Subterranean Rome. Photographs by Mark E. Smith.

Ivana Della Portella

Published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, 2000

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Ivana Della Portella. Subterranean Rome. Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, 2000. Photographs by Mark E. Smith. [Originally published in Italian as Roma sotterranea, Arsenale Editrice, Venice, 1999.]
Hardcover with jacket. Condition: as new/as new. Large octavo (9.0"W x 10.25"H); 278 pp. First English language edition, first printing. Jacket illustration: Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus. White cloth binding; black lettering front cover and spine; dark blue endpapers. Abundantly illustrated with brilliant color photos of underground sites, architecture, sculpture, reliefs in stone and stucco, paintings, mosaics, inscriptions, etc. Also drawn plans, sections, and reconstructions of sites, buildings, necropoleis. Large plan of the city of Rome in color, with index to the sites and monuments documented in the text. Text includes Notes, Glossary, Essential Bibliography. *** From the jacket notes: "This is subterranean Rome. Though perhaps less magnificent or picturesque than the city above ground, it is equally-or even more-evocative and fascinating. Like a kind of Atlantis, it tells a story of ancient times. Here we find the mysterious temples dedicated to the cult of Mithras; nympheums, places of pleasure and physical and spiritual refreshment; columbaria with their astonishing funerary architecture; hypogeums and underground passages; urban and secular structures like the quarters of the Seventh Cohort of Guards; and the famous Golden House, the Domus Aurea. With evocative photographs this book reveals the hidden world of subterranean Rome.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subterranean Rome. Photographs by Mark E. Smith.
• Publisher: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology
  • Classical Studies
  • Roman History