . . [S]cholars, young and old, as well as the general reader, will find [it] as useful as it is accessible.
This is a good resource on the period for undergraduate-level readers.
[C]oncise writing, a comprehensive bibliography, and intriguing choices of artifacts. . . . Recommended for high school and college libraries, and university collections that serve students of ancient history.
- Title: Artifacts from Ancient Rome
- Author: James B. Tschen-Emmons
- Series: Daily Life through Artifacts
- Publisher: Greenwood
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 360
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216049760
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216049760
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:44:52Z
James B. Tschen Emmons, PhD, teaches history at North Idaho College and mythology at Northern Virginia Community College.