Roman Museums: Selected Papers on Roman Art and Architecture

by Donald E. Strong

A posthumous selection of nineteen previously published papers which are divided into four thematic general papers; architectural studies; sculpture; acquisitions made by the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. An updated bibliography and notes have been added by Susan Walker who also made the selection.

Table of Contents


Preface by S. Walker
The Romans and Archaeology
Roman Museums
Late Hadrianic Architectural Ornaments in Rome
The Round Temple in the Forum Boarium
Some Early Examples of the Composite Capital
The Temple of Castor in the Forum Romanum
Some Observations on Early Roman Corinthian
The Administration of Public Building in Rome during the late Republic and early Empire
Some Unknown Classical Sculpture (Hever Castle)
The Head of an Old Woman
Septimius Severus at Lepcis Magna and Cyrene
Roman Sarcophagi in Anatolia
An Etruscan Ivory Band
A Group of Roman Stucco Reliefs
A Fragment of a Marble Relief
Two Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings of Antique Sculpture
Three Roman Silver Cups
A Greek Silver Head-Vase
A Lady Centaur
Additional Notes
Index.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Donald Emrys Strong (1927–1973) was a British archaeologist, historian, and museum curator.

Strong worked at the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum as Assistant Keeper & authored the museum's handbook on carved amber in 1966.
Strong was appointed the first Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London in 1968.

He died unexpectedly in Iznik, Turkey at age 46.