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‘Reading’ space in the houses of Pompeii's Regio VI - Mark Grahame, READING SPACE: SOCIAL INTERACTION AND IDENTITY IN THE HOUSES OF ROMAN POMPEII (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 886; Archaeopress, Oxford 2000). Pp. viii + 205, figs., tables. ISBN 1-84171-086-5.
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3 Almost all of his data are drawn from the ground plans of der Poel, H. Van and Halsted, B., Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum (Rome 1977-)Google Scholar. Little if any fieldwork was involved in collecting or interpreting the data. The most immediate objection to characterizing the domestic space of Pompeii by ground-plans is that they do not include the plans of upper floors. Grahame concedes that the results will not be perfect, but argues that the majority of discrete, permeable spaces in most houses were on the ground floor. The relative paucity of stairways suggests that the integration of the two floors was not great (41-42).
4 The raw data (ground-plans, access maps, and quantitative tables) are presented in full appendices.
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