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The term apotropaia is conventionally understood to refer to a specific type of protective magic in which an object possesses a supernatural ability to avert evil from its human users, the practice of which is generally assumed to be a...
Ancient Roman bath complexes, both public and private, have been the source of curiosity for centuries. Scholars have studied the architectural forms of baths around the Mediterranean, although focus in Italy has been primarily reserved...
Waterlessness and Rainwater Harvesting on a Monumental Scale: Largescale Non-Domestic Water Collection, Storage, and Control at Cosa in the Roman Republican and Imperial Periods
Cosa (modern Ansedonia, Italy), a Latin colony founded in 273 BCE on a waterless, calcareous, brecciated limestone hill in Etruria, depended solely on rainwater for its survival and as such the site is provisioned with dozens of features...
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