A Mid-Republican House From Gabii
Rachel Opitz, Marcello Mogetta, and Nicola Terrenato, Editors
Written and crafted with Tyler Johnson, Antonio
F. Ferrandes, Laura Banducci, Francesca Alhaique, Laura Motta, Shannon
Ness, Jason Farr, Sam Lash, and Matt Naglak
The database portion of this project is free of charge, the publication is behind a paywall.
A Mid-Republican House from Gabii - Database
The first major publication from the international Gabii Project
Since 2009 the Gabii Project, an international archaeological
initiative led by Nicola Terrenato and the University of Michigan, has
been investigating the ancient Latin town of Gabii, which was both a
neighbor of, and a rival to, Rome in the first millennium BCE. The
trajectory of Gabii, from an Iron Age settlement to a flourishing
mid-Republican town to an Imperial agglomeration widely thought to be in
decline, provides a new perspective on the dynamics of settlement in
central Italy. This publication focuses on the construction,
inhabitation, and repurposing of a private home at Gabii, built in the
mid-Republican period. The remains of the house provide new information
on the architecture and organization of domestic space in this period,
adding to a limited corpus of well-dated examples. Importantly, the
house's micro-history sheds light on the tensions between private and
public development at Gabii as the town grew and reorganized itself in
the mid- to late-Republican period transition. Published in digital form
as a website backed up by a detailed database, the publication provides
a synthesis of the excavation results linked to the relevant spatial,
descriptive, and quantitative data.
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