Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World

by: Meiggs, R.

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Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world
Author:Russell Meiggs

This is the first comprehensive study of timber supply and demand in the Near East and the world of ancient Greece and Rome. Drawing from a wide range of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, Meiggs traces changing patterns in their historical setting, and examines the timber requirements of fleets and armies, building, agriculture, and sculpture and furniture. He also draws a tentative outline of the structure of the timber trade, with special emphasis on transport, and determines that the part played by Greece and Rome in deforestation has been greatly exaggerated.

Contents:
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

xviii, 553 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World

by: Meiggs, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780198148401 / 978-0-19-814840-1
• ISBN-03: 0198148402 / 0-19-814840-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982

Price: 145,00 EURO

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