From concept to monument : time and costs of construction in the ancient world : papers in honour of Janet Delaine

From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet DeLaine’s seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the processes involved in creating ancient buildings. Her approach has provided important conceptual frameworks that have allowed scholars to understand Roman buildings in their proper social and economic contexts. The volume collects papers from an international conference held in Janet’s honour at Wolfson College, Oxford, in January 2020. The various contributions focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the effort needed in the different steps of architectural creation, such as the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and the construction processes on building sites. The papers not only cover a wide chronological and geographical area of the ancient world but also take up many of the themes explored by Janet throughout her career on Roman architecture, urbanism, building technologies, materials, and the principles of design. The wide range of papers reflects the scope and vibrancy of Janet’s scholarship on Roman architecture and her enormous contribution to the discipline. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents Page 5 Contributors 7 Preface. Visionary and Pragmatic: Studying the Nuts and Bolts of Roman Architecture 11 Simon J. Barker and Dominik Maschek 11 1. From Tenney Frank to Janet DeLaine: Roman Architecture and Economic History 19 Dominik Maschek 19 2. Beyond Labour Figures: The ‘Hidden’ Costs of Stoneworking and Their Application... 33 Simon J. Barker and Ben Russell 34 3. Reconstructing the Construction Process in Hispania: Epigraphy as a Source 61 Santiago Sánchez de la Parra-Pérez 61 4. Issues Arising from Inheritance Tax Applied to Testamentary Legacies: Legal Aspects of Estimating 79 Grzegorz Jan Blicharz 79 5. Demolitions, Collapses, and the Control of the Housing Market in Rome 98 Marguerite Ronin 98 6. Recursos, costes y ciclo productivo arquitectónico de Madīnat al-Zahrā’ 116 Eneko Lopez-Marigorta and Christopher Courault 117 7. How to Define the ‘Status’ of Stonemasons Employed in a Rock-Hewn Worksite in the Medieval Period 137 Anaïs Lamesa and Michael Gervers 138 8. The Energetics of Earth and Turf Construction in the Roman World 153 J. Riley Snyder, Ben Russell, Tanja Romankiewicz, Christopher T.S. Beckett 154 9. Quarrying Megaliths in Heliopolis (Baalbek, Lebanon): The Jupiter Temple 177 Jeanine Abdul Massih 177 10. Quarrying at Mons Claudianus: Costs and Time as Organisational Concerns (?) 197 Alfred M. Hirt 197 11. From Extraction to Transport: Technical and Management Aspects of Quarries of Building Stone 206 Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M. 206 12. L’evoluzione costruttiva della “parte alta” di Tarraco in epoca romana 233 Maria Serena Vinci 233 13. Labour and its Cost During the Aegean Late Bronze Age 251 Ann Brysbaert 251 14. Building Accounts, Monumental Construction Projects, and Labour Rates 284 Jari Pakkanen 284 15. On Toolmarks, Sequence of Carving, and Labour Quantification in Roman Stone Carving 304 Natalia Toma 304 16. Il Peristilio Inferiore della Domus Augustana sul Palatino: organizzazione del lavoro 315 Francesca Caprioli, Alessandro Mortera, Patrizio Pensabene, Javier Á. Domingo 316 17. Quantifying the Forum of Pompeii: Building Economics, Material, and Labour 350 Cathalin Recko 350 18. Pompeian Wall Painting in Figures: Labour and Materials 361 Francesca Bologna 361 19. The Amphitheatres of Regio X – Venetia et Histria: The Impact of Stone Supplying Cost 374 Caterina Previato 374 20. Templi romani giganteschi in Asia Minore: Problemi di costi e di finanziamento 390 Paolo Barresi 390 21. Diocletian’s Mausoleum in the Imperial Palace of Split: A Review of its Architecture 408 Javier Á. Domingo and Daniela Matetić Poljak 409 Back Cover 445 Energetical Architecture,Quantitative Studies,Economy,Time and Cost of Construction,Quarry,Labour Figure.