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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    April 2012
    June 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511709289
    9781108013956
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709289
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.69kg, 432 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Art and Architecture
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Art and Architecture
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    Sir William Gell (1777–1836) was a British archaeologist known for his drawings of sites and objects of classical interest. Noting that from the beginning of the excavations at Pompeii in 1748 'to the present day, no [substantial] work has appeared in the English language upon the subject of its domestic antiquities', together with architect and fellow countryman John P. Gandy he first published Pompeiana to help detail important findings that had been made by the excavators in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. To this end they provide historical discussion, analysis, and over 75 plates illustrating various points of archaeological interest including, as their subtitle notes, 'the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii'. Pompeiana is an important work that helped open the excavations to English readers and created further awareness of the treasures of the doomed city, destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

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