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This long-awaited volume presents the work of Elizabeth Lyding Will on the important group of transport amphoras found at Cosa. This town has been widely recognized as a prototypical colony of the later Roman Republic and a source for trade with Gaul and Spain, so this publication of its finds has important implications for archaeologists and historians of the ancient world. Will's initial work was on Latin amphora-stamps in the eastern Mediterranean, and through the 1960s and 1970s she developed an amphora typology based on materials found in the region and at Cosa. What has not been appreciated is that this typology was not limited to stamped Republican amphoras but also included unstamped vessels, such as imperial Spanish, African, and eastern amphoras dating as late as the fifth century CE. This book shows that Will was far ahead of her time in documenting the Mediterranean trade in commodities carried in amphoras: her work not only provides a record of the amphoras found on the town-site of Cosa, but also includes a comparison between the finds from the port and the town. At the time of Will's death, her manuscript consisted of a typed catalogue of the amphora stamps from Cosa and an equal number of unstamped vessels, but was missing important elements. On the basis of extensive notes and photographs, Kathleen Warner Slane has reviewed and updated the manuscript, adding type descriptions and footnotes to materials that have appeared since Will's death as well as a framing introduction and conclusions. Appendices highlight an Augustan amphora dump on the Arx and add a catalogue of the Greek amphora stamps found at Cosa.

Amphoras --- Cosa (Extinct city)

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Cosa (Extinct city). --- Italy --- Antiquities.

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Cosa, a small Roman town, has been excavated since 1948 by the American Academy in Rome. This new volume presents the surviving sculpture and furniture in marble and other stones and examines their nature and uses. These artifacts provide an insight into not just life in a small Roman town but also its embellishment mainly from the late Republic and through the early Empire to the time of Hadrian. While public statuary is not well preserved, stone and marble material from the private sphere are well represented; domestic sculpture and furniture from the third century BCE to the first CE form by far the largest category of objects. The presence of these materials in both public and private spheres sheds light on the wealth of the town and individual families. The comparative briefness of Cosa's life means that this material is more easily comprehensible as a whole for the entire town as excavated, compared for instance to the much larger cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Sculpture, Roman --- Marble sculpture --- Furniture, Ancient --- Cosa (Extinct city) --- Antiquities. --- Sculpture --- Roman sculpture

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Pottery, Roman --- Romans --- Ansedonia --- Ansedonia (Italy) --- Cosa (Extinct city) --- Italy --- Italie --- Antiquities, Roman --- Antiquities, Roman --- Antiquités romaines

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Romans --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Ansedonia (Italy) --- Cosa (Extinct city) --- Italy --- Antiquities, Roman --- -Romans --- -Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- -Cosa (Extinct city) --- Cosa (Ancient city) --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Antiquities --- -Ansedonia (Italy) --- -Archaeological digs --- Ansedonia, Italy --- Ethnology --- Romans - Italy - Ansedonia --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Italy - Ansedonia --- Ansedonia (Italy) - Antiquities, Roman --- Italy - Antiquities, Roman --- Architecture, Roman --- Cities and towns, Ancient