Gutenberg Open Science: Looking over the builders’ work : foreign architects, artisans, and marble at Meninx (Djerba)

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dc.contributor.author	Lipps, Johannes	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-27T12:39:27Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-04-27T12:39:27Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8827	-
dc.description.abstract	Throughout the second century AD, the civic centres of the wealthy coastal cities of Africa Proconsularis underwent deep-rooted changes. Up to this point local stone had been largely employed for their buildings, but from the Hadrianic period onwards there was an increasing use of marbles, which were imported with considerable efforts and at great expense. These marbles came primarily from Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, and brought with them new architectural concepts, as well as architects and artisans who have been generally identified as ‘Italian’ and ‘Eastern’ in past scholarship. This article will examine a temple, a structure presumed to be a portico, and a basilica from the harbour city of Meninx, located in southern Djerba (Tunisia). The exceptionally good preservation of these buildings’ architectural components and the documentation produced during their on-site recording in 2017–18 allow for a detailed understanding of their original building processes. This will show how mobile the building industry of the Roman Empire was during the second century AD, which in turn challenges any attempts of an overly schematic territorial placement of architectural concepts, building traditions, and the provenance of the artisans themselves.	de_DE
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	720 Architektur	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	720 Architecture	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	930 Alte Geschichte	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	930 History of ancient world	en_GB
dc.title	Looking over the builders’ work : foreign architects, artisans, and marble at Meninx (Djerba)	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8811	-
jgu.type.contenttype	Scientific article	de
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 07 Geschichts- u. Kulturwissensch.	de
jgu.organisation.number	7930	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Libyan Studies	de
jgu.journal.volume	53	de
jgu.pages.start	117	de
jgu.pages.end	128	de
jgu.publisher.year	2022	-
jgu.publisher.name	Cambridge University Press	de
jgu.publisher.place	Cambridge	de
jgu.publisher.issn	2052-6148	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	720	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	930	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1017/lis.2022.11	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
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