Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world /
| Основен автор: | Meiggs, Russell. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
1998.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction
- The nature of the evidence
- Mediterranean forests
- The cedars of Lebanon
- Bronze Age palaces and Homer
- Forests and fleets
- Timber for armies
- Athenian timber supplies
- The city of Rome's timber supplies
- Farms, parks, and gardens
- Furniture woods
- Woods for sculpture
- The timber trade
- Deforestation
- Appendices. Woods from Egypt in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ; Egyptian ash-wood ; Confusion of species: 1. Cedar and Juniper, 2. Cypress and Juniper in Hebrew and Assyrian texts, 3. Chestnut and Walnut, 4. Picea ; Temple Commissioners' accounts: 1. The Epidaurus accounts, 2. Temple accounts from Delphi, 3. The accounts of the Eleusinian Commissioners for 329/8 BC (IG2².1672), 4. The Delian accounts ; A royal tomb at Gordium ; The forests of south Italy ; Pitch ; Tall trees and long timbers ; Measures, coins, weights.