prytaneion function architectural form di miller stephen (18 risultati)

24.0 x 16.0cms 258pp b/w illusts very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper (name clipped endpaper) The Prytaneoin housed the hearth of Hestia and it was 'the state's home and architectural manifestation of its life'. This book assembles and analyses its function and form which helps archaeologists identify excavated structures.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with a slight crease. Text block firm and text clean and bright.Dust jacket has creasing to isnide front flap and a cou0ple of chips and little splits to back.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. 258 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 258pp. Very good hardcover cloth with fair, moderately torn and wrinkled dust-jacket. Pages clean, binding sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Lower corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 258 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st US Edition. "The Prytaneion was a structure central to the civic life of the ancient Greek city-state. In it was housed the hearth of Hestia with its eternal fire symbolizing the well-being of the state. To it were invited distinguished foreign visitors for meals; citizens who had performed some special service to the state were also entertained there. The prytaneion was the 'home' of the state and the architectural manifestation of its life. The obvious ubiquity and importance of the prytaneion in antiquity is not reflected in the pages of modern scholarship, largely because only two structures have been excavated that can be firmly so identified. In this book Mr. Miller seeks to define the functions and the architectural form of the prytaneion by assembling and analyzing historical and epigraphic references to it. His analysis yields explicit references to various architectural parts of the prytaneion as well as a definition of the function of the building from which other architectural elements can be extrapolated. It provides a set of architectural elements essential to any prytaneion and usable as criteria of identification for excavated structures. This book is intended to serve both as a reference work for those interested in ancient civic life and civic architecture and as a guide to investigators of ancient cities still to be excavated."-258p.+ Plates,.illus bibliography index. Book.

Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Copyright is 1978. 258 pages. Inked name at the top of the blank front free end leaf. Very light wear along the upper edge of the dust jacket. Jacket remains bright and clean, and is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Large octavo in red cloth in burgundy red dust jacket; plates: illus.; 258 pp., 25 cm. In English and Greek; warmly inscribed by author on front pastedown. Fine copy in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is edge worn with the most of it being at the spine ends with and along the top edge and top open corners; with small closed and open tears and chips; light shelfwear and soil from handling and use; o/w no major tears and DJ is solidly in one piece and still very attractive; clean is clean and free of fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and, with the exception of one accidentally dogearred page 227, free of creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is square; hinges are tight; a gently used copy. in very good dust-jacket.

Hardcover. 258pp. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form 0.99. Book.

xiv, 258p., b/w illus., dj, author's SIGNED presentation copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.20x6.14x0.65 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.20x6.14x0.98 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. ISBN 0520033167. Hardback. Very Good condition book, with slight dustsoiling to top edge of book, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 1978 First Edition hardcover of "The Prytaneion - Its Function and Architectural Form" , by Stephen G. Miller, as published by the University of California Press. The publisher identifies 1978 as the First Edition. From the dust-jacket write-up : |> The prytaneion was a structure central to the civic life of the ancient Greek city-state. In it was housed the hearth of Hestia with its eternal fire symbolizing the well-being of the state. To it were invited distinguished foreign visitors for meals; citizens who had performed some special service to the state were also entertained there. The prytaneion was the 'home' of the state, and the architectural manifestation of its life. ************************************* |> The obvious ubiquity and importance of the prytaneion in antiquity is not reflected in the pages of modern scholarship, largely because only two structures have been excavated that can be firmly so identified. In this book, Mr. Miller seeks to define the functions and the architectural form of the prytaneion by assembling and analyzing historical and epigraphic references to it. His analysis yields explicit references to various architectural parts of the prytaneion as well as a definition of the function of the building from which other architectural elements can be extrapolated. It provides a set of architectural elements essential to any prytaneion, and usable as criteria of identification for excavated structures.<| ********************************** TITLE : The Prytaneion - Its Function and Architectural Form / AUTHOR : Stephen G. Miller (Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology) / IMPRINT : University of California Press / PLACE : Berkeley / DATE : (1978) / EDITION : First Edition (As stated on the publisher's website) / STATUS : Publisher now offers only print-on-demand copies. / DETAILS : academic hardcover published for the trade; contains 52 halftone black-and-white photographs; has one map and 14 ground plans; has a Preface, an Introduction, a Site Bibliography, a Selected Bibliography, four Appendices, and two Indexes; xii + 258 pages; approximately 5 1/2" x 9 1/4" ; burgundy cloth-covered boards and spine, with silver gilt lettering on spine; decorated dust-jacket printed in pink and dark red with white lettering. *********************************** CONDITION BOOK : NEAR FINE DUST-JACKET : VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean, solid and attractive - with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Slight compression to foot of spine, else bright, clean and attractive with negligible signs of handling. // BINDING : Tight // INTERIOR : A trace of pencil erasure to the front free end-paper (likely dealer prices), else clean and free of marking. No underlining, no writing or marginalia, no signatures. // DUST-JACKET : Modest surface rub; a touch of wear to top edge, with one soft bump to top fore-edge corner of front panel - else clean and bright.